Current News
Department News 2010-2011
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Dept. of Communication Studies is hosting the College of Arts & Sciences' annual New TA Orientation on August 25th.
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Graduate Student (Minu Basnet) receives admission into a doctoral program at Central Michigan University.
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Graduate student (Kathryn Starkey) receives Chancellor’s Fellowship Award.
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The Debate Team continues to make strides as some of the Debaters placed in the National Top 10.
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Joe Gantt (Director of Forensic) receives Permanent Instructor Position in the Department.
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Six Department of Communication Studies' Faculty Members were inducted into Teaching Academy by the TTU Teaching Learning and Technology Center.
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Four Faculty Members received President’s Excellence in Teaching Award, which boasted one of the few Departments on Campus with more than three awardees (Drs. David Roach, Patrick Hughes, Bolanle Olaniran, and Katie Langford).
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Faculty members engages in service learning activities and four (Drs. Bolanle Olaniran, Katie Langford, Amy Heuman, and Narissra Punyanunt-Carter) received Faculty Fellow Award from the Texas Tech Teaching Learning and Technology Center.
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Narissra Punyanunt-Carter receives TTU Institute for Inclusive Excellence Award.
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Katie Langford received President’s Excellence in Teaching Award.
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Bolanle Olaniran was invited to participate in U. S. Marines Corps WRR Educators’ Leadership workshop in Quantico, VA.
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Amy Heuman went on Faculty development leave where she conducted her research in a border town.
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Katie Langford was inducted into Teaching Academy.
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Bolanle Olaniran conducted a seminal series on the role of culture in information technologies and globalization in Hong Kong University.
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Amy Heuman received TTU Institute for Inclusive Excellence Award.
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Patrick Hughes and colleagues from Engineering was awarded $1 million dollar grant.
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Amy Heuman teaches Public Speaking as community engagement and service learning to children in Guadalupe neighborhood of Lubbock.
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Juliann. Scholl spearhead other faculties (Patrick Hughes and Bolanle Olaniran) with an interdisciplinary NSF Stem Grant proposal with the Department of Mathematics.
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Mark Gring along with others received Grant to bring in a guest speaker for Iberian studies initiative.
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Juliann Scholl received TTU Institute for Inclusive Excellence Award.
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Bolanle Olaniran edited a book. Cases in successful E-Learning practices in the Developed and Developing world: Methods for the global information society, IGI Global (2010).
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Mark Gring was inducted into the Teaching Academy.
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Bolanle Olaniran is an associate editor of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education.