A group of Prof. Kathryn Burak’s BU COM 201 students won the Grand Prize in the Screening for Mental Health PSA contest to encourage students to take an online screening for eating disorders. The winners included Corey Blumenthal (COM ’15), Ben Eisen (COM ’15), John-Michael Sedor (COM ’15), and Merry Lo (COM ’15). The Mental [...]

COM professors sought for commentary recently include: Judith Austin Associate Professor, Communication Boston Business Journal, Hill Holliday gears up to pitch BofA (1/20/12) Fred Bayles Associate Professor, Journalism International Business Times, Romney’s Health Care Views Different From Obama, Republicans Say: Poll (1/26/12) Tobe Berkovitz Associate Professor, Advertising The Hill, Confident Obama struts his stuff (1/26/12) [...]

The following papers were presented by CRC Researchers at the National Communication Association convention (New Orleans, LA): From Lumpy Rutherford to Nelson Muntz: A Content Analysis of Bullying in Sitcoms Patrice Oppliger Alexandra Sear The Violence Profile: Cable Programs James Shanahan David Blumberg Allyson Galle Joe Hamel Olivia Neir The Violence Profile: Alienation, Gloom and [...]

Dr. Mina Tsay will receive a Promising Professor award at this year’s Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication’s national conference in Denver this summer. The AEJMC Mass Communication & Society Division and Graduate Education Interest Group will honor the best and brightest teachers during the annual Promising Professor Awards Panel & Workshop on Friday, August 6, where Dr. Tsay will present her teaching philosophy and ways she actively incorporates it in the classroom.