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Christopher E. Beaudoin, Tulane U School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, was recently awarded the Usdin Family Professor of Community Health Sciences endowed professorship. Beaudoin joined the Tulane faculty on July 1, 2005. His program of research is on health communication, social determinants of public health, and health information disparities.
Beaudoin also recently received funding for two research studies related to the mass media, social capital, and public health. The grants were for $500,000 from the Gates Foundation and $186,408 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (December 13, 2006 edition) featured research by Lynn Schofield Clark, U of Denver and Chair of ICA’s Popular Communication Division. The article highlighted a special forum on “Popular Music, Religion, and Globalization” Clark guest edited, as well as an essay she wrote, for the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Her most recent book, an edited collection titled, Religion, Media, and the Marketplace, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2007.
Three student chapters of the Public Relations Student Society of America, (PRSSA) and their faculty advisers received the first Ethics Advocacy Program awards at the November 2006 Conference of PRSSA. The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations at The University of Alabama sponsored the program and awards. The winning PRSSA chapters and advisers are:
- First Place – Illinois State University Chapter ($1,000) and adviser, Tomasz Feduick ($250).
- Second Place – Belmont University Chapter ($750) and adviser, Dr. Bonnie Riechert, APR ($150).
- Third Place – University of Nebraska/Omaha Chapter ($500) and adviser, Karen Weber ($100).
Angela Schorr & Stefan Seltmann (Eds.) announce the November 2006 publication of their new book, Changing Media Markets in Europe and Abroad. New Ways of Handling Information and Entertainment Content (Pabst Science Publishers). It is the first volume Series on International Media Research.
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