Instructional & Developmental Communication
Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to serve as a reviewer for the Montreal conference. We appreciate your help!
At this time, I would like to announce that we are accepting nominations for our division's Outstanding Dissertation Award. All dissertations completed during the three previous calendar years (2005, 2006, 2007) will be eligible for this award. MA Theses will not be considered. The content of the dissertation should pertain to instructional and/or developmental communication. Nominations can be made by advisors or members of the dissertation committee. Dissertations cannot be self-nominated or nominated by a non-dissertation committee member (e.g., faculty members at the original institution or at the nominee's new institution, fans in the field, etc.) Once nominated, a dissertation does not need to be re-nominated; it will remain "active" for up to the entire three year period. Once a dissertation wins the award, it is removed from the pool of eligibility.
All submissions must be postmarked by January 1, 2008. Submit the dissertation, together with a letter of recommendation, to the chair of the dissertation award committee. This should be done on CD-rom and mailed to:
Daniel Cochece Davis, Ph.D.
Communication Dept.
School of Communication & the Arts
Marist College
3399 North Road, LT-213
Poughkeepsie, NY
12601-1387
(845) 575-3000, ext. 2878
In addition, an email with attachment should be sent to Cochece.Davis@Marist.edu.
Also, keep in mind that nominations for the Graduate Student Teaching Award will be due in the spring and presented during the Montreal conference. So, now is the time to start thinking about which graduate student you would like to nominate for this award. More information about this award will be available in a future ICA newsletter.
Finally, I would like to announce that a new interest group that is relevant to many of our current members has been officially approved by ICA. The special interest group is called "Children, Adolescents, and the Media" (CAM). This group strives to be a fruitful intellectual forum for academics from all over the world who study the role of media in the lives of children and young people. You can read a more detailed description of the interest group on the ICA webpage (under "Section Info"). In addition, Patti Valkenburg has written a piece in this newsletter where she discusses the group in more detail. This interest group is now accepting members - so keep it in mind as you renew your ICA membership this year.
Amy Nathanson, Chair
Nathanson.7@osu.edu
