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The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University - Singapore, announces the following appointments and promotions:
Appointments:
Suwichit (Sean) Chaidaroon as Assistant Professor
Geogette Wang as Wee Kim Wee Professor
Vincent Mosco as Shaw Foundation Professor
Promotions:
Cherian George to Associate Professor
Wayne Fu to Associate Professor
CAT division chair S. Shyam Sundar, distinguished professor of communications and codirector of the Media Effects Research Laboratory at Penn State University, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the amount of $ 432,313 for his project entitled "Interface Interactivity and User Engagement: A Communications Perspective" (http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0916944).
James B. Weaver, III (Ph.D., Indiana University; MPH, Emory University), a Health Communication Specialist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, received the "Outstanding Health Marketing Scientist of the Year Award." Weaver was honored in a September 2009 awards ceremony. Weaver has also, along with Stephanie Sargent Weaver (PhD, U. of Alabama; MPH, Emory University) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, recently published three papers. The peer-reviewed work – produced in collaboration with colleagues at Andrews University, CDC, Emory University, and Scarborough Research – include:
Weaver, J. B., III, Mays, D., Linder, G., Ero?lu, D., Fridinger, F., & Bernhardt, J. M. (2009). Profiling characteristics of internet medical information users. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 16, 714-722. DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3150
Weaver, J. B., III, Mays, D., Kannenberg, W., Weaver, S. S., Hopkins, G. L., Ero?lu, D., & Bernhardt, J. M. (2009). Health-risk correlates of video-game playing among adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 37, 299-305. DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2009.06.014
Weaver, J. B., III, Thompson, N. J., Weaver, S. S., & Hopkins, G. L. (2009). Health care non-adherence decisions and internet health information. Computers in Human Behavior, 25, 1373-1380. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2009.05.011
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