Student Achievements

2003 Graduate Achievements

2004 Undergraduate Scholarship Awards

Melissa Meade has been named a 2003-4 Huckabay Fellowship winner. Her faculty mentors are Dean Susan Jeffords and professor David Silver. Congratulations. This is a highly competitive fellowship; there are just 9 Huckabays for next year.

Verena Hess spoke at the spring meeting on TA preparation sponsored by the Center for Instructional Development and Research. She was one of four graduate students from across campus who made presentations about their philosophy of teaching.

The first graduating class of the Department of Communication Digital Media program received a generous donation from Microsoft Corporation and The Seattle Times towards the cost of the students' graduation celebration. The Digital Media cohort, their family and friends, Digital Media faculty and staff celebrated in fine style at McCormick & Schmidt's Harborside on Lake Union.

Edit Manosevitch, Ph.D. Candidate, is the winner of the Dan David Prize
Scholarship, a prestigious $15,000 scholarship awarded in 2003 to a doctoral student in political communication.

The scholarship is awarded by the Dan David Foundation; doctoral students from the field of Print & Electronic Media from throughout the World competed for 5 scholarships awarded this year.

At the Educational Opportunity Program's (EOP) 33rd Annual EOP celebration on April 30, 2003, honored students that are first generation (first in their families to attend a four-year college), economically (low income), or educationally challenged.

The Department of Communication is proud to announce that four of our students are recipients of the EOP awards.

EOP 2003 Scholarship Award recipients:
Aderus Milan Communications/Drama
Tanisha Van Pelt Communications*
Tenika Versey Communications/Political Science
EOP Endowed Scholar
Trinh Duong Communications**

*Tanisha Van Pelt is a senior majoring in Communication. She is from a small island in Canada and moved to Seattle four years ago. She plans to pursue a career in public relations, event planning, and promotions, or marketing, depending on the opportunities available after graduation. She will be studying abroad this summer in Montpellier, France.

**Trinh Duong is a senior majoring in Communication and minoring in Political Science. She plans to work towards a Ph.D., focusing on interpersonal communication and culture or higher education administration. Trinh was also selected to receive the NSAP Scholarship, which she accepted at the NSAP conference in Alaska.

A piece of news from Digital Media: Jodi Davis the program's second cohort student, landed a prestigious internship at Real Networks, which has an outstanding program wherein corporate leaders work with interns (it is partly a recruiting system for them). Jodi will be a Web Specialist Intern, Strategic Relations involved in an extensive Branding and Links program targeting the top 300 sites with streaming media. She will be responsible for surveying a large and ever growing list of sites to monitor the following: streaming formats offered, versions of formats used, and ensuring the graphics and to download player links are correct.

Reid Christomos, an undergraduate in the department, had a contributed paper accepted at the Western States Communication Association Conference, which he delivered on February 18, 2003. The paper, titled "Concerning the Rhetoric of George W. Bush's Policy Shift," was in a panel sponsored by the Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group. Reid wrote the paper for Professor Leah Ceccarelli during the summer of 2002. He approached her with the idea of writing something about George W. Bush's anti-terrorism rhetoric. She met with him a few times to give him feedback on his writing, but he wrote the paper by himself and in his spare time (he did not ask for or receive class credit for it). A graduate student in the audience reported that Reid's paper was the best in the panel and the panel's official respondent said very good things about it. Professor Ceccarelli recognizes Reid's achievement and says "It's not often that an undergraduate has a sole-authored paper accepted for presentation at a convention, so I was very pleased at Reid's achievement."

2003 CICA Conference Papers

2002 NCA Conference Papers