First year grad student awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF
Mary Joyce, a first year graduate student in the M.A./Ph.D. track in the UW Communication Department, received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. With fewer of these awards being given every year, it is a generous source…
Undergrad Deanna Isaacs to shoot documentary
Learning about different cultures, English, writing, and science are all interests of journalism student Deanna Isaacs; and she found a way to bring them all together by producing documentaries. Isaacs began writing for The Daily after becoming a journalism major….
Alumna (PhD ’09) gives public lecture at UWF
University of West Florida: Deborah Bassett’s alma mater before earning a doctorate in communication from the UW, and the location of her first public lecture delivered on February 25. With an official title of the 2013 Jerry Maygarden Distinguished Lecture,…
Simmons O’Connor (’01) finds fulfillment in a career in nonprofits
Jennifer Simmons O’Connor (B.A., 2001) never saw herself living back in Issaquah, the town she grew up in, or having a long career working for nonprofits, but she has found a lifestyle. “I didn’t choose this career at all,” Simmons…
Getting to know Urban League CEO Pamela Banks
In December 2011, Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle was going through turmoil. Having suffered 18 months without a CEO, leadership was needed to right the course for the organization. Enter Pamela Banks (B.A., ’81). Banks heard about the opening for…
MCDM Program launches ‘Let’s Have Dinner and Talk about Death’ project
It sounds controversial, right? Well that’s kind of the point. The UW Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) program announced the official launch of Let’s Have Dinner and Talk about Death, “a project created to foster proactive and constructive…
Professor Joseph featured in Seattle Times column
Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large featured UW Communication Professor Ralina Joseph’s new book “Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial.” Discussing what he learned over coffee with Joseph, Large talks about what it means to…
