Students innovate for WSDOT
The Washington State Department of Transportation has UW students to thank for putting together some ideas that could possibly be implemented for WSDOT in the future. Friday, June 8, three teams of students came together in the Communication building to…
Students study public discourse on Occupy
Communication students in lecturer Amoshaun Toft‘s Qualitative Inquiry and Discourse classes have worked all Spring quarter to produce the website, ‘Change the Discourse’, focusing on how the public talks about the Occupy movement. According to the website, “Change the Discourse…
Department celebrates 2011-12 graduates
During the Department of Communication Graduation Celebration, hundreds of students walked across the stage despite the pouring rain, received warmly by family and friends watching them in the Quad. Graduates from Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Spring 2012 and Summer 2012…
Department celebrates award-winning students in ceremony
Last week students, parents, faculty, alumni and staff gathered to celebrate dozens of students who have earned scholarships and awards. The event included awards for the Foreign Intrigue and Olympia reporting programs, recognition of undergraduate research, a public speaking contest,…
Calling all graduating students!
Calling all graduating students! Spring quarter is almost through, and that means it’s time to register to walk in the Department of Communication Graduation Celebration. Our graduation will be held on Thursday, June 7, from 1-3pm in the UW Quad….
Communication undergrads strengthen research
By Evan Yang – A recent decision to add communication students Claire Palay, Chad Robischon, and Jessica Naluai to a directed research course that usually only includes architecture and construction management students has turned up positive results. Assistant professor in…
Fiore-Silfvast innovates on information
Last December, Communication graduate student Brittany Fiore-Silfvast won a Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant from the National Science Foundation for her proposal, “The Informationalization of Healthcare: Shifting Subjectivities, Organizational Forms, and Ways of Knowing in the U.S. and India.” Last year, she traveled…
