Communication Spotlight

Communication Professor Sarah Fields was recently selected as a Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology (USA). Election into the Academy is a sign of the high esteem and respect your peers hold for your scholarship and leadership in the field. Congratulations on achieving one of the highest honors our...

As a former professor, International College Beijing Communications alum (BA, 2003) Ai Addyson-Zhang saw firsthand how a traditional school curriculum wasn't serving her students—who were terrified of failure, stressed, and lacking real-world skills. Addyson-Zhang shares how these observations, along with her own struggles as a student, inspired her to launch...

Hamilton Bean, Associate Professor of Communication, recently received the Sue DeWine Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for Mobile Technology and the Transformation of Public Alert and Warning (Praeger Security International) from the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, an award which will be conferred later this month at the...

Catalina de Onís, Assistant Professor of Communication, received the 2021 Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award in Environmental Communication, which will be conferred at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association in Seattle, WA, in November. de Onís’s book, Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico...

Communication Professor Sarah Fields was part of a team whose amicus legal brief in Alston v. NCAA helped change history for college athletes. That team recently received the Education Law Association’s August Steinhilber Award for the Best Legal Brief of the Year. The award committee wrote that the brief "was...

Professor of Communication Stephen J. Hartnett just published a new book, A World of Turmoil: The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War . The United States, the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife’s edge of war for more than seventy years...

Environmental Justice Is for You and Me is a Spanish-English-language bilingual children’s book that introduces young readers to the concept of justicia ambiental (environmental justice). This collaborative work includes the intergenerational energies of coauthors Assistant Professor of Communication Catalina de Onís, anthropologist Dr. Hilda Lloréns, her child Khalil, and student...

This magazine (representing a national coalition of educators, activists, and artists) flows from the Communication department’s work hosting educational workshops in Denver-area prisons and youth detention facilities. For this issue, Lecturer Ben Boyce also made a podcast featuring recordings of many of the pieces.

Instructor in Communication and the ESL Academy, Ali Nassiri has been selected as this year’s recipient of the 2020 Virginia French Allen Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Colorado Chapter of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (Tesol). This award honors a teacher who has excelled in...

Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge, Associate Professor CT in Communication and incoming President of the Association for Chinese Communication Studies (ACCS), has published his edited volume, Communication Convergence in Contemporary China: International Perspectives on Politics, Platforms, and Participation , with Michigan State University Press. The volume presents international perspectives on US–China relations...