Communication Spotlight

Haoxiang “Edward” Liu (BA, Communication 2016, and Puksta Fellow) has now received four international awards for his cinematography for the short film Your Smile, shot in Beijing in 2018. Most recently, Haoxiang received the 2019 Around International Film Festival (ARFF) Barcelona Best Cinematography Award . Haoxiang has already received four...

Hamilton Bean, Communication Department Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, and Director of the International Studies Program, recently co-edited the ICA/Routledge Handbook of Communication and Security , with Bryan C. Taylor (Department of Communication, CU Boulder). The volume provides a comprehensive collection and synthesis of communication scholarship that engages...

Junior Achievement has a long standing partnership with the University of Colorado Denver, with many students volunteering in JA classrooms throughout the school year. Through their JA service learning program, CU Denver students get a taste of the lifelong impacts they can make in their communities. “We realized that you...

Communication Professor Sonja Foss was celebrated at the National Communication Association convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, on November 9, with a program, titled "Celebrating the Life and Career of Dr. Sonja K. Foss." Organized by Stephen Hartnett, the panel was: "to celebrate the 45-year-long career of Dr. Sonja K...

Sothary Chea, the Ethnic Studies department Program Assistant, was recognized as Rookie of the Year at the 2018 Denver Metro Admin Awards gala on October 9. Chea began her position in March 2018. In a few short months, she has transformed the culture of the Ethnic Studies department office by...

As of the Fall term, Stephen John Hartnett, Communication Professor, and the Department of Communication’s Democratic Communication Workshops program are running teams of volunteer teachers (BA, MA, and PhD students) into three Denver-area facilities: the CCC, DWCF, and Gilliam Youth Center. In line with that work, Communication is thrilled to...

On August 22, Hamilton Bean, Associate Professor of Communication, presented a "Summary of Research Findings Concerning Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)" at the National Academies of Sciences' Workshop in Washington, DC: Exploring Medical and Public Health Preparedness for a Nuclear Incident.

Communication Associate Professor CT Patrick Dodge and Professor Stephen Hartnett co-planned a summer international conference, the National Communication Association-Communication University of China Conference on "Communication, Media, & Governance in the Age of Globalization" with Zhi Li and Qingwen Dong at the Communication University of China in Beijing, June 20-23. The...

Assistant Professor of Communication Mia Fischer published "Queer and Feminist Approaches to Transgender Media Studies," in the Palgrave-McMillan book, Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research .

Communication Professor Stephen Hartnett and Chair Lisa Keranen delivered lecture/seminars at the Advanced Summer Institute on Media and Communication at SooChow University in Suzhou, China in late June. Hartnett spoke about Trump’s rhetoric and digital culture, as well as the networks of the Russian election interference campaign, and Lisa spoke...