Kera Abraham has won a Center on Diversity and Community stipend for $1,000 for her master’s project proposal on the Arab voice for peace in American media. Abraham also won the Jack G. Shaheen Mass Communications Award, receiving a $1,000 stipend. The award was open to all Arab American students of communications and journalism and was sponsored by he American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Research Institute. She has also been invited to attend the ADC conference in Washington, D.C.

Marko Ala-Fossi and Al Stavitsky’s article, “Understanding IBOC: How to Make an Omelet Without Breaking the Eggs,” has been accepted by the Journal of Radio Studies.

Wendy Barger attended the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics conference in Charlotte, N.C., where she served as a judge for the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl and presented a paper. Barger also was invited to be a colloquium fellow for a project on ethics across the professions. Barger and Kumi Silva have completed their book chapter “Reviving a Culture - Debating Public Through Media Education” which will appear in the forthcoming book, Media Education as Pedagogy. Barger’s article “Moral Language in Newspaper Commentary: A Kohlbergian Analysis” appears in an upcoming Journal of Mass Media Ethics.

Chris Demaske has had an article based on her Ph.D. dissertation accepted in Communication Law and Policy.

Dennis Dunleavy’s photojournalism program at San Jose State placed second in the nation in Hearst Foundation Photojournalism competition. He also presented a paper at the BEA Conference on April 2003 in Las Vegas.

Michael Huntsberger was invited to present a paper at The Radio Conference–A Transnational Forum, in July 2003 in Madison, Wis.

Kristina Johnson won first place in Oregon Quarterly’s “Northwest Perspectives” essay contest. Johnson will receive $500, and her work will be published in the summer issue of OQ. The essay is about the fear and triumph of hiking across a glacier in the Three Sisters area.

Hillary Lake presented a paper at the ICA conference in San Diego, Calif., in May.

Micky Lee presented a paper at the symposium Information Society Visions and Governance: The World Summit on the Information Society and Beyond in May 2003 in Padova, Italy. Lee and Tad Odell filed a comment with the FCC in December 2002, expressing their views on the “2002 Biennial Regulatory Review of the Commission’s Broadcast Ownership Rules and Other Rules Adopted Pursuant to Section 202 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.”

Angela Mak’s paper was accepted for the Visual Communication Division of the AEJMC conference in Kansas City in July. It was also accepted for the Advertising and Consumer Psychology International Conference, Seoul, Korea, in June 2003. Another paper was accepted for the Society for Consumer Psychology National Conference, New Orleans, La., in February 2003. Mak was elected as vice president of the SOJC Graduate Student Association for the 2003-4 academic year.

Kim Mangun was awarded a Center on Diversity and Community Graduate Research Award for Summer 2003. The $1,000 stipend will be used to do research on Beatrice Morrow Cannady, an editor who worked for the black press in Portland. She also was awarded the UO’s Graduate Student Service Award at the May 17 annual Spring Family Weekend All-University Awards Luncheon. Kim was re-elected as president of the SOJC Graduate Student Association for the 2003-4 academic year. In November 2002, she had an op-ed piece on communication history in The Oregonian. She is also serving on the Convention Sites and Planning Committees for the American Journalism Historians Association.

Jane Marcellus accepted a tenure-line assistant professor position in the School of Journalism at Middle Tennessee State University. Marcellus also won the AEJMC History Division’s top student paper award for “Woman as Machine: Representation of Female Clerical Workers in Interwar Magazines.” She presented her paper at the AEJMC conference in Kansas City.

Gabriela Martinez has been awarded another Center on Diversity and Community grant for $1,000 to conduct research on her dissertation topic, which will focus on Telefonica ES, a fast-growing transnational communications conglomerate.

Randy Nichols presented a paper at the 2003 Annual Convention of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association in Albuquerque, N.M.

Chad Okrusch presented a paper at “Viscomm 17” in Sandpoint, Idaho. In addition, he taught “Lewis & Clark History” as a part of Montana Tech’s Upward Bound program. 

Christine Quail serves on the Union for Democratic Communications steering committee, is the new editor of Democratic Communique, UDC’s newsletter and helped plan the 2002 Union for Democratic Communications conference held in State College, Pa. In January 2003, she served as a reviewer for the Journal of Feminist Media Studies.

Before coming to the J-school, professional master's student Luis Salazar lived with two Latino rappers in New York, who he'd met in the early '90s in El Salvador. Douglas Dinamico and Cruz Control introduced Salazar, who is also Salvadoran, to the subculture of Latino hip hop in New York. Salazar returned in summer 2003 to interview and photograph these artists, and his work was displayed in Allen Hall during fall term. Photo: Luis Salazar

Kumi Silva presented a paper at the ICA conference in San Diego in May.

Tabitha Thompson’s essay, “A Body Politic,” appeared in Orion Online in November and December 2003.

Helena Vanhala presented a paper at the BEA Conference in April 2003 in Las Vegas.

This year's literary nonfiction graduate students - the seventh class to enter the School's highly respected program - gather for an orientation session atop Eugene's Spencer Butte. Clockwise from upper left: Seth Walker, director Lauren Kessler, Jes Burns, Caroline Cummins, Sarah Gianelli. The dog (Seth's), despite an impressive portfolio of work, was denied admission. Learn more about the program at lnf.uoregon.edu. Photo courtesy of Lauren Kessler