Doctoral student Wendy Barger's paper, "Moral Language in Newspaper Commentary: A Kohlbergian Analysis" won the Carol Burnett/AEJMC Prize for graduate student research at this summer's AEJMC conference.

Doctoral student Dennis Dunleavy will be joining the faculty at San Jose State University in the fall.

Literary nonfiction student Christina Eng sold a personal essay on the ways food cravings can dictate travel itineraries to Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine. "Bon Voyage, Bon Appetit," which started as an assignment for Lauren Kessler's class last year, appears in the May/June 2002 issue, on newsstands now. Eng's essay, "In My Mother's Kitchen," appeared on the front page of the food section of The Oakland Tribune, in Northern California. The essay looks at the connections between nourishment and affection, mother and daughter, kitchen and home.

Doctoral student Micky Lee received a Gary E. Smith Summer Grant of $3,000. Lee will be interning at UNESCO's Women in the Media Programme for 3 months this summer. She will present her paper, "A review of UNESCO's publications on women and communication from a post structural feminist perspective" at the IAMCR conference in Barcelona this July. Lee is co-editor of a Chinese publication called: Cultural Feeling 2: Sentiment, passion, obsession and others, a collection of student essays on Hong Kong popular culture.

Doctoral student Jane Marcellus' paper "Nervous Women and Noble Savages: The Romanticized Other in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Patent Medicine Advertising" was accepted to AEJMC. Marcellus also received a $2500 graduate research grant from the Center for the Study of Women in Society to work on her dissertation. The Journal of Communication Inquiry has accepted Marcellus' manuscript, "My Grandmother's Black-Market Birth Control: Subjugated Knowledge in the History of Contraceptive Discourse."

Doctoral student Chad Okrusch gave a presentation entitled "Bioregionalism and Organical Design: Using New Media to Communicate Toxic Landscapes" at the University's H.O.P.E.S. conference on sustainable design. Professors Bill Ryan and Carol Ann Bassett also presented at the conference. Okrusch's article, "Critically Engaging Environmental News" appeared in The Ecotone, an environmental studies journal. He also presented on "Critically Engaging News Coverage of the Klamath Water Wars" at the 2002 Environmental Science, Studies and Policy Joint Campus Conference at Oregon State University. This summer, Okrusch will teach an English literature course on Norman Maclean's novel, A River Runs Through It, while leading raft trips for Montana Tech's Upward Bound program.

Doctoral student Kumi Silva received a dissertation research grant of $2500 from the Center for the Study of Women in Society. Silva was also awarded a Graduate Research Award for $1500 from the Center on Diversity and Community (CODAC) for summer 2002.

Doctoral student Helena Vanhala has accepted a tenure-line assistant professor of communications position at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, beginning in fall, 2002.

Literary nonfiction student David Weiss has been accepted to three Communication Ph.D. programs. He will be attending the University of New Mexico in the fall. In June, Weiss was inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha, a national society honoring outstanding scholarly performance in journalism and mass communication.