Faculty News

Associate Professor Len Ackland said his most memorable experience last year was “to stand in the desert near Socorro, N.M., at the Trinity Site, where scientists exploded the first atomic bomb." More >>

Associate Professor Shu-Ling C. Berggreen taught a special-topics course on television and children, an area she continues to investigate. More >>

Associate Professor Andrew Calabrese is the founding and current book series editor for Critical Media Studies, published by Rowman & Littlefield. More >>

Assistant Research Professor Lynn Schofield Clark is directing a research project called ‘Teens and the New Media @ Home’ on the introduction of new media into the homes of disadvantaged young people. More >>

Instructor Doug Cosper traveled to Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala to lay the groundwork for expanding the Center for Environmental Journalism program into the developing world. More >>

Associate Professor Roslyn Dauber's documentary “Tibetan Women Refugees” was screened at three international film festivals this year – the Tahoe International Film Festival, the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto and the Moondance Film Festival in Boulder. More >>

Associate Professor Tom Duncan was elected president of the American Marketing Association’s Marketing Communication Division and head of the Academy of Marketing Science’s IMC Track at its national conference this spring. More >>

Associate Professor Bruce Henderson continued his work on new media and education with two outreach projects that involved six Colorado high schools and a middle school in Boulder. More >>

Assistant Professor Lee Hood is program chair for the Radio-TV Journalism division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. More >>

Professor Stewart M. Hoover has begun research, writing and lecturing on the interaction of media and religion in the 9/11 crisis and its aftermath. More >>

Assistant Professor Michael McDevitt received a three-year grant from the Knight Foundation to study the civic involvement of high school juniors and seniors in Colorado Springs. More >>

Associate Dean Meg Moritz received a grant to produce ‘Sacred Symbols, Sacred Trusts’ with Amy Echo-Hawk, who is in the master’s newsgathering program. More >>

Assistant Professor Elizabeth Skewes served as faculty adviser to the Association for Women in Communications, which re-established itself this year on the Boulder campus. More >>

Professor Michael Tracey produced a documentary for ITV, the biggest network in the United Kingdom, on the JonBenet Ramsey case. More >>

Professor Robert Trager taught Mass Media Law, Press and the Constitution and, as part of the campus undergraduate honors program, Freedom of Expression. More >>

Associate Professor Jan Whitt received three teaching awards: from the LEAD Alliance, a group of CU students of color; from the Committee on Learning and Academic Support; and from the CU Parents Association. More >>

Associate Professor Tom Yulsman worked with colleagues in the Carbon, Climate and Society Initiative to launch a two-semester, interdisciplinary class for graduate students. More >>