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This week, the National Communication Association (NCA) will honor Professor Lawrence R. Frey with the Distinguished Scholar Award, which recognizes NCA members for a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the study of human communication.

As the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches and airwaves begin to fill with stories of distant battles won and the brave men who fought them, Kathleen M. Ryan, a documentary filmmaker and associate professor of journalism, is focused on the veteran women who helped make those victories possible.

The National Communication Association recently recognized the work of four Department of Communication faculty with national awards.

Faculty and students affiliated with the Department of Information Science will be presenting work at the CSCW 2019 conference, the premier venue for research on computer-supported cooperative work and social computing.

The Department of Information Science has recently earned several grants and awards from organizations both on and off campus.

William Aspray and James Cortada just published their book, "From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking" (Springer).PhD students Anthony Pinter, Aaron Jiang, Katie Gach, and Jim Dykes, along with Melanie Sidwell (Media Studies) and Prof. Jed

Prof. Robin Burke was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for the project "Realizing Fairness in Recommender Systems: Intersectionality, Tools, Explanation". The project will study how concepts of fairness developed for

Roberto Azarettorecently received a PhD in music composition from SUNY in Buffalo, New York. Two of his works have been performed in Buffalo this year: Eigengrau, for four instruments, was premiered in April by the Australian Ensemble Elision and

Associate Professor Reece Auguistepresented a paper on African archives and multimedia arts, and conducted a seminar on the essay film and African documentary practice at the University of Witwatersrand's RE-Framing Africa: Restructuring the Self

Assistant Professor Stephanie Spray is in postproduction for her film Edge of Time, which won a Sundance Institute and Science Sandbox grant. She is in production for another film, Patagonia Park, which won a Catapult Film Fund grant. She also