Professor Joyce Wang has been awarded a $398,638 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to develop applications of quantum probability theory to better understand and design human-machine communication networks.
Over the next three years, Wang will investigate how the structure of communication networks and information flows can impact communication effects.
Congratulations, professor Wang!
The School of Communication is proud to honor more than 40 students with awards and scholarships for the 2019-2020 school year. We sincerely regret that we were not able to celebrate this achievement with students and their families in person, but it does not make the honors any less of an achievement. The School is greatly honored by students' outstanding hard work, personally and academically.
See below for a complete list of award winners.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Lanier Holt, who received the Alumni Award for Distinguished teaching, Ohio State’s most prestigious teaching award. Ten selections from Ohio State’s 3,000 faculty members are made each year.
During a Zoom faculty meeting, Holt was surprised by Provost Bruce McPheron, Vice Provost for Academic Policy and Faculty Resources Heather Malone, Arts and Sciences Executive Dean Gretchen Ritter, and Social and Behavioral Sciences Divisional Dean Morton O’Kelly.
Professor Zheng Joyce Wang has been named a Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow for 2020. Wang will receive the title, recognition and a cash award to further her research for the next three years.
Each year, Ohio State Social and Behavioral Sciences awards up to three fellowships to full professors nominated by department chairs and school directors. Fellows are recognized for their excellence in scholarship and are chosen by the Divisional Dean and other Social and Behavioral Sciences chairs and directors.
Congratulations to James Bonus and Judy Watts, who received the top paper award from the Children, Adolescents, and Media division of the International Communication Association.
Their paper, “You can[’t] catch the sun in a net!”: Children’s misinterpretations of educational science television, was a committee selection. Bonus and Watts will be honored at ICA's annual conference in May.
Congratulations to professor Kelly Garrett, who received the 2019 Mattox Award for Research.
Garrett was acknowledged for six important publications in 2019; his work was featured in the Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Science Communication, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and others.
Associate professors Felecia Ross and Susan Kline won the "Top Overall Paper Award" in the African American Communication and Culture Division of the National Communication Association for their analysis of newspaper coverage of the black church in the Obama-Wright controversy.
