The 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference was held in Toronto, Canada May 25-29. Nearly 50 Ohio State students and faculty members attended, with many presenting and receiving awards and recognitions.

The event invited communication scholars to examine how authenticity has become a variable, rather than a constant, in public discourses and popular culture across the globe.

• PhD Candidate Elizabeth Riggs presented the paper “The Impact of Cognitive Load on Recognition for Health Narrative Information” in the Communication Science and Biology interest group. Riggs was the lead-author along with Associate Professor Hillary Shulman and Assistant Professor Teresa Lynch and external collaborators Richard Huskey, Jacob Fisher and Stefanie Mutialu. The authors won a top paper award.
• Associate Professor Felecia Ross presented her paper, "Black Newspapers' Reflections of the Civil War During the Age of Booker T. Washington” in the Communication History interest group.
• PhD student Jiaqi Qin and Associate Professor Jingbo Meng won the Top Poster Award for “Temporal Collective Legitimacy of Support Seeking and Received Social Support on Social Media During a Public Health Crisis.”
• The paper “Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication” lead authored by Associate Professor Jesse Fox and coauthored by Assistant Professor Teresa Lynch won the ICA Outstanding Article Award.
• Professor Amy Nathanson was elected a fellow of the International Communication Association, an honor bestowed on only about 5% of the membership.