TweetAfter more than 10 years as head of Purdue’s communication department, now the Brian Lamb School of Communication (BLSC), Professor Howard Sypher stepped down from that position in December, leaving a rich legacy and a model for future school heads to follow. On March 7 students, faculty, alumni and friends gathered to celebrate Sypher and [...]
TweetBrian Lamb School of Communication professor Krishnamurthy Sriramesh is concerned about how the culture of the eastern world is perceived and is working to shift cultural understandings. Sriramesh, who just finished his first year back at Purdue as a full professor, is recognized for his scholarship on global public relations and has been working to [...]
TweetFollowing the advice of Dr. Jeralyn “Jerri” Faris’ favorite quote by J.R.R. Tolkien – “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens” – Faris chooses not to back down from adversity, but instead embraces it. Faris, a continuing lecturer and assistant director of COM 114, has been working with the Tippecanoe County Jail [...]
TweetThe Brian Lamb School of Communication (BLSC) recently received an anonymous gift of $2 million, which will be leveraged with Purdue matching programs to provide $3 million to the school. The new funds will be used to create a C-SPAN chair endowment for a clinical professor in the BLSC with a specialization to include political [...]
TweetOn April 8-9, the Brian Lamb School of Communication (BLSC) in conjunction with the Cyber Center at Discovery Park hosted the First KredibleNet Workshop on computational social science, online community design, machine learning, and data mining. Twenty-eight faculty members from Purdue and other institutions around the world attended the event, along with a number of [...]
TweetRya Butterfield, visiting instructor, recently published a chapter in International Rhetoric Studies, Vol. 2, titled, “China’s Sophists, and the Development of Logic in China’s Rhetorical Culture.” Patrice Buzzanell received the Brian Lamb School of Communication’s 2013 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, the 2012 Paul Boase Prize for Scholarship from Ohio University, and the Teresa Award from [...]
TweetBeginning this fall the Brian Lamb School of Communication is receiving input from its first-ever advisory board. School Head Howard Sypher said the decision to create a school-wide advisory board was made both because it is a common practice in communication, journalism, and business schools, and because it is important for the school to get [...]
TweetThe Purdue Peace Project (PPP) is a College of Liberal Arts initiative begun in the Brian Lamb School of Communication to raise awareness, network with other peacekeeping and violence prevention organizations, and gather data to help build research in these areas. The PPP began in January 2012 and is funded by Purdue alum Milton Lauenstein, [...]
TweetIf a friend shared something personal but asked you not to tell, would you? That is what Purdue University assistant professor Maria Venetis would like to know. In her recently-published article, “‘You Can’t Tell Anyone But…’: Exploring the Use of Privacy Rules and Behaviors,” Venetis discusses the results of a three-part study she conducted concerning [...]
TweetThe Brian Lamb School of Communication welcomed an assistant professor this fall who wants to know what it really means to “Like” a corporation on Facebook. Brian Smith is new to Purdue this year, bringing his expertise with digital media to the classroom. Smith is particularly interested in social media and what it means in [...]