TweetPrinceton professor Cornel West believes racism still matters in the United States and is more prevalent than most Americans want to accept. West, a famous American philosopher, author and activist, spoke to an audience of more than 2,000 students, faculty, staff, and community members at Purdue on April 12, arguing that white supremacy continues to [...]
TweetLike many students in foreign language courses, Lisa Guntzviller, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Brian Lamb School of Communication, had anxiety about speaking Spanish in class. This anxiety became the springboard for the focus of her research in language brokering and patient-provider communication. “I took Spanish all throughout high school and college,” Guntzviller said. [...]
TweetStudying abroad is not just for undergraduate students. Currently, two Purdue graduate students, Elizabeth Wilhoit and Ziyu Long, are living abroad, participating in the Copenhagen Business School exchange program. The Copenhagen Business School (CBS) is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. CBS hosts a specifically designed exchange program for graduate students in the Brian Lamb School of [...]
TweetThe sense of equality displayed between professors and students is an opportunity that an international exchange graduate student gets to experience while participating in the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Exchange International University Program. The CBS is one of the largest business schools in northern Europe with a diverse student body that favors strong links between [...]
TweetTo work in a sustainable or “green” job means more than just worrying about the environment, according to new organizational communication research. The research conducted by Rahul Mitra, a doctorate student studying organizational communication, describes sustainability in organizations as bringing units together financially, socially and environmentally. Sustainability is a new industry that is gaining steam [...]
TweetMelissa Carrion received a year-long Purdue Research Foundation grant to support her dissertation research. Erin Doss received the Purdue Graduate School’s Excellence in Teaching Award – the highest award the university presents in recognition of outstanding graduate student teachers, which comes with a $500 award. Patricia Gettings and Felicia Roberts (along with co-authors Laura Torbeck [...]
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 Brian Lamb School of Communication is proposing a new online graduate certificate in strategic communication management. Strategic communication has become a popular term over the past two decades, drawing together public affairs, integrated marketing communication, public relations and applied persuasion. BLSC Director of Graduate Studies Stacey Connaughton said the goal of offering the online [...]
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, [...]
TweetA Purdue University doctoral candidate had a unique opportunity to participate in a teaching exchange this summer with the Copenhagen Business School. Abigail King, Ph.D. candidate in organizational communication, described her experience in the beautiful city of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her teaching exchange program was the first of many planned for the future, as the program [...]