Debra Hawhee and Jeremy Engels

Interim co-directors

Health Communication Doctoral Fellows Seminar

July 13-16, 2011, Denver, Colorado

Students completing their first or second years of doctoral coursework in departments or schools of communication, public health, or related fields are invited to apply to become a short-term Cancer Communication Doctoral Fellow.  Students interested in organizational and team communication, patient-physician interaction and shared decision making, intercultural communication, leader-member exchange, message tailoring, dissemination and diffusion and implementation of effective practices, systems science, and social ecological models of behavior change are especially encouraged to apply. 

Over a three-day immersion in Denver, fellows will learn about plausible topics that a fellow could later pursue for study in cancer communication research as it relates to healthcare organizations.  The objective of this program is for fellows to consider cancer communication topics as they plan their dissertation research.  This doctoral seminar is made possible with funding from the U.S. National Cancer Institute in an award to the Cancer Communication Research Center (http://www.crn-ccrc.org), an NCI-designated Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research. 

Fellows will be paired with and learn from seminar faculty about professional, regulatory, organizational, team, and individual factors that affect communication in healthcare organizations.  Seminar faculty will be healthcare providers, prevention specialists, information technology experts, operations leaders, and researchers in Kaiser Permanente, the largest nonprofit non-governmental healthcare system in the U.S.  Fellows and faculty will interact one on one in half-day shadowing as faculty go about their work, in seminar, and during social times.  The fellowship will pay travel-related costs of fellows including round trip flight to Denver, 3 nights hotel, and meals.  Fellows will receive a $1000 honorarium for a brief paper describing a research opportunity from their paradigmatic perspective based on what they have learned. 

Wednesday July 13^th fellows and seminar staff convene for dinner, orientation to the seminar, and assignment of fellows to faculty.  Thursday July 14^th fellows are taken to their faculty colleague's place of work, fellows accompany faculty to meetings, labs or clinics, offices, and any site visits that faculty have on their schedule for that morning, fellows ask questions throughout shadowing and have lunch with their faculty colleague, then fellows convene and with seminar staff leave as a group for field trip.  A group dinner for fellows, staff, and faculty finishes the day.  Friday July 15^th fellows report-out and discuss in full-day seminar what they have learned about communication in healthcare systems and how that may apply to cancer communication research.  Saturday July 16^th fellows convene in morning seminar to discuss the fit of research paradigms to the realities of healthcare organizations, and depart for the airport. 

Apply by sending (1) a cover letter of application with full contact information, (2) a letter of reference, (3) a one page statement of interest that identifies the applicant's research interests and what they would hope to learn, and (4) a vita.  Materials must be received by May 1, 2011.  Applicants will be notified by May 15.  Submit application materials to: sarah.madrid@kp.org.

Graduate Exhibition Performances

The State Theatre

7:00 pm

Sunday, March 27

Graduate Exhibition Posters and Visual Art

HUB-Robeson Center

11:00 am - Judging Begins

12:00 pm - Exhibition open to the public

COMMUNICATION ARTS & SCIENCES

Spring 2011 Colloquium Series

Douglas Kelley

Associate Professor

Communication

Arizona State University-West

Forgiveness:  Grounds for Reconciliation

"Forgiveness has been conceptualized as a form of positive communication designed to restore self or other well-being, relationship quality, and a sense of relationship moral order.  Central to much forgiveness theorizing is the notion that forgiveness is unconditional; yet, many laypersons report giving forgiveness with conditions.  In this light, I explore the nature of forgiveness, specifically as a means of pursuing interpersonal reconciliation."

Friday, April 1, 2010
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
117 Thomas Building
University Park Campus
Penn State University

GRADUATE EXHIBITION INFORMATION SESSION

*Sponsored by the Graduate Student Association* 

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011

5:15 P.M. - 6:15 P.M.

112 KERN BUILDING

An INFORMATION SESSION for all graduate students interested in entering this year's Graduate Exhibition will be held on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. in 112 Kern Graduate Building.  Students who are unable to attend may log on to the following website to view the video of the Information Session:

http://live.libraries.psu.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=3e9bf92b9b1143278cb44017682115a3

The Graduate Student Association will be providing pizza and soda refreshments  

Judges and award-winning entrants from previous years will be available to answer questions from their unique perspectives. 

There will be an opportunity to ask general questions about the Exhibition.

Dates for the Twenty-sixth Annual Graduate Exhibition are March 25 and 27, 2011.  The Performance Option will be held March 25 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.  The Poster Option and Visual Arts Option are scheduled for March 27, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (with the event open to the general public from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m.). 

All participants must register on-line to participate in the Exhibition.  Registration forms and guidelines can be found on The Graduate School's web site at http://www.gradsch.psu.edu/exhibition/.  All entries must be submitted online.  Applications will be available for submission online beginning January 3, 2011 and continue through 3:00 p.m. February 18, 2011.   

a hard copy of the application signed by the student's advisor, program chair or department head must be received by the office of the dean of the graduate school, 114 kern building by 5:00 p.m. on February 18, 2011

Assistant Professor Jeremy Engels is the author of Enemyship: Democracy and Counter-Revolution in the Early Republic (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010).

"The Declaration of Independence is usually celebrated as a radical document that inspired revolution in the English colonies, in France, and elsewhere. In Enemyship, however, Jeremy Engels views the Declaration as a rhetorical strategy that outlined wildly effective arguments justifying revolution against a colonial authority -- and then threatened political stability once independence was finally achieved. Enemyship examines what happened during the latter years of the Revolutionary War and in the immediate post- Revolutionary period, when the rhetorics and energies of revolution began to seem problematic to many wealthy and powerful Americans. To mitigate this threat, says Engels, the founders of the United States deployed the rhetorics of what he calls "enemyship," calling upon Americans to unite in opposition to their shared national enemies."

At its annual conference in San Francisco in November, the National Communication Association awarded Jennifer S. Priem (PhD Penn State 2008, Communication Arts & Sciences) the 2010 NCA Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for "The Illocutionary Force of Hurt and Support in Young Adult Romantic Relationships: Message Features, Message Perceptions, and Physiological Stress," which was directed by Professor and Associate Dean Denise Solomon. The award was one of three association-wide awards for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of communication. This year Jennifer is a postdoctoral fellow in Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas, Austin.