MEDIA, Pa. – Terrie Wong, assistant professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State Brandywine, received a National Best (Published) Article Award and an International Top Faculty (Conference) Paper Award in 2023. Awarded in May and November, respectively, Wong noted how much she loves doing the work she does and said she was humbled to receive the awards.
“I am honored and humbled that my work received positive recognition this year,” Wong said. “These awards give me direction and purpose to know that I wrote things that resonate with people. I also feel like winning both national and international research awards allowed me to help put Brandywine on the map.”
The Top Faculty (Conference) Paper Award is an international-level award for original research, awarded by the Intercultural Communication Division of the International Communication Association, an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication. The co-authored conference paper was competitively peer-reviewed and recognized by other scholars as the top paper for the annual conference within the author's specialization in 2023.
To receive a Best Article Award from the National Communication Association, one’s research must first be rigorously peer-reviewed and then deemed suitable for publication. The published work is submitted to a second round of rigorous peer review before being awarded as the Top Publication of the Year by the author’s peers in their specialization and discipline. Senior scholars in each specialization recognize one journal article to represent the best work in their area for the year.