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Suopis headshot Cynthia Suopis gift to support Communication graduate students' research and professional development
Mar 22, 2023

Cynthia A. Suopis, Senior Lecturer Emerita in UWW, has given a generous gift to support Communication graduate students' research and professional development. Two doctoral students will be selected and each recipient may use the fellowship of up to $5,000 for travel, conference fees, teaching, or any expenses that support the student’s professional activities to complete their doctoral degree. Special consideration is given to those working in the Health Communication field.

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Jonathan Corpus Ong & Wayne Xu Lead Network Grant on Disinformation in the Global South
Mar 10, 2023

Jonathan Corpus Ong, associate professor of communication, is the recipient of new $365,000 “Global Democracy Frontliners” grant from Luminate Group and their Reset initiative. The grant supports applied research, academic-and-civil society partnerships, and South-to-South knowledge exchange spaces addressing disinformation and digital hate.

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Martha Fuentes-Bautista Prof. Martha Fuentes-Bautista has been selected as 2022-2023 ADVANCE Faculty Fellow
Sep 19, 2022

Prof. Martha Fuentes-Bautista has been selected as 2022-2023 ADVANCE Faculty Fellow. ADVANCE Fellows "partner with UMass ADVANCE to promote gender and racial equity for faculty at UMass. Through a combination of research, programming, and practices, UMass ADVANCE seeks to understand systemic and intersectional inequalities at UMass and to lay the groundwork for a fairer, more equitable, diverse, and inclusive campus. Faculty Fellows provide recommendations and feedback to the team about ADVANCE programming and liaise with their departments to promote the ADVANCE program.

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Alena Vasilyeva Congratulations to Prof. Alena Vasilyeva
Sep 14, 2022

Prof. Alena Vasilyeva has received a 2022 Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship to work on the project "Exploring Communication, Culture, and Language Ideologies in Argentina." The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation is a charitable trust fund established under the will of Jasper Whiting. The Foundation Fellowship enables its recipients to conduct teaching-related projects abroad. Alena will travel to Argentina to study the language policies and practices in this country, as well as the interconnection between language, identities, and language ideologies.   

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