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Nord Scholarship Gives a Helping Hand to an International Communication Student Sep 30, 2020 UMass Amherst Communication major Wafi Habib received the 2020 Elaine E. Nord Scholarship. He spent the summer as a media intern on the #GreaterAs1 campaign with Church World Service, a non-profit organization focused on refugee resettlement. |
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Professor’s article in The Atlantic explores the news cycle's attention to Donald Trump and COVID-19, at the expense of other stories Sep 13, 2020 Ethan Zuckerman, public policy, communication and information, has written a column exploring how the focus of the news media has been centered on Donald Trump and COVID-19, to the exclusion of other critical domestic and international stories in the run-up to this fall’s election. |
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Comm Professor Selected as CESL Fellow Aug 10, 2020 Assistant Professor Weiai (Wayne) Xu has been selected as a Civic Engagement and Service Learning (CESL) Fellow for the 2020-21 academic year. |
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Researchers take a closer look at sitcom dad portrayals over the years Aug 7, 2020 New research by Communication Professor and Chair Erica Scharrer, along with current and former doctoral students, explores why sitcom fathers have continually been portrayed as inept. Scharrer studies gender and the media, and specializes in depictions of masculinity. In a new study, Scharrer and co-authors systematically looked at the ways in which portrayals of sitcom fathers have and haven’t changed. |
- Nord Scholarship Gives a Helping Hand to an International Communication Student
- Professor’s article in The Atlantic explores the news cycle's attention to Donald Trump and COVID-19, at the expense of other stories
- Comm Professor Selected as CESL Fellow
- Researchers take a closer look at sitcom dad portrayals over the years
