Graduate Programs in Communication and Information | The Graduate Program in Communication

Thank you for your interest in pursuing a graduate degree in communication at the University of Kentucky. I am thrilled to represent such a prestigious program! We are extremely proud of our faculty and students as their hard work and ingenuity have made our program one of the premier places to study in the nation. You will find we promote the pursuit of individual scholarly interests through collaboration with faculty members and colleagues across related disciplines. I welcome you to apply to the University of Kentucky and wish you the best with your graduate education!

Dr. Bobi Ivanov, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in Communication

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Application Deadline : January 5, 2018

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CONGRATULATIONS!

Sara Sheff was recently selected to participate in NCA's annual Doctoral Honors Seminars (DHS). The DHS bring together promising doctoral students and distringished faculty members from across the disciplne and around the nation to discuss current topics in Communication. The seminars are held annually at a selected host institution. Aproximately 30 doctoral students are chosen to participae based on submitted papers and recommendations from their advisors.

Audrey Smith Bachman has been awarded the 2017-2018 Dissertation Year Fellowship.

Audrey Smith Bachman (M.A., University of Kentucky) is a Doctoral Candidate and Instructor in the Department of Communication within the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky. Audrey is also a Master’s of Public Health Candidate in the College of Public Health focusing on Health Management and Policy. Audrey is experienced teaching health communication, interpersonal communication, patient-provider communication, and organizational communication at the undergraduate level. Health communication is her primary field of study, with a particular focus on community-based participatory research to develop communication strategies for public health interventions. Her scholarship includes several conference presentations and publications in Health Communication, Communication Research Reports, and the Journal of Communication in Healthcare.

Ted (Richard) Carter has been awarded the 2017-2018 R. Lewis Donohew Graduate Fellowship award.

Ted Carter, a native of Charlottesville, Virginia, received his Bachelors of Arts in Theatre Arts with a minor in Philosophy at the University of Richmond. After graduation he was commissioned into the U.S. Army where he served in several positions including Forward Commander of the 54th Mortuary Affairs Company in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. After four years, he was honorably discharged at the rank of Captain. Ted acted and choreographed stage fights at a variety of small professional theaters in Central Virginia before earning his Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Pedagogy with a specialty in Movement from Virginia Commonwealth University. He was then hired to start a new standardized patient program at the VCU School of Medicine which he went on to direct for six years. He currently lives in Louisville with his wife, Rachel, an assistant professor of Theatre at the University of Louisville.

Tara Watterson has been awarded the 2017-2018 Martha and Howard Sypher Memorial Graduate Scholarship.

Tara is an Instructor and Ph.D. student in the College of Communication and Information. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Applied Communication Research, and featured on Time.com and Daily Mail. Tara's research interests involve health communication during patient-provider interactions and decision-making regarding substance use/treatment. She completed her Master’s thesis, entitled University health provider perspectives on the communicative aspects of brief alcohol interventions, in 2015. Tara has taught courses in public speaking and interpersonal communication. She received both her Masters of Science and Bachelors of Arts from North Carolina State University.

Serena Daya has been awarded the 2017-2018 Carozza Graduate Fund for Excellence in Health Communication.

Serena is a PhD student specializing in Health Communication. She focuses primarily on message design and the practical application of communication theory into health care interventions. Serena feels privileged to be recognized for her work and is humbled by this honor. Serena would like to thank Dr. Nancy Harrington for her guidance and kindness, her friends for their support, and her parents and sister for always pushing her to be the best version of herself. Much love.

Thank you,

Serena

Lauren Roberson has been awarded the 2017-2018 Bruce H. Westley Memorial Scholarship.

Lauren Roberson is currently a teaching assistant in the department of Communication. She is a first-year doctoral student studying health and strategic communication. Lauren has a background in nutrition, receiving her Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at the University of Kentucky in 2012. Afterwards, she completed the Didactic program in Dietetics and graduated with a Master of Science degree in Dietetic Administration from the same department in 2014. She previously worked as a clinical dietitian at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, KY and as a research associate for Cooperative Extension. Lauren’s research interests include: health interventions, nutrition and aging, diabetes education and self-management, health campaigns and malnutrition to name a few. In her free time, Lauren enjoys playing with her pug and chug at the dog park, landscaping and listening to oldies.

Minhao Dai has been awarded the 2017-2018 Palmgreen Fellowship Fund.

Minhao is a doctoral candidate originally from Hunan, China. He received his B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in communication studies in 2011. He received his M.A. from Wake Forest University in Communication in 2014. His current research interests include understanding of sexual health behaviors, theoretical advancement of behavioral theories, and research methodologies. He currently teaches communication in small groups and introduction to health communication.

Will Silberman has been awarded the 2017-2018 Dorothy M. Carozza Memorial Fellowship.

Will is a PhD student originally from Los Angeles, CA. Will received his B.A. from the University of La Verne in Speech Communications in 2014. He received his his M.A. from San Diego State University in Communication in 2017, where he worked with Drs. Brian Spitzberg, Rachael A. Record, and Lourdes S. Martinez on various mixed-method research projects on anonymous social media (Reddit, Yik Yak) use, strategic persuasive communication strategies, threat assessment, and stalking analyses. His current research interests include persuasive communication, health communication, risk perception, media abuse, and privacy violations.

Application Deadline : January 5, 2018

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