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Communication

Faith Otchere Awarded 2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr. Otchere, May 2025 COMM PhD graduate!

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May 12, 2025 Communication

COMM Department 2025 Award Winners

Congratulations to this year's departmental award winners!

May 08, 2025 Communication

Dept. of Communication's Graduate Program wins Award for Graduate Student Mentorship

We are very proud of our Graduate Program!
April 21, 2025 Communication

Dr. Kang Namkoong wins Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award for 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Kang Namkoong!
April 16, 2025 Communication

You've Got i-Mail: Olivia Click

Feature on Olivia Click for "You've Got i-Mail!"
April 02, 2025 Communication

Dr. Catherine Knight Steele wins 2025 Maryland Research Excellence Award

Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Knight Steele!

March 12, 2025 Communication

17th Annual Grunig Lecture

Dr. Krishnamurthy Sriramesh presents "Culture and Public Relations: A Global Program of Research"

March 06, 2025 Communication

COMM members win Faculty-Student Research Awards (FSRA)!

Congratulations to Drs. Sahar Khamis and Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour, and Ph.D. Students Felicity Dogbatse and Anani Yao Kuwornu!
February 12, 2025 Communication

"Technoskepticism" book featuring Drs. Catherine Knight Steele and Rianna Walcott now published

Check out the new publication from the DISCO Network!

January 30, 2025 Communication

Dr. Hailey Otis wins 2025 Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Award from UMD

Congratulations to Dr. Otis!

Washington Post January 29, 2021

Time to Double or Upgrade Masks as Coronavirus Variants Emerge, Experts Say

Better face coverings are needed to curb more-transmissible strains as vaccine rollout is underway, they say.
Politico January 30, 2020

Donald Trump Is Not a Doctor. But He Plays One on Twitter.

And that’s a prescription for public health confusion.
Maryland Today March 04, 2019

Celebration Honors Scholarship, Research Excellence

Inaugural campus event recognizes high-impact achievements.

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Dr. Carly Woods Selected as a Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award Winner

May 01, 2023 Communication

Congratulations to Professor Woods!

BCaT Lab Hosts "The Promise of Black Data Storytelling"

April 05, 2023 Communication

Dr. Kenton Rambsy visits UMD

Remembering Dr. Misti Yang

March 30, 2023 Communication

Misti Yang, February 23, 1979 - March 23, 2023

COMM in Other Cities: LA Networking Event

March 30, 2023 Communication

Undergrads met alumni working in Los Angeles, plus San Francisco and San Diego, during this special virtual networking event!

2023 Speed Mentoring Event Recap

March 16, 2023 Communication

Speed Mentoring Held In-Person For the First Time Since 2019!

Department of Communiction Presents 15th Annual Grunig Lecture

March 15, 2023 Communication

University of Houston Professor and UMD Ph.D. COMM alumni, Dr. Lan Ni presented her research and findings.

COMM faculty receive a $500,000 UMD Grand Challenges Impact Award to launch the Pandemic Preparedness Initiative (PPI)

February 23, 2023 Communication

Department of Communication Professor Brooke Liu leads the new PPI
Associated Press

Biden’s Empathy Shapes Policy, But Some Voters Don’t Feel It

February 17, 2023 Communication

Professor of Communication Shawn Parry-Giles quoted in Associated Press feature.

ARHU Faculty Awarded Grand Challenges Grants

February 16, 2023 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Linguistics, American Studies, Communication, Philosophy, School of Music, English, History, National Foreign Language Center

The grants fund $30 million to UMD faculty focused on groundbreaking, impactful research that will shape the future of our community, state, nation and world.