With the holiday season upon us, the discourse around food becomes commonplace as families and friends converse about and over meals. Based on her Food, Culture and Comm course, we spoke with Debi Iba, Ph.D., about how food is both a product of culture and a culture producer. From our conversation, we came up with… Read more »
The Department of Communication Studies celebrated its Gorvetzian Family Speaker Series with alumnus Clint Sanders ’07. A generous gift from Ken and Lori Gorvetzian brings TCU communication studies alumni to campus to share how they use communication knowledge in their career. Sanders was scheduled to speak in March 2020, but the event was canceled due… Read more »
The Department of Communication Studies welcomes Clint Sanders ’07 as the guest for the 2022 Gorvetzian Family Speaker Series for Communication Studies. Sanders was scheduled to speak in 2020, but due to the pandemic, the event was canceled. Sanders is currently the Senior Director for Support Services at Texas Health Southwest in Fort Worth. The… Read more »
It’s back to the battle for Carrie Moore and her students. Senior Lily Gould, a communication studies major from Lake Forest, Ill., and Hailey Janysek, a communication studies and criminal justice major from La Vernia, Texas, will compete Feb. 25 at the 97th annual Oratorical Contest of the Battle of Flowers. Moore, a communication studies instructor,… Read more »
Students in two of instructor Carrie Moore’s Communication Studies classes this fall are traveling to London once a week – virtually, that is! Each Wednesday, students in her 8 a.m. Communicating Effectively and 9 a.m. Parliamentary Debate classes connect live with individuals in the United Kingdom. “I came up with this idea of a ‘virtual… Read more »
Jie Zhuang, assistant professor of communication studies, received an inaugural TCU Invests In Scholarship grant to fund research on coronavirus vaccine hesitance. Dr. Zhuang will begin her project in summer 2021. Black Americans and African Americans have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, suffering higher rates of infection, hospitalization and deaths in comparison to other groups… Read more »
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely alter many Americans’ plans for the holidays this year, causing some people to remain isolated when they are used to being together with friends and family. Guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advise celebrating with individuals in one’s household and avoid gathering in large groups. Therefore, many… Read more »
Hometown: Sachse, Texas My degree: Communication Studies My favorite class or professor in the Schieffer College: My favorite class was Communication Theory and was taught by my favorite professor Candy Yang. It is the class that made me want to be a Communication Studies major. Professor Yang later became my research mentor. What I’m doing… Read more »
After 10 years of teaching in the Schieffer College, instructor Carrie Moore says teaching her Advanced Public Speaking course this fall is like being the choreographer, director, producer and cinematographer of an event every time she steps into her classroom. That’s because some of her students are learning from Moore in the physical classroom, while others… Read more »
By Margaux Nersesian, Strategic Communication major, Class of 2021 Student Laine Zizka has turned her passion for musicals into a thought-provoking research project for her master’s degree in Communication Studies at the Bob Schieffer College of Communication. Inspired by her childhood memories of her family’s love of musicals, Zizka says she “never passed up an… Read more »
