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Department News

Nan Publishes New Study of HPV Messages

Article appears in HCR. Read more…

Alumni Social Media Event Featured on YouTube—Watch it here.

UM Faculty, Students, Alums Win Awards at NCA

Research praised at New Orleans convention. UPDATE: Taylor wins Top Paper Award. Read more…

COMM@Maryland, October/November Issue

Maddux Receives Book Awards

Honors come from OSCLG and RCA. Read more…

New Faculty, Graduate Student Publications

Articles appear in leading COMM and interdisciplinary journals. Read more…

Department Sponsors 4th Annual Grunig Lecture

Toth presents research on PR education. Read more…

Khamis Receives CTE Fellowship & AUSACE Award

Recognition for teaching and research. Read more…

Kendall & Parry-Giles Quoted in News Stories

Comments about politics in CNS and Washington Examiner. Read more…

Nan Awarded Major Grant From NIH

Study to examine HPV Vaccine Media, African-Americans. Read more…

Lewis Authors Study of "Municipal Housekeeping"

Essay appears in Rhetoric & Public Affairs. Read more…

Nan Publishes Study of TV and Perceptions of Smoking

Article appears in Mass Communication & Society. Read more…

S. Parry-Giles Quoted in Washington Post Article. Read it here.

Khamis Authors Article in IJOC. Read it here.

Other Department News

Publications by UM Faculty & Graduate Students

COMM Spotlight

UM COMM Scholars Publish Cutting-Edge Health Communication Research

Department of Communication scholars and affiliate scholars have recently published a series of important and cutting-edge studies of health communication.

Graduate students Rowena Briones and Kelly Madden, along with assistant professor Xiaoli Nan and senior lecturer Leah Waks authored a study of HPV vaccine coverage on YouTube in Health Communication. The same team also authored a study of HPV vaccine information online in the important medical journal Vaccine.

Nan and Madden are also the co-authors of a study in Health Communication about the H1N1 vaccine and older Americans. Nan and another team of graduate students are authors of a study about cancer information seeking that appears in the Journal of Health Communication.

Graduate student Vanessa Boudewyns is the co-author of a study of communication and STD testing that appears in Health Communication. And the Journal of Health Communication recently published an essay by Department affiliate faculty member Linda Aldoory about male involvement with maternal health communication in Nigeria. Read more about some of this research here.

The Department of Communication is committed to promoting a broad spectrum of voices and views resulting from a heterogeneity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and nationality among faculty, students, and staff.

The Department of Communication admits students seeking the B.A., and the Ph.D. degrees. The areas of research pursued in the department include:

•Feminist Studies

•Health Communication

•Intercultural Communication

•Media Studies

•Persuasion & Social Influence

•Public Relations

•Rhetoric & Political Culture

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Department Maintains National Rankings
Numerous surveys identify UM's Department of Communication as among the best programs in the nation.
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