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Faculty Spotlight: Distinguished Professor Denise Solomon gives 18th Memorial Bradac Lecture

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In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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Faculty Spotlight: Distinguished Professor Denise Solomon gives 18th Memorial Bradac Lecture

Faculty Spotlight: 

Denise Solomon, Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, recently traveled to the University of California, Santa Barbara, to deliver the 18th Memorial Bradac Lecture, which honors the legacy of communication scholar James Bradac. Professor Solomon’s presentation, A Dynamic Systems Perspective on Interpersonal Communication, focused on her efforts – in collaboration with Mimi Brinberg (Ohio State University), Nilam Ram (Stanford University), Graham Bodie (University of Mississippi), and Susanne Jones (University of Minnesota) – to study turn-to-turn dynamics within supportive conversations. The visit included a tour from UCSB’s Distinguished Professor Howard Giles and a conversation with CAS PhD alumna, Jennifer Kam, a professor in the Department of Communication at UCSB. Professor Solomon’s research on a dynamic dyadic systems perspective on conversation has been funded by two grants from the National Science Foundation.