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CAS major Briana Adams strives to bring awareness to injustice
PSU Speech and Debate Society defeats Pitt, shines in tournaments
Smith, MacGeorge and colleagues awarded PSU Pathway to Partnerships funding for novel research!
CAS community members Parrot, Gouran, and Krieger receive awards
Dr. Mike Hogan to become Sparks Professor in Fall 2015
New staff member Jason Traverse has long CAS history
New tenure-track job open in diversity, U.S. politics, and political communication
CAS featured in AlumnInsider
Stephen Browne wins the National Communication Association's Distinguished Scholar Award!
Jeremy Engels appears on the radio program “A Public Affair” out of Madison, Wisconsin to discuss his new book “The Politics of Resentment”
LJ Shen and Jim Dillard selected for 2015 Distinguished Article Award
CAS Student Carrie Rein founds non-profit organization DreamTeen: Bringing Childhood Dreams to Foster Teens
CAS Fighting the Threat of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
Dr. Rosa Eberly appears on KCRW's and PRI's "To The Point" to discuss public violence
CAS Student Marshall James Hutchison Accepted to Penn State Law
Kurt Braddock Briefs Pentagon
Dr. Rachel Smith is part of a research team that has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study malaria prevention
Kurt Braddock's research on Developing Counter-Terrorism Narratives featured in New York Magazine
Dr. Brad Vivian and Dr. Michele Kennerly win Center for Humanities and Information Faculty Fellowships for 2016-17
Robin Kramer selected to present at the 2016 Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium
CAS Student Briana Adams to receive Penn State's Jackson Lethbridge Tolerance Award
Camp Rhetoric 2016
Penn State Speech & Debate Society has impressive showing at state championships
Dr. Rosa Eberly featured in the Austin American-Statesman
David Dzikowski, Ines Meyer-Hoess, and Amber Walker Jackson promoted to Senior Lecturer
Congratulations Jessica Kurr!
Rachel McLaren becomes associate professor in the Dept. of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa
Kurt Braddock interviewed by Interfaith Voices
John Gastil pens new op-ed in wake of BREXIT
Jon Nussbaum to be named NCA Distinguished Scholar
New CAS degree to be offered in Fall '16
Xun Zhu and Amber K. Worthington receive top student paper honors from NCA
Essay by Dr. John Gastil featured in The Washington Post
Associate Professor Emeritus Christopher Johnstone has op-ed piece in today’s Centre Daily Times
Jason Traverse, the CAS Events Coordinator and CAS grad, places 2nd in PSU photo contest
Speech & Debate Society Named Voter Education Partner
Dr. Kirt Wilson to deliver Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture at NCA Convention
Professors Erina MacGeorge and Rachel Smith receive grant from the CDC
CAS faculty, graduate students, and alums in the spotlight at 2016 NCA Convention
CAS issues statement on post-election climate
Kirt Wilson honored with Malvin and Lea Bank Outstanding Teaching Award
Professor James Dillard named Distinguished Professor by Penn State University
Gouran honored with 2017 McKay Donkin Award
CAS Students awarded Fulbright Scholarships
Two CAS Faculty Members Honored
Greg Sam Award Recipient
Faculty Member Recieves Welch Alumni Relations Award!
Department Head Elected as Fellow of the International Communication Association
Lecturer invited to the Department of State's Global Engagement Center
The Penn State Mock Trial Association recieved Honorable Menition Trophy
Zachary T. Smith Professorship Awardee
Two former PhD students recieve promotions!
Professor Stuckey named NCA Distinguished Scholar
PhD Student Awarded Michael Calvin McGee Outstanding Grad Student Paper Award
Prossor Erina MacGeorge as Guest on President Barron's WPSU Show "Digging Deeper"
CAS Issues Statement on DACA
Congrats to the Speech & Debate Team!
CAS Panel Informs, Inspires
Speech & Debate Competition Updates!
GEW and 483 Work Group
CAS Faculty Identified among the most Published Scholars in the Communication Discipline!
National Communication Association Convention
Public Speaking Contest Results
Speech and Debate Tournament Results
CAS to Welcome Two New Faculty Memebers
Faculty Member Awarded 2018-19 Fellowship
Kellie Brisini receives RGSO Award
Assistant or Associate Professor in Communication Arts and Sciences/ Co-Hire with the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
CAS Statement on Graduate Education
Assistant Professor Awarded 2018 Joyce & Aqueil Ahmad Endowment
Associate Teaching Professor Mary High to Join CAS Faculty
CAS Student Recognized as Multicultural Student Leader
Speech & Debate's First Tournament of Spring 2018
Speech & Debate Team - PA Forensic Association Tournament Results
Speech & Debate Team - John Carroll University Results
Posdoctoral Teaching Fellow Awarded Student Academic Achievement Award
2017-2018 Student Marshal
2017 Fulbright Fellowship Update
Speech and Debate Team heads to Wisconsin
Peer Educators Lead Conversation on Sexual Assault at Penn State
FALL 2018 OPPORTUNITIES
Professor Smith Receives Award
CAS Class To Be Offered for London Study Abroad
Congratulations to the 2018 Civic Engagement Public Speaking Contest Winners
Dr. Rachel Smith Named LA Professor of CAS
CAS Alumni Stories
Clayton Schug Speech and Debate Tournament
CAS PhD Alumna Elected to State College Borough Council
Donald P. Bellisario Professor: President-elect of the International Communication Association
CAS Professors recognized at NCA
PhD Student receives dissertation award from RGSO
PhD Student receives STAR Award
Fall 2019 Civic Engagement Public Speaking Contest
The Economist recognizes CAS PhD book: Remembering Emmett Till
Speech and Debate: First Place Sweepstakes Award
PhD Student recognized by STAR
First graduate from Organizational and Professional Communication through World Campus
PhD candidate selected to 2020-21 Predoctoral Fellow
CAS Lecturer elected to seat in Henry County Council
CAS and Political Science Professor named Distinguished Professor
Undergraduate Student author of blog for CIVCM project
PhD Student's articles published in Communication 42 and QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
CAS professor and department head travels to University of Minnesota
Robin Haynes to receive Outstanding Customer Service Award from College of Liberal Arts
CAS graduate student creates welcoming classroom by using preferred pronouns
2020 Staff Scholarship Award
CAS Alumna named Editor-in-Cheif
Graduate seminar on computer-mediated communication
CAS Shoutout
CAS ShoutOut to the Welcome Weekend Planning Team
PhD candidates and CAS Professor featured in Penn State News
CAS Shoutout to the CAS 100 Leadership Team
NCA features CAS Professor on podcast
CAS Shoutout for Associate Professor
2020 CAS Student Marshall
A CAS Shoutout: Professors making a difference
A CAS Shoutout: Penn State Altoona
A CAS Shoutout to the CAS Undergraduate Showcase team
PhD candidate receives Outstanding Graduate Research Award
PhD candidate receives Graduate Fellowship in Ethical Inquiry
PhD candidate awarded Superior Teaching and Research Award
Alumni News
Assistant Professor Kennerly awarded a McCourtney Institute Research Grant
Department of Communication Arts and Sciences Annual Awards Celebration
Graduate Students receive 2020-21 Sparks Fellowship
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Dillard, collaborator on "Viral Imaginations: COVID-19"
CAS department introduces two new dual-title PhD programs
CAS PhD student published in the journal Argumentation and Advocacy
PhD student selected by the College of Liberal Arts for Research and Graduate Studies Dissertation Award
Students recognized with awards from the Center for Democratic Deliberation
Engels promoted to rank of Professor
Commencement 2020
PhD student published in Screen Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Experience, Perception, and Display
Alumni News: Recent graduate to begin position as Research Assistant for The Kettering Foundation
GRADS@WORK: PhD candidate accepts position as a Social Scientist with FDA
CAS PhD Alumna receives Distinguish Alumni Award from Albion College
CAS department recognizes two outstanding teaching faulty with Award for Teaching Excellence
Slavoff recipient of the Richard B. Gregg Memorial Award for Scholarly Excellence
Schoch and Zahn recipients of Dr. Nancy J. Metzger Award
Naraine recipient of the Harold J. "Pat" O'Brien Award
Wu awarded the Adma Hammam Shibley Memorial Scholarship
2020 recipient of the Communication Arts and Sciences Community Leadership Award
GRADS@WORK
A note from CAS Department Head: Denise Solomon
A word from CAS Department Head: Denise Solomon
Faculty Spotlight: Associate Professor Wilson concludes term as President of the RSA
VanHaitsma named the Douglas S. and Joyce L. Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute
Alumni News: Associate Professor to Senior Data Scientist
CAS PhD Graduate to begin position as Assistant Professor
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Stuckey assumes role of Journal Editor for 3rd time
Alumni News: Faulkner recipient of awards
PhD candidate Nikki Orth 2020 recipient of Award for Excellence in Teaching
PhD candidates recently published in the Journal of Health Communication
Faculty Spotlight: Associate Professor, Andy High awarded Minerva Program Grant
GRADS@WORK: PhD candidate accepts position as Instructor of Humanities
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Shen announced as new Editor-in-Chief for Communication Methods and Measures
PhD alumna Kellie Brisini selected as the 2020 recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award
Communication Arts and Sciences first virtual student commencement
GRADS@WORK: Incoming graduate students to CAS
CAS 100: Keywords project
Communication Arts and Sciences Fall 2020 All Department Meeting
GRADS@WORK: Research on mental health in the early months of COVID-19
Brown named as a recipient of the 2020 Stand Up Award
Communication Arts and Sciences Fall 2020 Colloquium
CAS Faculty Members receive prestigious award from NCA
CAS major panelist at roundtable discussion, “Toward Racial Equity at Penn State: Social Difference, Social Equity and Social Change”
Constitution Day 2020
CAS professor shares visit after COVID-19 surveillance testing
CAS Department welcomes Whittemore to team of Undergraduate Advisors
Faculty Spotlight: CAS Lecturer Wing gives support to Artists-In-Presidents project
GRADS@WORK: PhD student lead author of an essay in special issue on Transgender Rhetorics
Alumni News: PhD alumna co-founder of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity
GRADS@WORK: PhD student Vanderbilt successfully defends dissertation
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Engels releases essay exploring the meaning of "namaste" in The Conversation
Liberal Arts Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences to be featured in virtual panel hosted by PSU press
Events Assistant receives "You Rock" award by the College of the Liberal Arts
CDD Lecture Series: Professor Engels to give talk on, "The Ethics of Oneness for a World in Pain"
Graduate Program in Communication Arts and Sciences Video
CAS Faculty featured in the Penn State Social Science Research Institute’s blog
PhD Alumnus receives Dissertation Award
Student Services Coordinator receives "You Rock" award by College of Liberal Arts
Assistant Professor of AFAM and CAS elected Vice-Chair Elect of the Public Address Division of the NCA
CAS Department represented on top paper panels at NCA
PhD candidate selected to join the Next Gen Global Leaders Network
Six new members recently inducted into Lambda Pi Eta (LPH), the honors society of the NCA
PhD students receive dissertation awards from the Research and Graduate Studies Offices of the College of the Liberal Arts
CAS Professors recognized with prestigious awards from NCA
CAS graduate student defends proposal for Master's Thesis
GRADS@WORK: Li's MA Program of Study review
CAS student published in Harrisburg Patriot-News opinion page
CAS Department hosts Civic Engagement Public Speaking Contest
Buchan defends master thesis, "Rhetoric, Gender, and Myth in the Age of the Technoapocalypse"
CAS Department hosts Civic Engagement Public Speaking Contest: Winner, runners up, and honorable mentions announced
Sweeney defends qualifying exam
CAS graduate program admissions
Celebrations: CAS PhD students conferred at commencement
December 2020 CAS Commencement
PhD student selected to be 2020-21 Fellow in the Center for Humanities and Information
CAS Teaching Faculty promotions
CAS Assistant Professor recently edited a special issue of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research entitled “Composing Climate Change"
Harpster selected as student marshal for the College of Liberal Arts
GRADS@WORK: PhD student begins position at hMetrix
Faculty Spotlight: Professor and Department head, Denise Solomon featured on Red Rock Relationships
Liberal Arts Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences interviewed about new book
CAS major to present research at the Clevanger Undergraduate Conference
Panel on Rhetoric and Queer Studies to discuss book published by CAS Assistant Professor
CAS Professor publishes essay in, "The Conversation," reflecting on the practice of mindfulness
Alumni News: PhD Alumni have chapters in recent volume examining political, social, and philosophical issues
Statement from the Penn State Black Caucus
Department mourns passing of past PhD and Outstanding Alumni Award recipient
CAS student's paper ranked as one of the top four in submissions to the Southern States Communication Association's Undergraduate Conference
2021 Staff Award Winners
CAS major to discuss gender-based violence from a global perspective
Alumni News: CAS Alumna to be published in April 2021 with Strata Publishing
CAS Associate Teaching Professor featured as editor in recently published collection
Where Are They Now?: Members of the CAS Community
PhD Alumna selected to receive 2021 Outstanding Dissertation Award
PhD candidate recognized as Volunteer of the Year at Tides
PhD student successfully defends dissertation
Where Are They Now?: Members of the CAS Community
Williams Nagel receives Top Paper Panel Award
Penn State Altoona professor of communication arts and sciences is the 2021 recipient of the Lion's Paw Medal
A word from CAS Department Head: Denise Solomon
PhD Student lead author of, "Parasocial Relationships and Children"
CAS PhD student accepts position as Assistant Professor at the University of Denver
Alumni News
Traeder named recipient of the 2021 Filippelli Institute Award for Excellence in Online Teaching
Kennerly named recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Teaching Awards for Tenure Line Faculty
Michels named recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Teaching Award for Teaching Faculty
Brown named as CAS Marshal for May 2021 Commencement
Professor MacGeorge awarded 2021 Raymond Lombra Award
Professor Vivian named recipient of the 2011 Class of 1933 Distinction in the Humanities Award
CAS doctoral student featured in Communication Currents
CAS graduate students excel in CDD Burke Prize contest
CAS Assistant Teaching Professor defends dissertation
CAS Awards Ceremony Celebrations
Spring Civic Engagement and Public Speaking Contest
Alumni News
CAS Department recognized in Penn State News
CAS Spring 2021 Commencement
Delayo successfully defends master thesis
PhD student published in Quarterly Journal of Speech
Neibauer successfully defends dissertation
Associate Teaching Professor Sierlecki receives Teaching Faculty professional development award
Professor Engels featured in Penn State News, "The Ethics of Oneness"
Faculty Spotlight: Golán Visiting Assistant Professor
CAS department creates new endowment
VanHaitsma selected as recipient of the Randy Majors Memorial Award
PhD alumna recognized with two awards for outstanding dissertation project at NCA
Creation of John H. Saunders Service Award
Zhou selected to receive Dissertation Award from RGSO
PhD alumnus featured in panel of speakers at the National Museum of American History
PhD students compete in Muay Thai bouts
PhD alumna in second year as Research Associate at Kettering Foundation
CAS Department currently accepting applications for M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
CAS professors Kennerly and Stuckey featured in virtual author event
Stuckey featured on podcast: Democracy Works
Van Horn featured in, "Town Hall Addressing Sexual Misconduct"
PhD candidate awarded fellowship from CHI
Associate Professor of CAS and English published in Penn State's Collegian
PhD Alumnus receives Sue DeWine Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
PhD Student cast in lead role of Netflix's production, "All the Light We Cannot See"
Fall 2021 Civic Engagement Speaking Contest finalists
Assistant Teaching Professor welcomes second child
PhD candidate given Honorable Mention for Outstanding Student Paper Award
New Lambda Pi Eta inductees
New degree opportunity for CAS majors
CAS doctoral student passes comprehensive exam
Gastil and co-author receive Ernest Bormann Research Award
Commencement Fall 2021
234 Sparks support team makes donation to HCHS
Promotion for three teaching faculty
Visiting Assistant Professors for Spring Semester
CAS PhD alumnus hosts podcast, "Pop Life"
Assistant Professor selected as top paper by WSCA
MA student selected to serve with the National Prevention Science Coalition
PhD alumnus recipient of Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award
Study Abroad in Vienna
CAS teaching faculty members of Happy Valley Improv
Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Intergrative Arts at PSU Altoona featured in Penn State Today
Assistant Professor featured in panel discussing ecological mourning
CAS Department Head, Denise Solomon named Distinguished Professor
James Dillard, Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences featured in recent publication
Jennifer Keyzer-Andre recognized by Liberal Arts for Excellence in Leadership and Mentoring
PhD candidate defends dissertation
CAS major studying abroad to share experience in Greece
Students teaching students
GRADS@WORK, Jupina completes MA program of study
GRADS@WORK: Meds defends prospectus master's thesis
PhD student wins STAR award
Spring 2022 Civic Engagement Public Speaking Contest
CAS Professor travels to Sweden
2022 CAS Awards Ceremony
PhD student selected as Graduate Student Resident and receives grant for dissertation
PhD alumna winner of the Abby Prestin Dissertation of the Year Award
GRADS@WORK, Peterson successfully defends dissertation
Spring 2022 Commencement
Penn State Debate Team
GRADS@WORK, Lee passes comprehensive exams
GRADS@WORK, Bishop awarded Translational Research Training Program fellowship
GRADS@WORK, Maier passes comprehensive exams
VanHaitsma tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
GRADS@WORK, Sweeney passes comprehensive exams
Reflections on Shootings in Buffalo and Dallas
Flores to join Communication Arts and Sciences Department
GRADS@WORK, Zhou successfully defends dissertation
Penn State Berks faculty receive major grant to elevate undergraduate education
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