Research News

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media doctoral student Laura Marshall won two awards, including Outstanding Paper on Media and War, at the annual American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) conference Oct. 9-11 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Joan Cates will lead a team to communicate the importance of vaccinating against the most common sexually transmitted infection in the U.S.

Doctoral student Elise Stevens and associate professor Francesca Dillman Carpentier received a grant from AEJMC's Mass Communication and Society Division.

Twelve faculty members, 14 grad students, one staff member and nearly 40 alumni represented UNC at the 2014 AEJMC convention in Montréal Aug. 6-9.

Scott Parrott, a 2013 UNC doctoral graduate, was honored with AEJMC’s Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award for best mass communication dissertation. It marks the third consecutive year a UNC student has won the award.

Richard Cole Eminent Professor Dan Riffe received the Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award during the 2014 AEJMC convention in Montréal.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media professors Barbara Friedman and Anne Johnston won the Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advocacy for The Irina Project, which they co-direct, and its advocacy for the responsible and accurate reporting of sex trafficking.

Liz Woolery, a Ph.D. student in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been awarded a Google Policy Fellowship to work at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute in Washington, D.C., during summer 2014.

Jessica Gall Myrick, a 2013 doctoral alumna, won the 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Award given by the health communication divisions of the International Communication Association (ICA) and the National Communication Association (NCA). It marks the second time in as many years that a J-school doctoral graduate has won the award.

Two UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media professors — Barbara Friedman and Anne Johnston — were among nine University faculty members selected as the fifth class of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars.