Congratulations to the 2012 Department of Communication graduate student award winners:

Dan and Mary John O’Hair Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Elizabeth Minei

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Awards

Jerry Overton

Cindy Vincent

Ted Beaird Scholarship

Elissa Arterburn

Josh Lee Scholarship

Erin Baird

Basic Course Recognition

Elissa Arterburn & Erin Baird

Communication Graduate Student Association Recognition

Sara Straub & Stephanie Schartel Dunn

Photo: Alan Light

Please join the Department of Communication in celebrating the graduate and undergraduate student awardees.

Thursday, April 19, 7-9 p.m.
The Trails Golf Club
3200 S. Berry Rd.
Norman, OK

Please see Shelley Turner to R.S.V.P. for this event.

If you know someone interested in filling a CGSA position (co-chair, secretary, treasurer), nominate that person to cgsa@ou.edu. Elections will be held at next week’s CGSA meeting (April 5, Burton Hall, 1:30 p.m.). Also, if you are interested in representing the Communication graduate students in the Graduate Student Senate, volunteer to be a GSS representative.

CGSA is co-sponsoring the OU Center for Social Justice Graduate Student Research Fellows Student Film Contest. For more information on this event please visit http://csj.ou.edu/is-the-american-dream-just-social-justice-film-festival

The department and Dr. Elaine Hsieh, our interim graduate advisor, have created a new graduate newsletter full of important announcements and information for graduate students in the Communication Department. Check it out here!

We have extended the deadline for Sooner Communication Conference paper submittals to midnight (PST), December 23, 2011 to allow students to polish up their term papers before submitting.