This team of one faculty member and one graduate student recently joined a $500,000+ research project of the START program.
Who are Brooke Fisher Liu and Melissa Janoske
100
This person received her Ph.D. from Indiana University and is the only Research Professor in the Department
Who is Kathleen Kendall?
100
This course is the only specific course (not counting dissertation research credits) that is required of all graduate students.
What is COMM 700--Introduction to Graduate Study in Communication?
100
The year that Bill Clinton was impeached, and the Department became the Department of Communication
What is 1998?
100
The University of Minnesota
Who are James Klumpp and Xiaoli Nan?
200
The book The Faithful Citizen, by this faculty member at UM, is the recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Book Award from the Organization for the Study of Language, Gender, and Communication.
Who is Kristy Maddux?
200
The chair of the department from 1997 to 2007, he still teaches in the Department and is a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at UM.
Who is Edward Fink?
200
To be an advisor for a Plan of Study committee or a dissertation committee, a faculty must be a _______________ member of the UM Graduate Faculty.
What is a regular member?
200
Acting Chair of the Department in 1980 and 1984, and Chair of the Department from 1989 to 1994--he's still on the faculty.
Who is Andrew Wolvin?
200
The University of Michigan
Who is Leah Waks?
300
Xiaoli Nan received a $150,000 grant from this funding agency to study African-American caregivers and their responses to messages about the HPV vaccine.
What is the National Institutes of Health (NIH)?
300
A recent Ph.D. graduate of the department, she wrote her dissertation on the National Woman's Party, is currently an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, and is married to fellow UM Ph.D. Bjorn.
Who is Belinda Stillion Southard?
300
A graduate student must complete coursework, pass a comprehensive examination, and advance to candidacy within _____________ years of matriculation.
What is 5?
300
The longest serving chair of the Department, this person also hired Harry Byrd, who later became president of UM and for whom Byrd Football Stadium is named.
Who is Charles Richardson?
300
The University of Wisconsin
Who is Ed Fink?
400
This Ph.D. student is the author of one of the most downloaded articles in JPRR for 2011. The articles is entitled "Online Relationship Management in a Presidential Campaign: A Case Study of the Obama Campaign's Management of its Internet-Integrated Grassroots Effort."
Who is Abbey Levenshus?
400
He helps take care of all things to do with the graduate program, paperwork and files, admissions and graduation.
Who is Ray Chang?
400
Written comprehensive examinations last this long and are spread over three weeks. Oral examinations last this long and must occur in the 7th, 8th, or 9th weeks of the semester.
What are are 12 hours and 2 hours?
400
Three existing faculty members (the only three) who began teaching at UM as Assistant Professors and who have been promoted to Associate Professor and Full Professor.
Who are Shawn Parry-Giles, Trevor Parry-Giles, and Andrew Wolvin?
400
Purdue University
Who are Meina Liu, Elizabeth Toth, and Andrew Wolvin?
500
Stephen Underhill, a Ph.D. student and lecturer in the Department, asked President Barack Obama a question during a town hall event at UM in August. He asked the president about this policy.
What is U.S. drug policy?
500
A Distinguished Scholar-Teacher for 2010-2011, this person is an affiliate member of the Department's faculty and currently teaches in the Psychology department at UM.
Who is Michele Gelfand?
500
The dissertation committee must receive the dissertation approved by the Advisor at least ____________ prior to the scheduled dissertation defense.
What is two weeks?
500
The original name of the Department of Communication when it was founded in 1901.