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GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

using reasoned action approach” at the 2022 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in August.

MARAL ABDOLLAHI AND DANFORD

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ZIRUGO received the Ralph D. Casey Dissertation Research Award, which recognizes outstanding graduate achievement for dissertation projects; it is the highest honor that the school gives to graduate students. Abdollahi is being honored for her dissertation project, “Human users’ responses to virtual social media influencers and strategic and ethical implications for communication,” and Zirugo is being honored for his dissertation project, “Zimbabwean journalists as a fractured interpretive community: An analysis of news media struggles for professionalization under repressive conditions.” They were awarded $6,000 to put toward their research.

BUGIL CHANG received second place in the student competition in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Public Relations Division for his paper, “Moving beyond negative spillover: The positive consequences of innocent brand’s responses to another brand’s crisis.”

YUMING FANG presented her paper “Varied optimal predictor of college student’s depression help-seeking intentions: An illustrative multiple-year analysis of three samples

CHLOE GANSEN received this year’s Dan Wackman First-Year Graduate Student Research Award for her paper “Proposing a conceptual model for politicization carryover effects.” The annual Wackman award was established with generous gifts from professor emeritus Dan Wackman and others to honor a first-year graduate student or small group of graduate students who produce the best research paper for a completed first-year graduate project in mass communication. Gansen received $2,000 in recognition of her work.

KATIE HAEJUNG KIM presented her paper “Employees’ voice on corporate social irresponsible behavior: The role of organizational identification and situational perceptions” at the 2022 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in August.

HAO XU presented his paper “Understanding the combined effects of stance congruence and publics’ pre-existing corporate attitude in corporate social advocacy,” at the 2022 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in August.

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