Dr. Rob Carpenter keeps churning out books with two releases this year and a textbook set to come out in September. In January, his book “How to Adapt A Novel Into a Screenplay” came out, and last month he released “Epic Lessons: The Timeless Insights & Modern Science From the Movies We Can’t Forget.” Congrats […]
Many congratulations to Kelsey Neuenswander for being selected to receive the 2025-2026 FABBS Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Award for her thesis, “Social cognition of voices: Perception of gendered cues in vocal communication.” Kelsey was in our first class of Ph.D. graduates and is currently a postdoc in the Department of Psychology at the University of […]
Join us in congratulating Garrett Oyama, a first-year Ph.D. student in Communication, on being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his proposal, “The effects of digital environments on speech and language development.” His fellowship will start next academic year.
Congratulations to Professor Rachit Dubey for receiving the Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Award from the University of California Office of the President. This award provides funding for his project “Countering Climate Normalization: Experimental Studies of the Shifting Baselines Syndrome.”
Congratulations to our own Stuart Soroka, who was recently named a 2026 Carnegie Fellow for his project “Political Polarization and the News Media Ecosystem.” https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/stuart-soroka-named-2026-andrew-carnegie-fellow
Our own Gabriella Skollar, who directs the Gibbon Conservation Center in Santa Clarita, was featured on LAist this week. You can read the story here, or listen to it. Maybe it will inspire you to go see the gibbons yourself!
Communication postdoctoral researcher Mathilde Massenet talked to Ari Daniel at NPR about recent research by colleagues showing how horses create these two tones simultaneously in their whinnies. Click the link for the full story.
Our own Zack Burwell was awarded at the annual Thomas E. Lifka Staff Appreciation Luncheon and Awards Ceremony hosted by Dean Abel Valenzuela Jr. on June 18 at UCLA’s Luskin Conference Center. Well deserved! Click here for more.
