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Stephanie Dailey presented “Examining Resilience in Organizing” to the Organizational Communication Division at the National Communication Association convention in New Orleans. Elizabeth Eger received the 2022 Anita Taylor Outstanding Published Article Award from the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. The award recognized her article published in the International Journal of Business Communication entitled, “Co-constructing organizational identity and culture with those we serve: An ethnography of a transgender nonprofit organization communicating family identity and identification." Elizabeth received two career awards at the National Communication Association Convention in New Orleans. She received an Ethnography Division Early Career Award, which awards outstanding contributions to ethnographic research, and an Organizational Communication Division Outstanding Teaching Award (Tenure-Track), which honors superlative teaching in higher education in organizational communication. She received a Top Paper from the Critical Cultural Studies Division of NCA for "'Girl, it's bad in here.': Intersectional Undocuqueer Experiences of Organizational Violence in NBC's Superstore." The paper was co-authored with M.A. alum Emily Pollard . Elizabeth presented "Service Industry Workers as Family: Theorizing How Personal Workplace Relationships Both Build Community and Perpetuate Organizational Violence" to NCA's Ethnography Division. The paper was co-authored with M.A. alums Emily Pollard, Hannah E. Jones , and Riki Van Meter . She also chaired the panel “People and Advocacy in Organizations” at the convention. [2] Kristen Farris received a Top Paper Panel Award from the Training and Development division of NCA for "An exploratory investigation of employee perceptions for the development of a culture of health training intervention." The piece was co-authored with Michael Burns and Tricia Burke . Kristen also received a Top Paper Panel Award from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning division of NCA for "The COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst for instructor sensemaking." The awards were presented at the National Communication Association convention in New Orleans. Kristen published "Illuminating the faculty voice: Lessons from the pandemic to prepare for future crises" in Qualitative Research Reports in Communication . The article was co-authored with Erik Timmerman and Marian Houser , along with M.A. alum, Luke Dye. Kristen presented "Messages of support (in)adequacy: An exploration of message feature and relational outcome differences for support gap messages" to the Interpersonal Communication Division of NCA. The paper was co- authored with M.A. alum Maya Blitch . Rebekah Fox presented research from a forthcoming book, From a Whisper to a Movement: Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Public Protest , at the National Communication Association Annual Convention in New Orleans. The NCA panel included other authors whose work will also appear in the book. Marian Houser published "Illuminating the faculty voice: Lessons from the pandemic to prepare for future crises" in Qualitative Research Reports in Communication . The article was co-authored with Erik Timmerman and Kristen Farris , along with M.A. alum, Luke Dye. Maureen Keeley presented “Facilitating Meaningful Final Conversations in Family: Practice Insights from Research” to health and social care providers in Hong Kong. The presentation was part of a webinar series on family-centered end-of-life care sponsored by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. Maureen also presented “Death and Dying during a Global Pandemic: Strategies for Renewing Commitment, and Transforming Fear to Hope, at End- of- Life” to the Communication and Aging Division at the National Communication Association convention in New Orleans. [3] Roseann Mandziuk gave the LBJ Museum’s Annual Fall Lecture, presenting about Lady Bird Johnson’s 1964 Whistle Stop Tour, during which the former first lady travelled through the south giving speeches in favor of the Democratic ticket. For more information about the presentation, see the recent article published in the San Marcos Daily Record . As the current president of the National Communication Association, Roseann presented “From Lee to Jackson: Dismantling Structures of Oppression in New Orleans” to the opening session of the NCA convention in New Orleans. Manu Pokharel published “Tailored visuals, implementation intentions, and sun safe behavior: A longitudinal message experiment” in Health Psychology . She also published “Developing skin cancer education materials for darker skin populations: Crowdsourced design, message targeting, and acral lentiginous melanoma” in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine . College of Fine Arts and Communication | 9