The communication department at the University of Colorado at Boulder received five awards at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association last month.
Communication Professor Gerard Hauser received the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for his book "Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres." Hauser, who is chair of the communication department, is the author of two books and numerous research articles.
Roger Craig, an associate professor of communication, received the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award for his article "Communication Theory as a Field," which was published in the May 1999 issue of Communication Theory.
Robert Agne, Heidi Muller and Alena Sanisi, all CU-Boulder graduate students in communication, received "top four" designations for research papers they authored.
The National Communication Association is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the study of communication and is the largest and oldest scholarly society for the communication discipline.
The communication department at CU-Boulder specializes in examining the problems of human interaction, participation, collaboration, deliberation and decision-making across a wide variety of settings.