Grad News from Greenlee

October 2019

The Greenlee Graduate Program joins the Fall 2019 Jump-Start Internship & Networking Fair

The Jump-Start Internship & Networking Fair, hosted by the Greenlee School, took place on October 1 ^st in the Great Hall of the Iowa State University Memorial Union. The fair seeks to offer undergraduate students within the fields of journalism and mass communication, public relations, advertising and other similar fields the opportunity to meet and develop a social network with potential employers while learning about internships available in their fields.

Prior to the fair, students can develop their professional presence through various workshops addressing topics such as creating resumes and how to approach employers at the fair.

The fair also offers students the chance to gain first-hand knowledge about the Graduate Program in Greenlee School with the ability to speak with faculty and graduate students. This year, the Greenlee School's master's program in journalism and mass communication was represented by the Greenlee School’s director of graduate education Dr. Gang Han, Dr. Jan Lauren Boyles, and graduate students Denise Coberley, Susan Cruz-Rodriguez, and Brittany Eide.

Dr. Joel Geske, Greenlee School Associate Professor

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Joel Geske

Dr. Joel Geske is an Associate Professor, the Associate Director, and an Essman Faculty Fellow in the Greenlee School. After a career working in corporate advertising, as a copywriter and as a creative director, Dr. Geske joined the Greenlee School faculty in 1988. He attained both his B.A. in journalism and mass communication and his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instructional Technology from Iowa State University.

Dr. Geske is interested the areas of diversity and making classrooms inclusive environments, something he has worked with many students to develop. In the past, he performed research on how the brain possesses visual information and how that leads to interaction between the media and an advertiser. Next, Dr. Geske is heading into the areas of virtual and augmented reality, researching how virtual reality leads to embodied emotions or embodied cognition. Particularly, Dr. Geske is looking at how virtual reality creates an emotional response in a way which other mediums cannot and exploring what kinds of emotions and feelings we get from virtual reality.

Some advice Dr. Geske wanted to pass to graduate students is:

“Things will change, I feel like I have lived four different lifetimes. All of them have changed drastically over the years. As cliché as it is, the only constant is change. Be excited about it. Be inquisitive and creative in any part of your life. Learn as you go. When your degree is done, don’t think you’ll be done with being a learner.”

Student Spotlight:

Madalyn McComber

Madalyn McComber is originally from Esko, Minnesota which is right outside Duluth, Minnesota. She graduated in three years from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona with a degree in Business Communications. Madalyn currently works at ISU's Recreation Services as the Marketing Graduate Assistant.

Madalyn was initially attracted to the Greenlee program because of the small class sizes, courses offered, and opportunity to work 1:1 with Greenlee professors. She enjoys the classmates she has met through the small class sizes , c ommenting: "e veryone is so nice and helpful!"

Madalyn McComber is a first-year graduate student in the Greenlee School.

Spring 2020 Course Options

Registration for graduate students begins Oct. 23, 2019

JL MC 503X: Advanced Research Methods: Quantitative Dr. Gang Han

JL MC 504X: Advanced Research Methods: Qualitative Dr. Novotny Lawrence

JL MC 506: Media Management Dr. Angela Powers

JL MC 510: Strategies of Communication Dr. Laura Witzling

JL MC 560: Risk Perception and Communication Dr. Dara Wald

Upcoming Call for Papers Deadlines

Broadcast Education Association (BEA) 2020 Convention December 1, 2019