Al Henkel ('82 journalism), a senior coordinating producer for NBC News, is the recipient of the 2021 Greenlee Professional Achievement Award. Adam J. Kuban ('07 M.S. journalism, '05 journalism and meteorology), an associate professor in the Department of Journalism at Ball State University, is the recipient of the 2021 Greenlee Young Alumni Award.

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Andy J. King, Greenlee assistant professor, was awarded a grant in the amount of $396,908 from the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute (NCI) to study communication related to colon cancer screening (CRCS). King will lead a team of researchers from Cornell University, New York University and Iowa State as they use natural language processing and crowdsourcing to evaluate public information and communication disparities about CRCS. The four-year project is funded through an NCI Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award, which provides longer term grant support to Early Stage Investigators and the opportunity to apply for an extension up to two years. The estimated total funding for the project is $1,548,266.

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Are you looking for an intern majoring in journalism, public relations, advertising or a related field? Meet Iowa State students at the fall 2021Jump-Start Internship and Networking Fair, which will take place in a virtual format on Sept. 29, 2021, between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Hosted by the Greenlee School in collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Career Services, the Jump-Start Fair offers Iowa State University students and employers the chance to discuss career options, as well as internships and full-time career opportunities in public relations, advertising, and journalism. Employer registration closes. Sept. 27 at 5 p.m. There is no fee to participate.

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Colton Boyd, a May 2021 graduate in advertising from Indianola, Iowa, and Lydia Wede, a senior in public relations and international studies from Oakland, Iowa, were named the winners of the 2021 Washington Media Scholars Media Plan Case Competition June 10. Hosted by the Washington Media Scholars Foundation and presented by Katz Media, the national competition challenges students interested in public policy communication to think strategically as they work in pairs to present comprehensive media plans based on a hypothetical public policy issue using real, consumer-driven data.

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Giles Fowler, Greenlee associate professor emeritus, was posthumously named a recipient of the 2021 Faculty-Staff Inspiration Award by the Iowa State Univerity Alumni Association. View a recording of the virtual recognition ceremony.

Ritika (Ritz) Agrawal, a recent graduate in advertising from Pune, India, is a 2021 recipient of the Iowa State University Alumni Association's Wallace E. Barron All-University Senior Award. The award recognizes outstanding seniors who display high character, outstanding achievement in academics and university/community activities and promise for continuing these exemplary qualities as alumni. Read more >>>

Kelly Howard ('08 journalism and mass communication) received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the Iowa State University Alumni Association. This award recognizes ISU alumni, age 40 and under, who have excelled in their professions and provided service to their communities. Read more >>>

Rick Phillips ('78 journalism and mass communication) was awarded the 2020 Distinguished Service Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This award is given to alumni, faculty and friends of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who have demonstrated outstanding service or academic contributions that further the educational mission of the college. Read more >>>

Two Greenlee School alumnae have been named 2021 Iowa STATEment Makers by the Iowa State University Alumni Association. This year’s honorees include Madison Tuttle (’18 public relations), a public affairs specialist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and Karla Walsh (‘10 journalism and kinesiology), a freelance journalist who writes about topics including food, health, fitness and the restaurant industry for national and local media. Read more >>>

Congratulations to the spring and summer 2021 graduates, the 2021 initiates of the Michael Bugeja Chapter of the Kappa Tau Alpha National Honors Society in Journalism and Mass Communication, and our 2020-21 scholarship recipients!

The Greenlee School hosted a hybrid meeting of its Advisory Council in April. Special thanks to outgoing members Rick Jost ('84 journalism) and Doug Jeske ('89 agricultural journalism, public service and administration in agriculture) who completed their terms at the meeting. Welcome to new members Tushar Dayal ('09 journalism) and Jennifer Lyons ('89 journalism).

The theme of our 19th annual First Amendment Days celebration was "Some Assembly Required," which rolled over from 2020 due to the pandemic. If you missed any of the 17 events, you're in luck. You can watch all sessions online.

The Washington Media Scholars Foundation has built out a new tab on their website about the Mia Guion Scholarship, which was established in honor of Guion, a 2017 Greenlee advertising grad and a member of the 2017 winning WMSF case competition team.

Dr. Etse Sikanku, a graduate of Greenlee's master's program, has invested his wealth of knowledge to challenge the systematic barriers of research in Ghana.

The Iowa State Daily won a Silver Crown in the 2021 Crown Awards by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. A total of 849 digital, newspapers, magazines and yearbooks published during the 2019-2020 academic year were eligible for judging in the 2021 Crown Awards Program. Since 2000, the Daily also won eight Gold Crowns and eight Silver Crowns.

Recent Iowa State University graduates in advertising received professional recognition for their work at the 2021 American Advertising Awards hosted by the Des Moines chapter of the American Advertising Federation this spring. Davis Van Egdon ('20 advertising) won Gold in the Print Advertising category and Stephen Gould (’20 advertising), Lydia Heydlauff (’20 psychology, advertising) and Anna Ehlers (’20 agricultural and life sciences education, advertising) were awarded Silver in the Online/Interactive category for their “What’s Your Day” campaign created for The Weather Channel. The work was created in the ADVRT 436 Advertising Portfolio Practicum course taught by Greenlee Associate Teaching Professor Michael Wigton. Read more >>>

Congratulations to our faculty who have recently received promotions:

Professor Daniela Dimitrova was selected as a Fulbright-University of Vienna Visiting Professor of Social Sciences for spring-summer 2022. Her proposal titled “Global Migration and the Media” will allow her to engage in international research on migration, teach at a leading European institution, and extend mutual understanding between Austria and the U.S.

Dimitrova also edited Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems, which was published in August 2021 and traces how media systems have evolved over time in different world regions. Watch Dimitrova talk about her book in this video with the publisher.

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Education Jan Lauren Boyles received the 2021 National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR)/Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) David Donald Fellowship in Data Journalism, which recognizes excellence in data journalism education and scholarship. She served on research panels and as a moderator/discussant earlier this spring at AEJMC's two regional conferences: the 2021 Midwinter Conference at the University of Oklahoma and the 2021 Southeast Colloquium at Elon University (both virtual). She also was an invited guest for AEJMC's Community Journalism interest group Brown Bag research luncheon series. Boyles served as the co-program planner for AEJMC's annual conference, which attracted more than 2,100 attendees. She was responsible for coordinating all programming, while also converting the event to a virtual format. Boyles is also serving a four-year elected term on the Association's Board of Directors.

This summer, she was an invited participant for Newsgeist -- an industry gathering sponsored by Google -- and served as a respondent/senior mentor at the International Communication Association's Journalism Studies Colloquium for doctoral students.  

In service, she completed journal article reviews for Digital Journalism, Journalism, Newspaper Research Journal and the Journal of Urban Affairs. She also reviewed a special issue proposal for Digital Journalism and nominations for ISU's Margaret Ellen White Award for Graduate Student Mentorship and AEJMC's Tankard Book Award.

Distinguished Professor Michael Bugeja reports the following publications:

Associate Professor Tracy Lucht reports the following:

Research:

I am under contract with Routledge to edit the Routledge Companion to American Journalism History with Melita Garza and Michael Fuhlhage. This volume, expected to be published in 2022, will feature more than fifty original research essays by a diverse group of scholars. Our objective is to further the historical study of journalism, to stimulate ideas for new directions in the discipline and to serve as a worldwide reference source for those wishing to understand current thinking about journalism history. 

My article “Amelia Bloomer, The Lily, and Early Feminist Discourse in the U.S.” was accepted for publication in American Journalism. I have been invited to give a presentation on this topic for the Honors Lecture Series at Middle Tennessee State University in October. 

I have an article, co-authored with master’s student Chelsea Davis, coming out in the winter issue of Journalism History. It is titled “Gender, Race, and Place in Newspaper Coverage of Women ‘Firsts’ After the Nineteenth Amendment.”

In September, my News and Feature Editing class will host a virtual talk with Iowa Falls Times Citizen editor Sara Konrad Baranowski, who will share her experiences in community journalism and what she has learned from covering a pandemic. 

I reviewed manuscripts for American Journalism and JMCQ this summer, and I wrote a book review of Susan, Linda, Nina and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPRfor American Journalism. I also served on the History Division Book Award Committee for AEJMC.

Assistant Professor Dara Wald's Risk Perceptions and Communications (JL MC 560) course was featured by LAS News Service. The story highlights how the global pandemic provides a unique backdrop for a graduate course focused on risk perceptions and communication.

She also co-edited a special issue on the role of trust in natural resource management with her colleagues Kristina M. Slagle, OSU, and Joseph A. Hamm, MSU. Their introductory editorial summarizes the articles and themes of the issue.