Congratulations Dr. Janet Yang @janetyz12 on receiving the Chauncey Starr award for Distinguished Young Risk Analyst youtu.be/Kc5dCumZmkc
It's quite a lot of stuff so pasting here as a list. Will publish more detailed info on each on the days...
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On Sat - even more talks! From @yue_zoey @SlyGillis, profs Lance Rintamaki and McKenzie Vorpahl, and former student @ChrisDobmeier
Our students gonna present 4 papers on Th/Fr in @NatComm #NCA21- including two top paper presentations from @MatthewVoll & @tahleenlattimer (w prof @lindsayhahn_)! Also presenting are @madison_neurohr, Zach Glowacki, and profs Kelly Tenzek & Mark Frank
🚨 new PhD alert 🚨 congratulations to Dr. Vivian Liu on successfully defensing her dissertation on the effects of psychological distance in persuasive narratives 🎉🍾
🚨 new PhD alert 🚨 please help us congratulate Dr. Melissa M. Moore, Ph.D., who successfully defended her ambitious, important, and fantastic dissertation today with flying colors 🥳 🎉 👏
🚨 new Master of Arts in the house 🚨 Devin K. Forde (@FordeDevin) successfully defended his MA thesis on the effects of video game framing of fictional social protests on audiences' perceptions and opinions about #BlackLivesMatter and real-world social justice. Congrats 🎉🎊🍾
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🚨 new MA in the house 🚨 Congratulations @emilyaandrews1 on a timely, important, and insightful thesis defense, exploring ways to correct #misinformation around #COVID19 vaccine conspiracy theories! 🎉👩🎓
🚨 new Doctor in the house 🚨 Congratulations to Dr. @ksfitzge who successfully defended her dissertation today in front of a crowded Zoom house of 40(!) people! 🎉
A fantastic new edited volume on #EntertainmentEducation out yesterday in #OpenAccess includes no less than 3 (!!!) chapters authored by our faculty-- congrats @NarrProf @ubuntu4change and @ophiryotam on the new pubs! 🍻 🍻 🍻 read for FREE here: palgrave.com/us/book/9783030…
Today at 1pm Dr Janet Yang will receive @AEJMC’s prestigious 2020 Hillier Krieghbaum Under 40 Award! Tune in to the virtual conference to celebrate with her
In a new piece in @AMJPublicHealth , Dr. Ophir (@ophiryotam) and colleagues show Russian trolls intensified the political polarization of #vaccine hesitancy and #misinformation by discussing it differently when pretending to be liberal or conservative: ajph.aphapublications.org/do…
Professor Janet Yang will be on Chanel 4 news with Jacquie Walker at 5:30 today to discuss the recent #coronavirus #COVID19 in light of #riskcommunication, and in the Morning Edition on WBFO tomorrow morning! Tune in!
In a new study out in #CR, PhD student @ksfitzge and MA student @CassMcAllister3 (pictured) joined @MattGrizz and a group of former UB students, to study the effects of equitable- and non-equitable-retribution on #narrative processing. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Congratulations to doctoral student Zhuling (Veronica) Liu and Dr. Janet Yang, who just won the top student paper award at the Risk Communication Specialty Group at the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). Our department is well represented at SRA with five papers!
Dr. Yang and PhD student @MooreMelissaM did not only redefine being cool while presenting in Vancouver (see photo), but just published their work in Environmental Communication, showing the effects of pro-environment video games tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Congratulations Dr Janet Yang and @CommDepUB alumni Dr Haoran Chu on a well deserved award at #NCA19 🍾🎉 📊
A new study published today by Dr. Janet Yang and Dr. Jun Zhuang at Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly explores the social cognitive variables that motivate information seeking and sharing related to #Hurricane Harvey. Read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/…






















