Awards

Congratulations to Dr. Meaghan McKasy for being one of the first 2022-2023 Faculty Fellows for the new Environmental Initiatives Hub at the Center for Social Impact.

Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Pauly for winning the CHSS Faculty Excellence Award for the 2021-2022 academic year. 

Congratulations to Dr. Leandra Hernandez for winning the 2020-2021 UVU Champion of  Inclusion Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Stevie M. Munz for winning the Central States Communication Association Pearson & Nelson Outstanding New Teacher Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Leandra Hernandez for winning both the Global/Intercultural Faculty Award and the CHSS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in Spring 2021.

Congratulations to Dr. Meaghan McKasy for being awarded a 2021 Engaged Learning in the Liberal Arts (ELLA) grant to support COMM 3115 Communicating in Environments.

Congratulations to Dr. Leandra Hernandez for winning  the 2021 NCA Latina/o Communication Studies Division Outstanding Edited Book Award for her book, This Bridge Called Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis with Dr. Robert Gutierrez-Perez and Dr. Herandan. 

Congratulations to Dr. Leandra Hernandez for winning the 2021 NCA Christine L. Oravec Article Award in Environmental Communication for her article Construyendo Conexiones Para Los Niños: Environmental Justice, Reproductive Feminicidio, and Coalitional Possibility in the Borderlands with Drs. Carlos Tarin and Sarah Upton. 

Congratulations to Dr. Meaghan McKasy for being awarded a 2021 Capitol Reef Field Station grant to support COMM 3115 Communicating in Environments.

Congratulations to Dr. Leandra Hernandez for winning both the Global/Intercultural Faculty Award and the CHSS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in Spring 2021.

Congratulations to Dr. Meaghan McKasy for being awarded a 2021 Engaged Learning in the Liberal Arts (ELLA) grant to support COMM 3115 Communicating in Environments. 

Congratulations to Dr. Leandra Hernandez for winning  the 2021 NCA Latina/o Communication Studies Division Outstanding Edited Book Award for her book, This Bridge Called Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis with Dr. Robert Gutierrez-Perez and Dr. Herandan. 

Congratulations to Dr. Leandra Hernandez for winning the 2021 NCA Christine L. Oravec Article Award in Environmental Communication for her article Construyendo Conexiones Para Los Niños: Environmental Justice, Reproductive Feminicidio, and Coalitional Possibility in the Borderlands with Drs. Carlos Tarin and Sarah Upton. 

Congratulations to Dr. Meaghan McKasy for being awarded a 2021 Capitol Reef Field Station grant to support COMM 3115 Communicating in Environments.

 

Publications and Presentations 

Presentations at Utah Valley University: https://spark.adobe.com/page/RhiQOlUYsABDO/

Academic Presentations and Publications 

Hernández, L. H., & Munz, S. M. (2021). Autoethnography as assessment: Communication pedagogies as social justice activism. Communication Teacher, 1-18.

De Los Santos Upton, S., Tarin, C. A., & Hernández, L. H. (2021). Construyendo Conexiones Para Los Niños: Environmental Justice, Reproductive Feminicidio, and Coalitional Possibility in the Borderlands. Health Communication, 1-11.

McKasy, M., Cacciatore, M. A., Yeo, S. K., Zhang, J. S., Cook, J., & Olaleye, R. M. (2021, August). The Impact of Emotion and Humor on Support for Global Warming Action. Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), New Orleans, LA (virtual).

Yeo, S. K., Su, L. Y.-F., Cacciatore, M. A., & McKasy, M. (2021, August). The differential effects of science humor on three scientific issues: Global warming, artificial intelligence, and microbiomes. Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), New Orleans, LA (virtual).