Department of Communication

Knowledge + Skills = A Valuable College Experience

Do today’s bachelor’s degree recipients graduate with the requisite skills and abilities, coupled with their content knowledge, to be successful in the workplace? In this podcast, Dr. Eric Landrum, Psychology, explores this knowledge vs. skills debate.

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Amy Glass Earns AAI Award as NCAA’s Top Gymnast
DULUTH, Ga. - Boise State redshirt senior Amy Glass was named the 2012 AAI Award winner Thursday evening (April 19) at the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship awards banquet held at the Gwinnett Center.

Glass becomes the first Bronco to ever earn the honor, considered the sport’s equivalent to the Heisman Award. The honor is given annually to the top senior student-athlete in NCAA Division I women’s gymnastics by a vote of the sports’ head coaches from around the country.  Read the rest of the story at:  http://www.broncosports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9900&ATCLID=205416537

Dr. Heidi Reeder

Heidi Reeder, Ph.D. has received the Boise State University Foundation Scholar Award in Teaching for 2011/2012. The Foundation Scholar Awards are designed to honor Boise State faculty members who have demonstrated ongoing commitment, expertise and accomplishments in teaching, research/creative activities or professionally related service. Reeder joined the Communication faculty in 2000. She won the nationally-recognized Carnegie Foundation Idaho Professor of the Year award in 2007.

In addition to teaching for Boise State University, Reeder regularly provides training and speeches to business and community groups like DirecTV, Bank of the Cascades, and Citi Credit Cards.  She appears on local and national television to discuss current research on relationships and communication, such as “Today’s 6” on KIVI (ABC affiliate) and “The Today Show” on NBC.  Recently, she became an expert blogger for PsychologyToday.com.

Ben Shedd

Dr. Natalie Nelson-Marsh’s article “Virtual Matters: Exploring the Communicative Accomplishment of Virtual Work and Virtual Ethnography” (MS #1046) has been posted in Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations.
http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/communication_facpubs/44

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