/news-archive/tag/desiree-doyle/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 02 May 2018 13:49:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/05/02/applied-communication/ Wed, 02 May 2018 13:49:53 +0000 /news/?p=70359 ... Applied Communication Department honors top students, alumni, and community partners]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Applied Communications honored its top students during the department鈥檚 annual awards ceremony on April 19.聽 The award winners include Desiree Doyle and Sayra Crandall as winners of the Distinguished Student Scholar Award. This annual award honors a graduating senior and a graduating master鈥檚 student in the department who have reached the level of distinguished student scholar in applied communication by participating in applied scholarship or creative work, which fosters the co-creation of better social worlds through positive communication. 聽 Lauren Sanders and Krista Woods Calvin received the Student Making a Difference Award, which recognizes undergraduate and graduate students who have made a difference in their community in the area of applied communication. Derrick Newby received a $1,000 scholarship from the Angela Laird Brenton Endowed Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship was started in 2015 in memory of Dr. Angie Laird Brenton, who was a faculty member in the Department of Applied Communications as well as a former dean of the College of Professional Studies. Additionally, Bruce Trimble, director of business development at BridgeWay Hospital in North Little Rock, was honored with the Alumni Making a Difference Award, which recognizes the outstanding contributions of an alumnus who has been instrumental in their community to foster the co-creation of better social worlds through positive communication. The department also recognized the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (糖心Vlog传媒MS) Center for Health Literacy and the 糖心Vlog传媒MS Patient and Family-Centered Care department with the Community Partner Awards. The award recognizes organizations who have partnered with the department to provide high-impact experiences for students, including internships, research projects, and job training. In the upper right photo,聽Dr. April Chatham-Carpenter (left) presents Lauren Sanders (right) with the Student Making a Difference Award.聽]]> /news-archive/2018/02/06/capstone-assignments-land-honors-conference/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:21:08 +0000 /news/?p=69175 ... Capstone assignments land 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students spot at honors conference]]> Two University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Applied Communication students were recently selected to attend the Southern States Communication Association鈥檚 28th annual Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference April 4-8 in Nashville, Tennessee. Nigel Spears of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Desiree Doyle of Sherwood, Arkansas, were among 90 of 134 applicants from across the southern state region to be selected to attend the renowned conference, which provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research with faculty and fellow students, as well as explore graduate study opportunities. “Our department provides students with a variety of high-impact experiences, like capstone research and internships, and this is a great example of these types of experiences,” said April Chatham-Carpenter, chair of the Department of Applied Communication. Spears and Doyle submitted their Capstone papers to conference organizer, Dr. Pamela Bourland-Davis from Georgia Southern University, to be judged by two of the Association鈥檚 faculty members. The judging criteria were based on the topic鈥檚 relevance to the field of communication, writing and organization, research thoroughness, inclusion and support of research methods, and final results or recommendations. Spears scored well with his proposal, 鈥淎frican American Men vs. Society: How We Feel About Protesting.鈥� Doyle鈥檚 submission of 鈥淭he Culture Surrounding Masculinity and Male Victims of Domestic Violence,鈥� ranked among the top 10 percent of papers submitted, leading her to be honored as a 鈥淐levenger Scholar.鈥� “Seeing students apply their research interests to important issues like abuse and masculinity, and race and protests, like Desiree and Nigel have done, fits the mission of our department of helping to co-create better social worlds through positive communication,” Carpenter said. The trip to the conference will be sponsored by funds from the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Signature Undergraduate Research Awards, as well as by the Department of Applied Communication. For more information, contact Carpenter at axchathamca@ualr.edu.  ]]>