Dana Eisenberg selected as a 2009 NCI Health Communication Intern

Congratulations to Master's student Dana Eisenberg for recently being selected to participate in the National Cancer Institute's Health Communication Internship program. Dana will be working in the Office of Partnerships and Dissemination Initiatives, a component of The Office of Communications and Education. Congratulations Dana!

Parul Jain selected to participate in the 2009 NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar

Congratulations to Parul Jain for being competitively selected to participate in the 2009 Doctoral Honors Conference. Parul will present her submission, International Doctors in the US: Implications for Physician-Patient Communication at the conference which will be held from June 1-5 at West Virginia University. The theme of the conference is “Communication as Engaged Scholarship.” Congratulations Parul!

CHASSIS schedule Spring 2009

So you can mark your calendars for the weeks ahead, here's the CHASSIS lineup for the quarter. We'll be sticking with the Friday 3:30-4:30day/time. Discussion leaders, please send me a working title if you haven't already done so.

Thanks to everyone for their contributions to CHASSIS. We should have stimulating discussions in the weeks ahead!

CHASSIS SCHEDULE SPRING 2009

April 10 - Parul Jain with her McDreamy/McSteamy talk rescheduled fromlast quarter

April 17 - Mike Slater and Dave Ewoldsen on categorization processes

April 24 - Adrienne Chung on entertainment education and effects onreducing stigma associated with illness

May 1 - Renu Pariyadath and Meghan Robertson

(May 8 - COMM day, no meeting)

May 15 - Melanie Sarge (and anyone interested in doing a practice ICA talk)

(May 22 - ICA, no meeting)

May 29 - Greg Hoplamazian