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Alumni Spotlight
Yvonne Kline graduated from Penn State York with her Communication Arts and Sciences degree in May, 2004. She has just received her Master's degree in Communication Studies, from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and will continue this fall working toward her doctorate at the University of South Florida.
Yvonne has donated a copy of her master's thesis to the Penn State York Lee R. Glatfelter library, and promises to do the same with her Ph.D. thesis. Her Master's thesis is titled "Deconstructing the Identity of 'Mental Illness'". The paper will be cataloged and added to the collection, after which it will be available for circulation for any who may want to read it.
You can read more about Yvonne on our Alumni page.
The Program of Communication, Arts, and Sciences cordially invites you to the induction ceremony
Lambda Pi Eta Pi Rho of Penn State York
Lambda Pi Eta (LPH), founded in 1985, is the official communication studies honor society of the National Communication Association (NCA) and an accredited member of the Association of College Honor Societies. LPH has active chapters at four-year colleges and universities worldwide. LPH represents what Aristotle described in his book Rhetoric as three ingredients of persuasion: Logos (Lambda) meaning logic, Pathos (Pi) relating to emotion and Ethos (Eta) defined as character credibility, and ethics.
Congratulations to the following students who will be inducted:
- Megan L. Hoffer
- Kaitlyn S. Kosalek
- Aaron J. Kraft
- Caitlin D. Markline
- Theresa L. Rosenberry
- Taylor M. Schwienebart
- Madeline Snyder
- Lera N. Tyler
April 15, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
Academic Awards Banquet
Penn State York
2010 Induction Ceremony - Lambda Pi Eta Pi Rho Chapter
Left to right, Michael “Mitch” Manning, Newell Rinehart, Sandra Bush, Amy Jacobs-Carrozza, Dr. Jane Sutton, associate professor of communication arts and sciences; Dr. Deborah Eicher-Catt, assistant professor of communication arts and sciences; and Dr. Joe Downing, assistant professor of communication arts and sciences.
Students Work Together to Help the Troops
Penn State York students raised money by selling dog tags to purchase items for care packages to be sent to soldiers in Afghanistan.
Penn State York CAS Club Presents a Lecture & Discussion by Dr Deborah Eicher-Catt
Recovering the Voice of Embodied Dialogue: Edward Sapir's Contributions
September 13, 2007
12:00 p.m.
Community Room, Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center
Dr. Eicher-Catt previously taught at Penn State York in the Communication Arts & Sciences Department. She now resides in California and teaches at California State University East Bay
National Communication Association Undergraduate Research Award
The National Communication Association provides an opportunity for departmental members to honor undergraduate communication students with their research projects. Research projects may be single or multiple authors.
NCA’s criteria state that the research project should:- Address a topic that is significant to the study of communication.
- Reveal familiarity with the existing literature on the topic and also make some contribution to that literature.
- Study the topic through means that are relevant and appropriate to it.
- Give evidence of rigorous and thoughtful inquiry into the topic.
- Use a style of presentation appropriate to the topic and to the norms of the discipline.
On Monday April 23, students majoring in Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State York competed for this award. The papers presented were:
“The China Syndrome and Three Mile Island: Fiction versus Non-Fiction” by Sheila E. Geib (CAS496A: Independent Study - Environmental Rhetoric, directed by Dr. Jane Sutton)
“Resident Perception of Nurse Communication and the Experience of Intimacy in Long-Term Care” by Julie Taylor, Travis Post, & Jeff Donnelly (CAS497K: Qualitative Inquiry about Communication, directed by Dr. Kaori Ishida)
“Intercultural Miscommunications: Cultural and Linguistic Barriers among the ESL Population and United States’ Health Care Providers” by Julie Cassel (CAS 453 Health Communication Theory directed by Dr. Jacqueline Barnett.
The paper “Resident Perception of Nurse Communication and the Experience of Intimacy in Long-Term Care” was selected to receive this prestigious national award. Go to http://www.natcom.org/UndergradResearch
Congratulations Julie Taylor, Travis Post, and Jeff Donnelly.
Can Diversity, as a "Value," be Embodied? A Phenomenological Interrogation of US American Culture
Guest Lecture by:
Dr. Jacqueline Martinez - Associate Professor of Communication
Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, November 9, 2006
Time: 12:00 - 1:15 p.m.
Place: Community Room in Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center,
Penn State York
Announcing the Penn State International Program in Communication Arts and Sciences Rome 2006
In the summer of 2006, the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State University will offer a six-week study-abroad program in Rome. The International Program in Communication Arts & Sciences offers a unique opportunity for students to explore the sights and sounds of contemporary Rome while taking courses in Italian film, the rhetoric of travel and tourism, and the arts and architecture of Rome and Italy.
Classroom work is enhanced by guided explorations in Rome and throughout Italy, so that students may experience for themselves the complex layering of history, art, and culture that has drawn travelers to Rome for centuries as pilgrims and tourists.
Students will visit archeological sites, streets, buildings, piazzas, and museums. The central focus of the summer will be on Rome, with added travel to Pompeii, Paestum, Florence, Venice, and Tuscan hill towns, where we will study the art, architecture, and culture of Rome and Italy over the centuries, from ancient Roman and Etruscan times through medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, the Risorgimento, twentieth-century and contemporary Rome, Florence, and Venice.
For more information, visit: International Program in Communication Arts & Sciences -- Rome 2006
Dr. Deborah Eicher-Catt Recently Interviewed by National Correspondent
Dr. Deborah Eicher-Catt was recently interviewed by a national correspondent (from the Newswire agency) about her research on non-custodial mothers.
CAS Student Publishes Paper
Mina Edmondson, will have her paper, "A Semiotic Analysis of Hydraulic Metaphors and the Phenomena of Immigration," published in the June 2006 issue of the Kentucky Journal of Communication. The June issue is devoted to outstanding undergraduate scholarship in the discipline of Communication for the last year. The call for manuscripts was a national call, so Mina competed with undergraduates from all over the United States. Mina wrote the original version of this paper for Dr. Deborah Eicher-Catt's Culture and the Signs of Communication class in Spring 2005. Congratulations Mina!
Congratulations, Laura!
The CAS Department salutes you!
Laura Lamar was recently selected as one of the Outstanding
Students in Higher Education in Pennsylvania for 2006 by the Pennsylvania
Association for Adult Continuing Education. Read
more ...
CAS Undergraduate Completes Internship!
Audra Weaver, a sophomore in the Department of Communication Arts &
Sciences, is completing a paid-internship through the United Way of York County this Spring 2006 semester.
Specifically, Audra is helping the Director of Communications and the Director
of Community Initiatives with press releases, an on-line community calendar,
assisting in creating and distributing other media and information, and helping with various other
facets of the United Way's 2006 Campaign.
Currently, Audra is taking courses in Communication Theory, Organizational Communication, Meteorology, and American Jazz Music.
When asked what the internship means to her, Audra replied, "Working with an organization like the United Way really demonstrates so many organizational communication practices and theories I have been learning about. I have seen multiple examples and ways that it works as a system in a larger and ever-changing environment. Everyone at the United Way works on teams and feedback is a major part of how they determine planning and implementing their campaign every year. It really is a dynamic process."
Welcome Dr. Ishida to CAS!
Dr. Kaori Ishida joins the CAS faculty at Penn State York Fall 2005! Find out more about our newest faculty member.
What do Roman gladiator spectacles, reality television, and contemporary
politics have in common with communication?
