[Air-l] new Ph.D. program

[Sabryna Cornish]

Hi there--In case you know any students looking for a great Ph.D. 
program (notice the familiar name in the faculty:-))

Sabryna


October 11, 2006
Dear Colleague:
The UIC Communication Department announces a Ph.D. program with a new 
technology emphasis. Could you please encourage promising 
Master's-level graduate students to apply?
The program recognizes the prominence of new media, and aims to 
develop research strategies to study the consequences of channels 
such as the internet. The program builds on faculty and university 
strength and research and also on the successful M.A. program in 
Communication.
The Department has unique structural advantages. We work closely with 
the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory housed in the Computer 
Science Department. A joint effort of the College of Engineering and 
School of Art & Design, the lab is the oldest formal collaboration 
between engineering and art in the United States and is the 
pre-eminent virtual reality and high-speed networking research lab in 
the world. The Department is the birthplace and current home of New 
Media and Society, the leading journal in the field.
Our central location in an international communication hub enhances 
research opportunities. Besides national media outlets and production 
companies, Chicago is headquarters to Motorola, Tellabs, SBC and new 
media companies and hosts one of the first and busiest Internet 
Network Access Points (NAP). The Department hosted a recent Summit on 
Industry-Academy Alliances, and its advisory board of ranking 
executives in new technology and related industries will allow 
students to apply their knowledge and research skills to real-world 
settings.
Besides well-known scholars working in technology, the faculty 
includes scholars in fields such as politics, visual communication, 
rhetoric, diversity, history, as well as other areas, along with 
younger scholars.
We hope your top Master's graduates will pursue admission. The 
enclosed poster has a reply card, and the brochure provides program 
details. If you need more information, please see the web site 
http://www.uic.edu/depts./comm, and do not hesitate to get in touch 
with me.

Cordially,


Andrew Rojecki
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies


GRADUATE FACULTY
Kevin G. Barnhurst
Hui-Ching Chang
James A. Danowski
Doris Graber
Patricia Harkin
John A. Jones
Richard R. John
Steve Jones
Bruce Lambert
Rebecca Ann Lind
Victor Margolin
Deirdre McCloskey
John Nerone
Andrew Rojecki
Jim Sosnoski


-- 
Sabryna Cornish
Adjunct lecturer
Communications
BSB 1148B
University of Illinois at Chicago

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