Category: Speech Communication

Applied Communication Studies professor contributes to field of Health Communication

Applied Communication Studies professor contributes to field of Health Communication

Health communication skills cannot be learned by reading books only, but, rather, by a combination of theory, principles and real case scenarios, according to Applied Communication Studies professor Min Liu.
Applied Communication Studies professor Min Liu.
Along with clinical professor at the School of Pharmacy Lakesha Butler, Liu wrote a textbook called “Pharmacy Patient Communication” that will […]

Students study PR, communication strategies during abroad program in Europe

Students study PR, communication strategies during abroad program in Europe

Nine students from the Applied Communications Studies, Mass Communications, and Public Administration & Policy Analysis Departments traveled to Western Europe in the summer.
Nine students traveled to Western and Eastern Europe this past summer with applied communication professor Sorin Nastasia
The study abroad program to Munich, Germany, and Budapest, Hungary, allowed students to appreciate the peculiarities of the […]

Speech communication department hosts memorial service for Shiller

Speech communication department hosts memorial service for Shiller

Alan Shiller was a teacher in and out of the classroom – to students, to colleagues and even to his wife.
Shiller, 62, died in December and the speech communication department will host a memorial service from 12-1:30 p.m., Feb. 28, at the Center for Spirituality and Sustainability to remember his life.
Alan Shiller, 62, died in […]

STELLAR Student profile: Dawn Embry

STELLAR Student profile: Dawn Embry

Senior speech communication major Dawn Embry always wanted to enlist in the U.S. Air Force and hopes to work with congressional members after graduation, but she never imagined receiving SIUE’s STELLAR Student Award.
Photo courtesy of Dawn Embry
Embry said she was shocked to find out she was offered the award, which honors and develops “some of […]

Speech communication major wins Miss Amazing Pageant's 'miss division'

Speech communication major wins Miss Amazing Pageant’s ‘miss division’

Senior speech communication major Tiffany Eickhoff is amazing – Miss Amazing, to be exact.
Senior speech communication major Tiffany Eickhoff recently won the 'miss division' of the first national Miss Amazing Pageant. Photo courtesy of Tiffany Eickhoff
Eickhoff, who has cerebral palsy, recently won the “miss division” of the first national Miss Amazing Beauty Pageant – a […]

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CAS Events Round Up

The College of Arts and Sciences has a busy schedule of events coming up between now and the end of the semester. Coming up this Monday and Tuesday is this year’s CAS Colloquium titled, “Thinking About the Book,” with a wide variety of lectures and events by SIUE faculty will look at the role of […]

Edwardsville Township Supervisor candidate 'rents' PRSSA members

Edwardsville Township Supervisor candidate ‘rents’ PRSSA members

Speech communication students gained hands-on experience through helping a local politician campaign for the April 9 election.
Frank Miles "rented" members of SIUE's Public Relations Student Society of America to help on his campaign for Edwardsville township supervisor. Miles donated $200 to PRSSA for "renting" the students. Photo courtesy of Stacey Howard
Three students, who are all […]

Speech communication professor researches homosexuality in Chinese society

Speech communication professor researches homosexuality in Chinese society

Speech communication professor Min Liu recently published an article focusing on formality marriage, or Xing Hun, between a gay man and a lesbian woman in China — – a subject very few, if any, have taken on.

Liu’s research, published in the quarterly journal Sexuality and Culture, argues while people in almost every heteronormative society face pressure to […]

SIUE PRSSA chapter named Star Chapter at national conference

SIUE PRSSA chapter named Star Chapter at national conference

SIUE PRSSA students from left: Heidi Wickenhauser, Natalie Pitzer, Sarah Rohner, Laynie Richardson, and Jeni Ross
From Oct. 12 to Oct. 16, five SIUE students from the University’s chapter of the Public Relations Students Society of America (PRSSA) attended the organization’s national conference in San Francisco. The students brought home the coveted Star Chapter Award, which […]

New course gives international exposure

New course gives international exposure

Students in the Speech Communications Department will have first dibs on a new course being offered this summer at SIUE.
The new course is Speech Communications 419 Special Topics, International Public Relations, and is worth six credits to students who are accepted. Even though the course is in speech communications, it is open to students working […]

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