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Student-led Initiative WE ARE ONE TEAM (WA1T) honored with prestigious NCAA Award for Diversity & Inclusion

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WE ARE ONE TEAM (WA1T), a campus-wide initiative founded by SMC doctoral students Yannick Kluch, Chelsea Kaunert, and Christian Thompson,  has been honored with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Minority Opportunities Athletic Association’s 2017 Award for Diversity and Inclusion.
 
Given that there are 1,121 NCAA member colleges and universities, this is an immense honor for BGSU and an excellent example of the leadership of SMC graduate students. WE ARE ONE TEAM (WA1T) is a campus-wide initiative that aims to promote social justice through the power of sport at BGSU. Various SMC faculty members have worked with and/or contributed to the initiative’s programming, including Drs. Lara Martin Lengel, Sandra Faulkner, Terry Rentner, and Lisa Hanasono.
 
“We are thrilled and humbled to receive this prestigious award for our work with WE ARE ONE TEAM (WA1T) at BGSU,” said Kluch, who is in his second year as the president of the initiative. “On behalf of WE ARE ONE TEAM (WA1T), I would like to thank the NCAA for this honor. Our work would not be possible without the hard work of our student and faculty leaders, the BGSU athletics staff, and our over 25 partners across the university. What unites us is a passion for social justice and sport, and I’m beyond happy to see this passion be rewarded and recognized on a national level.”
 
The award will bring national recognition to WE ARE ONE TEAM (WA1T), BGSU Athletics, and the university in general. Congratulations on this tremendous honor, WE ARE ONE TEAM (WA1T)!


DHIMAN CHATTOPADHYA (3rd YEAR PH.D STUDENT) AND ZEHUI DAI (3rd YEAR PH.D STUDENT) RECEIVED A WARD

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Dhiman Chattopadhyay, a 3rd year Ph. D student, was selected as the recipient of Top Student Paper from International and Intercultural Communication Division. His Title of paper is Beautiful Forever: Positionality, motives, identity and otherization in cultural narratives– emerging discourses in online intercultural communication platform.

Zehui Dai, a 3rd year Ph. D student, was selected as the recipient of Top Student Paper with Chen Yang (SMC alumni who graduated from BGSU last year) the recipients of Top Student Paper from Visual Communication Division with Chen Yang (SMC alumni who graduated from BGSU last year). The title of paper is Feminist Civic Calling: A Visual Analysis of Chinese Feminist Activism on Weibo.

DR. LAURA STAFFORD IS THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2016 BERNARD J. BROMMEL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP OR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE IN FAMILY COMMUNICATION OF THE NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION.

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Dr. Laura Stafford, director of the Bowling Green State University School of Media and Communication was recognized the recipient of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship or Distinguished Service in Family Communication.

By any metric, Laura Stafford has been a highly-productive scholar, authoring approximately 70 publications [40 journal articles, three books (authored or edited), and multiple chapters and book reviews]. What sets her apart, however, is that her work consistently pushes the field of Communication in new directions; her work truly stands the test of time. Stafford’s research on relational maintenance as well as her research on distance and communication have influenced multiple generations of researchers, and her groundbreaking book (with C. Bayer) on parent-child communication, published in 1993, titled Interaction Between Parents and Children (Sage), was among the “first to offer an interdisciplinary integration of research on parent-child interaction.”

Dr. Stafford will be formally recognized at the award ceremony during the NCA 102nd Annual Convention in Philadelphia. The Awards Presentation follows the NCA Presidential Address on Saturday, November 12 that begins at 5:00 p.m. in Grand Salon E – Level 5 in the Marriott Downtown.