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November 2004

Melissa Click was featured in the November 4, 2004 MizzouWeekly article, "It's a good thing".

Dr. Michael Porter was quoted in the November 2, 2004 Columbia Missourian article "Realism addicts video athletes".

Dr. Bill Benoit was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Alumni Association.

September 2004

Loren & Gus Reid were featured in the August 26, 2004 issue of the Columbia Missourian in the article "Young at Heart".

Dr. Bill Benoit was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Alumni Association on September 31, 2004 in Columbia.

July 2004

We had a couple of Communication people in the Maplewood Barn Community Theatre production of "To Kill a Moclingbird". Dr. Michael Kramer fulfilled the role of Heck Tate, Sheriff. Corey Woodward, a Comm Graduate, was Boo Radley. Dr. Lee Wilkins, a Journalism Professor, was also in the production

June 2004

Dr. Maria Dixon has had her article "Silencing the Lambs: The Catholic Church's Response to the 2002 Sexual Abuse Scandal" published in the March 2004 issue of the Journal of Communication and Religion.

Communication graduate, Nabiha Calcuttawala, was featured in the May 17, 2004 issue of the Columbia Missourian

Congratulations to Melissa Click. She was a recipient of the "Tribute to MU Women 2004 Award."

May 2004

Dr. Michael Kramer was "tapped" out on Tap Day by the "Morterboard" Society.

Dr. Mary-Jeanette Smythe was one of the presenters at the University of Ulster in Ireland.

BrianKaylor, Bachelor student, received a Top Paper Award for his paper, "Religion, Rhetoric, and a Reverend: Politics and Faith Collide in the 2004 Democratic Presidential Primary Debates"

March 2004

Dr. Bill Benoit and Kevin Stein were featured in the February 18, 2004 issue of the News-Journal of Mountain Grove, MO in the article "Study shows presidential candidates positive in TV talk show statements".

Joy Piazza received the Winifred Bryan Horner Scholarship.

February 2004

Helen Atkinson has been selected to receive a "2004 Arts and Science Blue Chalk Award" for her excellent record as an advisor.

Dr. Mitchell McKinney and Dr. Glenn Hansen participated in Iowa caucus activities on January 19, 2004

Maria Dixon has been awarded a Minority Teaching Fellowship at the University of Nebraska in the Department of Communication.

January 2004

Dr. Michael Kramer has had his book "Managing Uncertainty in Organizational Communication" published by lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Dr. Mitchell McKinney is one of the editors of the book "The Millennium Election. It includes chapters by Mitchell McKinney, Elizabeth Dudash and Rebecca Verser.

Student worker, Matt Newlin, was selected as one of eight students chosen from 10 states for the "Regional 10-Minute Play" competition that is part of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival