Doctoral Awards

Our doctoral students have won several top paper awards at national and international communication conferences.

2023-24 Waterhouse Family Institute Research Grant, Villanova University
Weiting Tao (PI), Dongqing Xu (Co-PI), and Xiao Liang (Co-PI)

2023 IPRRC Plank Center Award for Leadership in Public Relations
Enzhu Dong and Queenie Li

2023 AEJMC Conference, Race and Public Relations Award
Queenie Li, Weiting Tao, and Dongqing Xu

2023 UM Institute of the Americas Tinker Field Research Grant
Hannah Artman

2022 Page / Johnson Legacy Scholar Grant
Ruoyu Sun

2022 Institute for Public Relations Research Conference (IPRRC) W. Ward White Award for Top Three Papers of Practical Significance
Ruoyu Sun

2021 American Academy of Advertising Graduate Student Scholarship
Su-Yeon Cho

2021 International Communication Association (ICA) Student and Early Career Representative, Global Communication Division
Michael Kim

2021 International Communication Association (ICA) Top Student Paper, Second Place
Michael Kim

2020 Institute for Public Relations Research Conference (IPRRC) Top Ethics Paper
Ruoyu Sun, Huixin Deng, and Sanchary Pal

2018 Kentucky Conference on Health Communication (KCHC) Top Student Paper Award
Wei Peng and Qian Huang