COMMUNICATION - September 2008

 

WIU Senior Interns in Nation's Capitol

Western Illinois University senior Andria Bernard (Winfield, IL), a communication major with minors in Spanish, marketing and broadcasting, snagged a golden opportunity to intern with the widely known Double R Productions company in Washington D.C. this summer.

"Traveling to Washington to live there was exciting in itself considering I had never been there before," Bernard said.

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Chung, S., Fink, E. L, & Kaplowitz, S. A. (2008). The Comparative Statics and Dynamics of Beliefs: The Effect of Message Discrepancy and Source Credibility. Communication Monographs, 75,139-170.

Chung, S., & Fink, E. L. (2008). The Cognitive Dynamics of Beliefs: The Effect of Information on Message Processing. Human Communication Research, 34, 477-504.

Pete Jorgensen presented a three-part training and development workshop on "Building High Performance Teams: Nuts, bolts, bells and whistles" to four rural Critical Access Hospitals via video conference technology at the behest of AHEC (Area Health Education Center) over the first three weeks of August. Western Illinois AHEC provides educational programming to rural health care providers at Critical Access Hospitals throughout Illinois. Because of geographic distance and the expense and hardship of travel for providers, Western Illinois AHEC offers many of its programs through live video conference hook-up.