Dr. Kathy Krone and her co-author Dr. Erika Kirby have won the National Communication Association’s Charles H. Woolbert Research Award.
The Charles H. Woolbert Research Award is named for one the discipline’s early founders. This is an association-level award whose winners are chosen by the NCA Research Board, celebrating research that has stood the test of time. The Woolbert Award is in recognition of their research:
Kirby, E., & Krone, K. (2002). "The policy exists but you can't really use it": Communication and the structuration of work-family policies. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 30, 50-77.
Drs. Kirby and Krone will receive the award at NCA’s awards ceremony on Saturday November 21, at the association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas.
Erika Kirby is a Professor of Communication at Creighton University and earned her PhD in Communication Studies at UNL in 2000. Kathy Krone is a Professor of Communication Studies and been a member of our faculty since 1991.
Based in Washington D. C. with 8,000 members, the National Communication Association is the discipline’s largest and oldest national association.
Dr. Bill Seiler has won the National Communication Association’s NCA’s Wallace A. Bacon Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award. This is an association-level award whose winners are chosen by a committee of those specializing in instructional communication and former award winners.
Dr. Seiler will receive the award at NCA’s awards ceremony on Saturday November 21, at the association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas.
Dr. Bill Seiler is a Professor of Communication Studies and been a member of our faculty since 1972. He was Chair of Communication Studies for 21 years, ending his term in 2010.
Dr. Bill Seiler is the embodiment of what is best about teacher-scholars in our discipline. His entrepreneurial spirit about teaching and his substantial contributions to basic course and instructional communication, his dedication to his undergraduate and graduate students, his generous mentoring across the discipline, his service contributions and collegiality all make Bill the embodiment of what the Wallace Bacon Award is all about.
Based in Washington D. C. with 8,000 members, the National Communication Association is the discipline’s largest and oldest national association.
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