Spring 2022 – COMM 3690
I will be teaching COMM 3690: Making Brands Stick for…
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Top Paper at NCA 2021
HCAT presented multiple papers at NCA 2021, including a Top…
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Film Festivals 2021
HCAT lab goes to Sundance Film Festival every year. It’s…
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Drone Pilots
Both Kevin John and I bought drones recently with an…
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Summer of Chicken
The lab noticed lots of new chicken places and we…
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Garth Brooks at Rice-Eccles
In July 2021, Garth Brooks put on a concert at…
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Tribeca 2021
In 2021, Tribeca Film Festival was virtual. HCAT lab enjoyed…
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2021 Summer Writing Retreat
In June 2021, we hosted a summer writing retreat for…
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Fall 2021: Strat Com & Pandemics Course
I will be teaching COMM 3580: Strategic Communication & Pandemics…
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Helen honored with Susan Cooper Jones Endowed Fellowship in Cancer Research
Helen Lillie was awarded the prestigious Susan Cooper Jones Endowed…
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How to Pursue Funding in the Humanities
I am currently the Associate Dean for Research in the…
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Helen publishes multiple articles on Communication & Emotion
Dr. Helen Lillie is an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in HCAT…
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HCAT wins Utah Grand Challenge Grant
HCAT just won a Utah Grand Challenge grant. This mechanism…
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Sundance 2021
Due to COVID, Sundance 2021 was virtual this year. I…
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Manu wins Miller Dissertation Award
Manusheela “Manu” Pokharel (Ph.D., 2019) was recently awarded the Gerald…
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Courtney win Early Career Scholar Award from HCD
Courtney Lynam Scherr will receive the Early Career Scholar Award…
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NIH R01 to study Personalized Messaging
Led by Yelena Wu, we recently won an NIH R01…
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New Course for Fall 2020
Helen Lillie and I created a new course for Fall…
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HCAT wins COVID seed grant
HCAT won funding from the Immunology, Inflammation, and Infectious Disease…
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Sean heads to the University of Texas at Austin
After two years as a postdoctoral fellow in HCAT lab,…
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Sundance 2020
One of our passions is attending Sundance Film Festival every…
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Top Paper in BEA Research Division
HCAT lab received some great news in January: a paper…
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Chelsea goes to Georgia
Chelsea Ratcliff will join the faculty at the University of…
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New CIO article published in PEC
Several years ago, HCAT published an article focused on cancer…
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Manu goes to Texas State
HCAT lab is excited to announce that Manusheela Pokharel accepted…
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Summer 2019: Seven New Datasets
In Summer 2019, HCAT lab collected 7 new datasets. Rachael…
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Helen Lillie joins HCAT as a Postdoc
Helen Lillie completed her Ph.D. in May 2019 at the…
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2018-2019: Training, Training, Training
For most of the 2018-2019 school year, HCAT lab was…
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HCAT Day Retreat
With the NCA submission deadline looming, HCAT lab decided to…
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Sundance 2019
Once again, HCAT lab hit Sundance Film Festival hard. We…
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Manu publishes article in Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Manu published the first article from her dissertation in the…
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2018 HCAT Writing Retreat
The 2018 HCAT Writing Retreat was held in Adobe House…
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Sean Upshaw joins HCAT as a Postdoc
Dr. Sean Upshaw recently joined HCAT lab as a…
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Real HCAT
Kevin John, Manu, Jay, Jor, and I attended an amazing…
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HCAT wins another grant
All our summer grant writing is paying off. We…
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Summer 2018 Writing Retreat: Keef House
HCAT lab had another writing retreat. In August 2018, we…
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Chocolate Pie
My grandma Myrtle Wienke used to make the best chocolate…
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Another summer, another article in Delta Sky Magazine
HCAT lab was featured in Sky Magazine (again). Sky Magazine…
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Grant writing in the Summer
We’ve been writing lots of grants this summer: two R01s,…
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High Risk, High Reward Symposium
Every year, NIH New Innovators are invited to Bethesda to…
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Manu accepted to NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar
Manu will attend the NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar in July…
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Kate presents parasocial research in Prague
Kate hopped the pond and attended ICA in Prague. While…
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Teaching Grad Stats in the Summer
Most summers I teach an introductory graduate stats course (HEDU…
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ADR: Snapshot of the College
In addition to my research and teaching duties, I currently…
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Manu wins Fellowship
Manu Pokharel has been awarded the prestigious Steffensen Cannon Fellowship…
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March: Dogfight
If you ran into a lab member in March, then…
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Spring: research, research, research
HCAT has lots of research in progress. We are writing…
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Kate joins the U of Wisconsin
Kate Christy has agreed to join the faculty at the…
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Manu defends her prospectus
Manu successfully defended her prospectus on February 7th, 2018. In…
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Sundance 2018
We love to go to Sundance Film Festival each year…
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Death narrative research in Health Psychology
Mindy Krakow’s excellent dissertation research on death narratives was recently…
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HCAT: The Last Jedi
HCAT went to the premiere of Star Wars: The Last…
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L16 light camera
The lab just purchased a 16 lens Light camera. We…
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HCAT: Ragnarok
HCAT headed out to the fan event showing of Thor:Ragnarok.…
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Best Article in Risk Analysis
We just found out our 2017 publication in Risk Analysis…
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2017 HCAT Writing Retreat – Adobe House
Once again, HCAT lab hosted a writing retreat in beautiful…
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Kevin John interviewed about Melanoma
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The Dread Professor Jensen
Every HCAT writing retreat begins with an roundtable session where…
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NIH grant: slow and steady
Year 2 of my NIH New Innovator grant is coming…
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Kevin John’s Dissertation Published in JHC
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HCAT day retreat in Chicago
HCAT decided to host a day retreat during the AEJMC…
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Manu finishes her comps!
Manusheela completed her comprehensive exams on June 16th, 2017, after…
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HCAT in Sky Magazine
Sky Magazine published an article about “The future of Early…
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Krieghbaum Under 40 Award
I will receive the Krieghbaum Under 40 Award at the…
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College Writing Retreat
In June, I hosted the first College of Humanities writing…
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Kate Publishes Admiration Research in JHC!
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Mug Club
HCAT likes to go to movies. To that end, we…
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In Memoriam: Robert N. Yale
HCAT member Robert N. Yale passed away April 2017 following…
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Shuffleboard
Ever since the 2013 Writing Retreat, we’ve been obsessed with…
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HCAT nabs top paper at DCHC
The psych reactance crew won the top paper at the…
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Collecting data in Altamont, UT
HCAT headed to Altamont, UT (2 hours from Salt Lake…
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R&R at the theater?
KKJ and I hatched a plan: meet at the Jordan…
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Immersion Lab on KSL
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=42993197&nid=148&title=u-researchers-can-study-inversions-year-round-with-60k-camera Our Immersion Lab was featured on KSL. They visited…
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Can UV photos improve skin cancer control?
Our lab has been with ultraviolet (UV) imagery for several…
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VR video – A Bad Air Day in Salt Lake City
My lab recently purchased a Nokia Ozo pro grade immersive…
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HCAT goes to Sundance 2017
The Sundance Film Festival is a wonderful gathering of media…
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iMotions training
HCAT lab recently purchased a biophysiological measurement system from iMotions.…
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Grad seminar explores immersion
In Fall 2016 I taught a 7000-level grad seminar called…
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A Note of Congrats from the Governor of Montana
One of the perks of being from a state with…
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2016 HCAT Writing Retreat
HCAT lab held another writing retreat October 12th – 16th,…
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HCAT wins Golden Monograph (two years in a row)!
The Golden Anniversary Monograph Award is presented to the most outstanding…
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HCAT on the Madison River
HCAT lab spent the 4th of July along the Madison…
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June: A month of Grant Writing
June is a major deadline for NIH. Given that, HCAT…
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Montana State Champs – 20 years later
Approximately 20 years ago, I had the pleasure of participating…
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Manu to NCA
Manusheela Pokharel had a manuscript accepted to the National Communication…
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HCAT goes Mile High
HCAT had a manuscript accepted to the American Public Health Association…
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Cartoon Kevin
One of Kevin John’s students gave him a great gift: a cartoon…
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Infographic: Cancer Research Funding 2017
I created this infographic to teach people about federal funding…
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HCAT at BEA in Las Vegas
Mindy Krakow and I traveled to BEA this year to…
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Rob Yale’s Battle
Robert Yale, HCAT lab member and Assistant Professor at…
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College Forensics: 15 years later
I competed in collegiate forensics (also known as speech and…
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Kate Christy joins HCAT as a Post-Doc
I am extremely excited to announce that Kate Christy…
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Mindy Krakow wins Dissertation Award!
One of my former advisees, Mindy Krakow, just won the…
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Ozo!
We just purchased a Nokia Ozo camera for the Immersion…
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HCAT introduces new logo
We’ve been working on a new logo for the HCAT…
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HCAT goes to the 2016 Sundance Film Festival
HCAT lab had fun at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival…
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Low-dose aspirin research published in Cancer Epidemiology
The Huntsman Cancer Institute provided us with seed funding to…
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Andy King – Top Paper at BEA
Andy King scored a Top Paper in the Research Division…
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Lisa Guntzviller goes to Illinois
Lisa Guntzviller, who has been a member of HCAT since…
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HCAT goes to the premiere of Star Wars VII
HCAT lab is full of Star Wars fans. Given that,…
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HCAT wins Top Paper at NCA
HCAT claimed Top Paper honors in the Communication & Technology…
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HCAT lab wins Golden Monograph
The Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards were created to mark NCA’s…
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Mindy Krakow goes to NCI
Mindy Krakow has been awarded a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship at…
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NIH New Innovator Award
I just received a 5 year, $2.25 million grant from the…
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Chamber House Writing Retreat – Fall 2015
HCAT lab held another writing retreat October 8th – 15th,…
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Jake becomes Associate Dean for Research
I accepted the position of Associate Dean for Research in…
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The Origin Place of Jake
I grew up on a little farm outside of Circle,…
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Jake Featured in Countering Cancer Series
Jake was recently featured as in the series, “Countering Cancer:…
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Ultraviolet (UV) Photography at the Museum
We have developed a high performance, monochrome UV camera to…
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Kevin John – Director of Eye Tracking at BYU
Kevin John (we call him “KKJ”) accepted a tenure track…
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Jake featured on NPR
Jake was recently featured on NPR’s On the Media. He…
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Dogfish Beer in Utah?
Woolrich – the flannel shirt maker – and dogfish head…
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Courtney Scherr accepts faculty position at Northwestern
Courtney Scherr, HCAT lab member since her days at Purdue…
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NCA 2014 – At the Parade
Andy King, Jor, and I went to a big Thanksgiving…
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Throwback – My honors lecture as a junior at Concordia College
Long, long ago in the cold land of Moorhead, MN,…
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Lisa wins a Top Paper
Lisa Guntzviller had a Top Paper in the Health Com…
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Writing Retreat at the Roundabout House
HCAT lab held another writing retreat October 16th – 19th,…
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The Great Beard Contest
In May of 2014, Professor Kevin Coe challenged me to a…
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Are News Coverage & Cancer Funding Related?
CAT lab has spent the last decade quantifying media coverage…
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Guntzviller wins Dissertation Award
Lisa Guntzviller won two dissertation awards: (1) the Outstanding Dissertation…
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HCAT evaluates mammography campaign
HCAT lab received a grant to evaluate a state-wide mammography…
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HCAT goes Curling
HCAT wanted to go curling. But you have to take…
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Jake named Presidential Scholar
For 2014-2017, I am one of six Presidential Scholars at…
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Dallas Writing Retreat
HCAT held a writing retreat March 14th – 17th, 2014…
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Nordic House Writing Retreat in Park City
HCAT lab held another writing retreat October 11th – 14th,…
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Jake wins ICA Young Scholar Award
I received the Young Scholar Award from the International Communication Association…
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Cancer Information Overload
Research has shown that 70% or more of Americans feel…
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Nick heads to the beach
Nick Carcioppolo accepted a tenure track position at the University…
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Mole Crowdsourcing
Can collective effort improve our ability to find suspicious moles?…
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Jersey
Lots of people have a jersey they covet. For me,…
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HCAT wins ComSHER Article of the Year
HCAT took home the inaugural “ComSHER Article of the Year…
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Rob Yale goes to Dallas
Rob Yale accepted a tenure track position in the School…
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The cartoon we made
Once upon a time, I animated a cartoon. It was…
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NCA Grant Writing Workshop
HCAT lab members Andy King, Nick Carcioppolo, and Jake all…
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Jake gets a Pie in the Face
My undergraduate students begged me to “take a pie in…
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OnTrack Tailoring Software
From 2009 – 2010, we developed software to tailor cancer…
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The WORD Intervention
In 2010, we won a subcontract on a Department of…
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How we design studies
Here’s our study design for the EPPM ratio experiment that…
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Cozy Cabin Writing Retreat – Fall 2009
Our first writing retreat was held November 20 – 22nd,…
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Delay Hypothesis Wins Top Paper at NCA
Our research on the delay hypotheses (aka, the Sleeper…
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2009 “To Do” List
I’m a big believer in “to do” lists. Here’s a…
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All the Yo-Yos
Research sometimes requires you to buy odd things. For example,…
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Distinguished Article in Health Communication
Dan O’Keefe and I received the Distinguished Article/Book Chapter in…
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Jake goes to China
In 2008, I journeyed to China as part of a delegation…
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Jake wins Top Paper at ICA
Dan O’Keefe and I received a Top Paper Award from…
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Top Paper in Mass Communication
Ryan Hurley and I were lucky enough to win…
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