CU Boulder CMCI Communication

Next up is Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Dr. Jo Marras Tate!

This summer Dr. Jo had the opportunity to be a fellow at the 2024 Animal Studies Summer Institute hosted by the Center of Advanced Study at the University of Illinois where she participated in lectures and activities that included an animal farm visit and even meeting bug ambassadors (meet Rhinocerous Beetle!).

Jo also went to Brazil to visit family!

In our next "Where in the World was CU COMM this Summer" series: Dr. David Boromisza Habashi!

Dr. DBH was in Egypt, representing CMCI as his son at Marsa Matrouh rocked a CMCI hat.

Secondly, he was at the Gold Coast for the International Communciation Association Conference, where many COMM folks attended, like graduate student Laine Zizka, and Professors Natasha Shrikant and Leah Sprain. The group pic shows Dr. Sprain and Dr. DBH at the Language and Social Interaction (LSI) gathering with Evelyn Ho, our last JJones speaker and Tamar Katriel, a famous LSI scholar!

Up first, we’ve got Dr. Michael Burns who did an instagram takeover last Friday while in Paris!

It was so awesome to listen directly from him as he covered the Olympics for the Today Show. Prior to France, Dr. Burns was in Rome, Florence, Vienna, and Salzburg!

Congratulations to Dr. Ruth Hickerson Dominski for being promoted to Teaching Professor!

Dr. Hickerson Dominski previously served as a college administrator, focusing on student retention and persistence. This informed her work on the creation, implementation, and assessment of student success, faculty development, and universal design for learning programs. Dr. Hickerson Dominski’s research combines the academic areas of interpersonal communication, language and social interaction, and family communication into a comprehensive agenda that primarily focuses on how language is used both as a sense-making technique and as a means to construct the identity of self and others.

Fun Fact: Teaching Professors are principal instructors and hold the highest ranking and position across CU Boulder’s Teaching Professor Series. 🤩

Congratulations again, Dr. Hickerson Dominski! We are so proud to have you as a member of our department.

Another piece of amazing department news coming your way! We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Phaedra Pezzullo has been promoted to full Professor!

Dr. Pezzullo has been an example of interdisciplinary work and vast accomplishments in the field of Environmental Communication. She is well known across our campus, as part of Inside The Greenhouse and founder and Co-Director of C3BC (the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change), and the Just Transition Collaborative. Her promotion is not only a recognition of how hard she’s worked, but also a way to note how much she’s touched the lives of her students, colleagues, and the many communities she serves.

A huge congratulations, Dr. Pezzullo! We are so lucky to have you as a part of our department.