Awards & Recognitions

Jessica Gisclair, associate professor and department chair in the School of Communications, received the Public Relations Society of America Tar Heel Chapter Spinks Award at the Annual Professional Development Seminar Oct. 25.

Mary Gowan, professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, has been named to the editorial review board of Human Resource Management.

Megan Squire, an associate professor in the Department of Computing Sciences, has been awarded a research grant for computational resources provided by Amazon for 2013-15.

Megan Squire, associate professor in the Department of Computing Sciences, has been awarded the Best Pedagogical Paper award at the International Association of Computer Information Systems 2012 conference, held Oct. 3-6 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Matthew C. Weidenfeld, an assistant professor of political science, has been jointly awarded the Contemporary Political Theory Annual Prize for an article published in 2011 by Contemporary Political Theory.

Professor Laura Roselle is the newly installed president of the Information Technology & Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

Assistant Professor of Art Juan Obando was recently awarded one of the prestigious 2012 Rhizome Commissions for his MUSEUM MIXTAPE (Dirty South Edition) project.