Awards

 

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2023, Honorable mention, Linda Shockley Award for Excellence in Teaching, Champions of Editing, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

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2019-2020, Kopenhaver Center Fellow, Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, Florida International University

 

2019, Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity award, Academic Affairs Faculty Awards, Northern Kentucky University

 

2018, Second place top paper award, Mass Communication and Society division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication: “Errors and corrections in digital news content.”

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2018, Distinguished Reviewer Award, Journal of Media Psychology

 

2017-2018, Page and Johnson Legacy Scholar Award, The Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication, The Pennsylvania State University: “Errors and corrections in digital news content.”

 

2017, Poynter ACES Certificate in Accurate, Audience-Focused Editing

 

2017, Poynter ACES Certificate in Editing

 

2015, Djung Yune Tchoi Memorial Excellence in Teaching Award, The Pennsylvania State University

 

2014, Teaching with Technology Certificate, The Pennsylvania State University

 

2014, The Graduate School Teaching Certificate, The Pennsylvania State University

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2013, Certificate for Online Teaching, The Pennsylvania State University

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2012, Top student paper award for Communication and Social Cognition division, National Communication Association: "Stereotype priming through news story headlines: Use of the word terrorist to prompt implicit associations with Muslims.”

 

2011-2015, University Graduate Fellowship, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, The Pennsylvania State University

 

2008, Certificate of General Honors, University of Missouri

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2007, Don Romero Prize for Magazine Writing, Missouri School of Journalism

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2004-2005, Discovery Fellow, Honors College, University of Missouri

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2004-2008, Dean’s List, University of Missouri

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2004-2008, Walter Williams Scholar (inaugural class), Missouri School of Journalism

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