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Current Ph.D. Advisees:
Yan Qin (expected graduation: spring 2021)
Victoria Ledford (expected graduation: spring 2021)
Yuan Wang (expected graduation: spring 2022)
Kathryn Thier (expected graduation: spring 2023)
Tong Lin (expected graduation: spring 2024)
Former Ph.D. Advisees:
Zexin Ma, Graduation (2018)
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Dissertation: “Persuasive effects of narratives in immersive mediated environments”
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Recipient of the Charles Richardson Award for the most outstanding Ph.D. student in the department
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Current employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Communication,Journalism, and Public Relations, Oakland University
Irina Iles, Graduation (2017)
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Dissertation: “Improving chronic illness medication adherence: A counterfactual thinking-based model of persuasive communication”
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Recipient of the Charles Richardson Award for the most outstanding Ph.D. student in the department
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Current employment: Cancer Prevention Fellow, National Cancer Institute
Bo Yang, Graduation (2017)
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Dissertation: “Impact of web content feedback system on the effectiveness of health promotion messages on YouTube: A norms based inquiry”
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Current employment: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Arizona
Kelly Madden Daily, Graduation (2014)
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Dissertation: “Explicating the Hostile Media Perception: How source credibility influences partisans’ responses to balanced news coverage of health policies”
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Recipient of the Charles Richardson Award for the most outstanding Ph.D. student in the department
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Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Communication, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
Jarim Kim, Graduation (2014)
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Dissertation: “The impact of consideration of future consequences and temporal framing on acceptance of the human papillomavirus vaccine”
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Current employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Yonsei University, South Korea