At this year’s School of Communication, “Comm Day,” I was delighted to receive the 2020 Peer Mentor Award. Nominated and voted upon by my peers, this award recognize the informal mentoring that occurs within a department. It was nice to know that the long talks about statistical analyses, research ideas, and navigating intradepartmental relationships were helpful!

Informal support – whether one is functioning as teacher, sympathetic shoulder, or cheerleader – helps a department function, and I was one among many supportive graduate colleages in the School.

On May 5th I had the pleasure of having my dissertation officially accepted by The Ohio State University’s graduate school.

It’s title was: More Than Partisans: Factors that Promote and Constrain Partisan Selective Exposure with Implications for Political Polarization