Myrick named AEJMC Emerging Scholar
Assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick has been named one of four Emerging Scholars by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
As part of the award, Myrick received a grant for her research proposal, “Making the Environment Healthy: An Experimental Test of the Effects of Framing Climate Change as a Public Health Issue.” The grant will fund and support her research.
Alumna Ammina Kothari, PhD’12, also received an Emerging Scholar grant for “UK Media Coverage of the Syrian Humanitarian Crisis.” She now is an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Communication.
They were chosen from a field of 41 applicants for the award. Launched in 2010, the Emerging Scholars program aims to find and foster the work of promising scholars by providing funding for research or teaching projects, according to the group’s website, and partnering each recipient with a mentor.
Myrick’s research goal is to examine the effects of using social media to generate awareness of the health consequences of a changing climate.
In the past two years, half of the national winners of the AEJMC Emerging Scholar awards have been Media School faculty or alumni. Last year, journalism assistant professor Gerry Lanosga and alumna Lindita Camaj, PhD’11, received the honors.
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