Hi there--In case you know any students looking for a great Ph.D. program (notice the familiar name in the faculty:-)) Sabryna October 11, 2006 Dear Colleague: The UIC Communication Department announces a Ph.D. program with a new technology emphasis. Could you please encourage promising Master's-level graduate students to apply? The program recognizes the prominence of new media, and aims to develop research strategies to study the consequences of channels such as the internet. The program builds on faculty and university strength and research and also on the successful M.A. program in Communication. The Department has unique structural advantages. We work closely with the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory housed in the Computer Science Department. A joint effort of the College of Engineering and School of Art & Design, the lab is the oldest formal collaboration between engineering and art in the United States and is the pre-eminent virtual reality and high-speed networking research lab in the world. The Department is the birthplace and current home of New Media and Society, the leading journal in the field. Our central location in an international communication hub enhances research opportunities. Besides national media outlets and production companies, Chicago is headquarters to Motorola, Tellabs, SBC and new media companies and hosts one of the first and busiest Internet Network Access Points (NAP). The Department hosted a recent Summit on Industry-Academy Alliances, and its advisory board of ranking executives in new technology and related industries will allow students to apply their knowledge and research skills to real-world settings. Besides well-known scholars working in technology, the faculty includes scholars in fields such as politics, visual communication, rhetoric, diversity, history, as well as other areas, along with younger scholars. We hope your top Master's graduates will pursue admission. The enclosed poster has a reply card, and the brochure provides program details. If you need more information, please see the web site http://www.uic.edu/depts./comm, and do not hesitate to get in touch with me. Cordially, Andrew Rojecki Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies GRADUATE FACULTY Kevin G. Barnhurst Hui-Ching Chang James A. Danowski Doris Graber Patricia Harkin John A. Jones Richard R. John Steve Jones Bruce Lambert Rebecca Ann Lind Victor Margolin Deirdre McCloskey John Nerone Andrew Rojecki Jim Sosnoski -- Sabryna Cornish Adjunct lecturer Communications BSB 1148B University of Illinois at Chicago "I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top." -- An English Professor, Ohio University