Melissa Parks Serves as a Fellow at the Taft-Nicholson Environmental Humanities Education Center
This past spring, Melissa Parks was named the inaugural field…
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NCA 2018 Health Communication Preconference
See below for information about the program, “Welcome to the…
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Science History Institute Museum
The Museum inside the Science History Institute is open to…
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Sites in Old Town Philadelphia
I loved wandering around Old Town. Above is an installation…
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Trip to the Science History Institute in Philadelphia
Earlier this year, I won a travel grant to visit…
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Medical Rhetoric in the Archives–a 2019 RSA Summer Seminar
Next summer, the amazing Jordynn Jack and I will be…
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Health Rhetoric and Social Justice 2018
On September 27, 2018 at the CU Boulder campus I’ll…
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My Favorite Source for Finding Great Books to Read
By the Book If only all book reviews were written…
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Benjamin Mann heads to the Rhetoric Society of America Conference in Minneapolis
Ben presented two papers in the City of Lakes, and…
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The first issue of the new journal, Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, is hot off the press!
Click here to check out the issue’s compelling introduction by…
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Book Riot’s 100 Must-Read Books About the History of Medicine
Check out number #56–woot, woot!
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I was interviewed for two podcasts that focus on reproductive health and infertility
The first is called Waiting for Babies, and you can…
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End of the Year Department Party
Photos courtesy of one of our department’s amazing undergraduates, Diego…
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The Chemical Rhetoric Group Goes to Riverdance!
Melissa Parks and I attended a Riverdance 20th Anniversary Tour…
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The ART of Infertility and One More Shot film screening
The ART of Infertility art exhibit visited Salt Lake City…
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Ben Mann publishes two articles!
Chemical Rhetoric Group member and Ph.D. student Benjamin W. Mann…
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Madison Krall Throws Her Hat With Mary Tyler Moore!
Over the holiday break, Madison Krall found her way to…
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Review of Infertility is Published in Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Richardson_2017_Review of Infertility_Bulletin of the History of Medicine The author…
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Anyone Else Compulsively Take Photos of Their Completed To-Do Lists?
No? Just me then?
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Maud May Babcock Plaque Featured in Downtown SLC
Founder of the Department of Speech at the University of…
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Presenting Blake Scott with the Health Communication Division’s Distinguished Book Award at NCA 2017!
I had the great honor of presenting Blake Scott with…
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Winter Break Reading
All of these are outstanding. Two of them I bought…
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The 2017 Winans-Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Public Address
Posing, above, with all of the 2017 awardees (including two…
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More Scenes from Our Fall Writing Retreat
Madison kept smiling under a pile of articles. We caught…
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2017 Park City Writing Retreat Preview
At the beginning of this week, the Chemical Rhetoric Group…
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Keynote Address at the 2017 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium
Last week I headed to the University of Cincinnati for…
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The 2017 Alta Argumentation Conference at Snowbird Resort is in the Books!
Professor Robert Asen gave the keynote address entitled, “Disavowing networks,…
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Chemical Rhetoric has some great summer lab meetings!
Kourtney Maison, Ben Mann, Melissa Parks, and I brainstormed and…
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The Conference Schedule is Up for the Alta Argumentation Conference, July 20-23
http://2017.altaconference.org/ I can’t wait to see you there!!
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Robin with an E
I found this article today where the author writes that…
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Chemical Rhetoric goes to ICA in San Diego
The International Communication Association Conference in San Diego included fun,…
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Dr. Cara Finnegan wins the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Faculty Mentorship Award!!
Here Dr. Cara Finnegan–winner of the 2017 Rhetorical and Communication…
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Chemical Rhetoric Group introduces new logos
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Melissa Parks and Allison Blumling enjoy opening night at Sundance Film Festival
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New book published!
In 2016, I published my second book, Infertility: Tracing…
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Book 2 – Almost Done
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2015 New Investigator Award at NCA
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The 2015 Karl Wallace Memorial Award
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Top Paper in Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine at NCA
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2015 NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar: Faculty Mentor in the Rhetoric Group
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Virgil D. Aldrich Faculty Fellowship
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The incredible Angela Ray visits Utah as the B. Aubrey Fischer Memorial Lecturer
Dr. Ray’s engaging B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture was entitled…
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Rhetoric Writing Retreat 2014
In October 2014, I hosted a rhetoric writing retreat in…
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The 2014 Canyon Social
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Dinner at NCA
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2014 URC Faculty Fellowship
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Attending the Dale E. Brashers Mini-Poster Session at NCA
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Utah Rhetoric Films a Music Video
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Illinois Rhetoric Alums in a Photobooth
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Top Paper in Public Address at NCA
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Enhancing Research in the Humanities and Arts Grant ($30,000)
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First book published!
In 2010, I published Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public…
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Transcendent Persona Research featured in Communication Theory
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On CBS Sunday Morning talking about Amelia Earhart
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-lost-journey-of-amelia-earhart/
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At the Health Communication Conference in China
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Summers in Red Lodge, MT
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Celebrating a great seminar with hats
Following a wonderful seminar on rhetorical history, one of…
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Research grant to fund interviews with sex educators
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The 2007 Wrage-Baskerville Award in Public Address
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RSA in Memphis
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2001 AFA-NIET: Ryan, Robin, and Jake
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