Four NDSU communication faculty and three doctoral students recently published articles or are about to be published.

Zoltan Majdik, assistant professor of communication, and co-authors John M. Kephart III, California State University – Northridge, and G. Thomas Goodnight, University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication, published “The Presidential Debates of 2004: Contested Moments in the Democratic Experiment” in Controversia.

Robert Littlefield, professor of communication; and doctoral students Jen Reierson, Kim Cowden and Shelly Stowman; and Cheryl Long Feather of United Tribes Technical College have a journal article, “A Case Study of the Red Lake, Minnesota, School Shooting: Intercultural Learning in the Renewal Process,” to be published in 2009 in Communication, Culture and Critique, an ISI journal sponsored by the International Communication Association.

Paul Nelson and Judy Pearson, professors of communication, co-wrote with Anastacia Kurylo of Marymount Manhattan College, a book chapter titled “Developing an Intellectual Community” in Morreale and Arneson’s new “A Student’s Handbook” designed to help graduate students get the most from their graduate education. The publication has 15 chapters on everything from job hunting to grant writing.