By: Kendall Wheeler
Ann Rodriguez, Texas Tech College of Media and Communication faculty member and Texas Tech AWC student chapter adviser, was recently awarded the President’s Excellence in Teaching award.
Brittany Hoover, higher education reporter for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, received the newspaper’s January 2013 Employee of the Month award. She received this recognition and $100 for her exemplary service and outstanding performance, including expanding higher education coverage to include the region, driving traffic to lubbockonline.com with human interest pieces on the Texas Tech beat and being a leader in social media use.
Danette Baker was selected to serve on the Lubbock Area United Way Board of Directors.
“Digital House Calls: Health Care Professionals, Interest and Motivation for Online Media Interaction,” written by Clay Craig, Brittany Campbell, Dr. Shannon Bichard and Danette Baker, has been accepted for the International Communication Association’s 2013 conference, “Challenging Communication Research.”