This week’s FAC is at Sgt. Preston’s. Cross the bridge and come along this Friday, February 3rd, from 6 pm.

With best wishes,
Roxana

Sgt. Preston’s
6 North 2nd Street
Lafayette

http://www.sgtprestons.org/

This week’s FAC is at Black Sparrow! Please join for some fun! Many thanks to our friend, Linda, who’s been of great help!
See you at Black Sparrow!

Roxana

Black Sparrow
223 Main Street Lafayette

Welcome back again! This Friday it’s time for FAC at Spurlock’s ! (Thanks, Patrick for the suggestion!)
Hopefully many of us will be able to make it. See you at 6 pm on Jan 20th!!

Roxana

721 Main Street, Lafayette

Great news! To provide a bit of additional time to polish up those submission, the deadline for submission to this year’s CGSA conference has been extended to Friday, Jan. 20th!

Keep in mind that only EXTENDED ABSTRACTS are needed to submit!

Welcome back and best wishes for 2012!
This Friday, January 13th, FAC will be held at Hunter’s Pub from 6pm.
We hope to see you there!

Hunter’s Pub
1092 Sagamore Parkway
West Lafayette
(765) 463-7785

3rd Purdue Graduate Student Conference on Communication Research

“Innovation in Communication Research: Looking Back and Thinking Forward”

Friday, March 23, 2012

University Hall 117 & 119, Purdue University

GENERAL CALL

It’s time! The Communication Graduate Student Association (CGSA) from Brian Lamb School of Communication is now accepting submissions from all Purdue University students for our third annual Purdue Graduate Student Conference on Communication Research. The conference will take place Friday, March 23, 2012 in University Hall 115 and 119.

The conference committee is generally interested in papers about communication research but is specifically interested in research related to this year’s theme of Innovation in Communication Research: Looking Back and Thinking Forward. This theme highlights dynamic research that offers glimpses of the future while still demonstrating important connections to the past. We encourage submissions that explore intersections between areas of study, make unique methodological contributions, and offer new conceptualizations of old themes.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 13^th, 2012 at 11:59 pm EST. The PGSCCR is accepting extended abstracts for both paper proposals and panel proposals. Please format your submissions in Microsoft Word and submit them to purdue_cgsa@yahoo.com

Once your submission is received you will receive a note of confirmation. Because this is a blind review process, please ensure that your name and all identifying information only appears on the cover page. Acceptance notices will be sent out in February.

ELIGIBILTY

All graduate students at Purdue University or in absentia are eligible to submit one proposal for a paper of which they are the first author. All graduate students at Purdue University are also eligible to collaborate with other students to submit one panel proposal. (This means that, at most, one student could present a paper of which they are the first author and present their work on a panel.)

Students should submit their work by Friday, January 13^th, 2012 at 11:59 pm EST to purdue_cgsa@yahoo.com. All references to the authors should only appear on the coversheet. Proposals that do not comply with submission guidelines will not be sent out for review.

INDIVIDUAL

Individual submissions should be in extended abstract form. Your extended abstract should summarize the aims, methods, and findings of your paper. From this abstract, the reviewers should be able to follow the main argument of the paper you propose to present at the conference. The extended abstract for a paper submission should not exceed 1,000 words inclusive of references. Please remove the names of all authors from the extended abstract to ensure blind review. Identifying information should only appear on the submission coversheet.

Please submit your extended abstract to purdue_cgsa@yahoo.com.by Friday, January 13^th, 2012 at 11:59 pm EST.

PANEL

Panel submissions should be in extended abstract form. The extended abstract should include the title of the panel and a description of its general theme and aims. It should also include an abstract of each paper on the panel. Panels should include three or four papers. The entire proposal should not exceed 2,000 words inclusive of references. Please remove the names of all authors from the extended abstract to ensure blind review. Identifying information should only appear on the submission coversheet.

Please submit your extended abstract to purdue_cgsa@yahoo.com.by Friday, January 13^th, 2012 at 11:59 pm EST.

If you have further questions, please contact conference coordinator, Kai Kuang at kkuang@purdue.edu.

We look forward to a lively and provocative exchange of ideas this March. Thank you!

Rahul, Debalina, Ziyu, and R.J., please contact Jenn Owlett for procedures to receive your award and again, congratulations!

-Patrick

To order: complete an order form, and drop it off with your payment in the main office. Checks should be made out to “CGSA”. Make sure to secure your payment to the order form (envelopes or staplers work well).

Patty Mason by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 4, 2011.

 Application

Incomplete applications will be automatically disqualified.  A completed application consists of

1. CGSA Travel Grant Application Form – Fall 2011.  One copy.
2. Service Statement (see below for specifications).  One copy. Please paperclip to the application form.

 Applications are due: Friday, November 4, 2011, by 4:00 p.m.  No exceptions.

 Where to turn in completed applications

Applications should be hand-deliver to Patty Mason, Graduate Secretary, BRNG Room 2123.  We require hard copies to be submitted.  Applications may not be submitted by email, fax, or by any other electronic means.  Also, please do not put applications in faculty mailboxes.

Eligibility

Any Purdue graduate student in the Department of Communication who is a member of CGSA and has had a paper or poster or G.I.F.T. accepted or is on a panel at a conference is eligible to apply given the following restrictions:

1. The research for this presentation must have been done while you were a student at Purdue.
2. You must be an active dues paying member of CGSA
3. Your may only submit a grant application if attending an academic conference during the fall of 2011.
4. Your grant application should reflect all papers, posters, panels, and G.I.F.T.S. that have been accepted.   Please list them in the following order: competitively selected paper, poster, panel participation, G.I.F.T.  Be sure to indicate if you are the presenter, co-presenter, co-author, or panel coordinator, chair, respondent or participant.  Be sure to indicate (if known) any top paper awards associated with the presentations/posters of those listed in the application.
5. The applicant is responsible for ensuring that no one else is submitting an application as the “presenter” for the same paper and that applications stating “co-presenter” are reflected on both applications.  Violations will result in all applicants being disqualified.
6. You were not one of the 4 recipients of the CGSA travel grant in Spring 2011 (Spring 2011 recipients are ineligible until Spring 2011).

For more information, see email from Patrick Ollinger