Author: Rahul

New Publication: “Graduate students’ resilience and resistance: Exploring adaptive-transformative possibilities in higher education”

This paper probably takes the prize for “Longest time between study design and publication” – a whopping THIRTEEN years! 😁 Nevertheless, the issues we investigated still remain crucial, despite a “minor” event like a global pandemic happening in the meantime, and perhaps a key reason I’m excited to see it in print is because it’s finally out there! That, and the amazing collaboration with Wayne State Department of Communication alum Kelsey Mesmer (Asst. Professor at St. Louis University) and Patrice M. Buzzanell. 🩷

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A Fun and Productive NCA 2024

Attending the annual conference of the National Communication Association is generally exciting because of the opportunity to present new research, (re)connect with colleagues from across the discipline and buddies from grad school, and of course explore a new city. New Orleans isn’t exactly “new” to me, seeing that this was my third trip there, but it’s always an exhilarating place to visit, so I’m not complaining. 😁

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New Publication: “Institutional (ante)narratives of anticipatory entrepreneurial resilience: COVID-19 and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor”

A new publication is always thrilling, and even more so when it’s with a wonderful student turned collaborator! The journey this paper traversed, from class paper to conference talk to adding new theoretical lens to finally publication in the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, has been incredible and I’m glad to have worked with Allison Lucas on it! 😊 Read the article here.

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Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Tour of CLEAR lab spaces at the C.S. Mott Center

Earlier today, the Research Translation team that I lead at CLEAR partnered with the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development (led by CLEAR’s Project 4 PI Dr. Gil Mor), to host around 35 high school students and community members as part of the 19th annual Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit conference.

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Congratulations, Dr. Allison Lucas, on defending your Dissertation!

I’m so pleased that after four incredible years, Allison Lucas defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Organizational Communication and Urban Sustainability, on July 15. While I was thrilled to chair her Dissertation Committee, the other members were Dr. Stephanie Tong, Dr. Donyale Padgett, and Dr. Andrea Tangari.

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New Animation Videos for CLEAR on Communicating VOC Health Risks

Last semester, two student teams in my Communication Studies capstone class developed a series of short animation videos highlighting the engineering and biomedical research at the NIH-funded Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Research (CLEAR) Superfund Research Program to monitor, assess and remediate the health impacts of volatile organic chemicals (VOCs).

This is the first of those videos, describing Project 1, led by Dr. Glen Hood (Dept. of Biological Sciences).

You can watch the entire series at https://lnkd.in/ed4b5Szd