Spring 2005
Department of Communication
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Health
Communication

The department's nationally ranked Health Communication unit is adding senior faculty and conducting innovative research that is becoming front-page news around the world

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From the top of the heap ...
      ... To the bottom of the pile

New professors adjusting to life in charge

Sarah Bonewits
She no longer has to share an office with three other people. And her students call her "Dr. Bonewits," not Sarah.

But the transition from a graduate student to a professor has actually been low key, said Sarah Bonewits, thanks her time at Purdue.

Bonewits, Devika Chawla, Katerina Tsetsura and Rebecca Meisenbach are just four recent graduates who have gone from studying at Purdue to faculty positions in communication departments across the country.

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Tourist
Traipses

From an award-winning B&B to an up and coming winery, department alumni are using their communication skills to beckon vacationers.

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Talent Scout

As a vice president of talent placement services for one of the nation's leading on-air talent firms, Barbara Frye has a role far different from the cable-dragging one she had out of college.

"I'm a headhunter," she says. "That's my job here."

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