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Linda Lederman is Principal Investigator on a $450,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Safe and Drug Free Schools Program, her third major grant from the Department since 1998.

Paul Mongeau is the current editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Kory Floyd is current editor of the Journal of Family Communication and an associate editor for JSPR

Dan Canary was Editor of the Western Journal of Communication for three years, 2002-2005

Laura Guerrero and Kory Floyd recently published a book, Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships, in the Lawrence Erlbaum Associates’ Series on Personal Relationships.

Daniel Canary also published an edited book, Maintaining Relationships through Communication (co-edited with Marianne Dainton) in 2003 as part of the same LEA Series.

Kory Floyd’s book on affection exchange will be published soon by Cambridge University Press.

Linda Lederman’s book, Changing the Culture of College Drinking (with Lea Stewart), is the first scholarly text addressing the role of communication and experiential learning in alcohol use and abuse on the college campus.

Jess Alberts’ paper with Professor Sarah Tracy and former doctoral student Pam Lutgen-Sandvik, Burned by bullying in the American workplace: A first time study of U. S. prevalence and delineation of bullying “degree,” received the Top Paper Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the Western Communication Association in 2005.

Kory Floyd received the Top Paper Award at the November 2005 annual conference of the National Communication Association in Boston, Mass. The paper was title, "Human affection exchange: XIII. Affectionate communication accelerates neuroendocrine stress recovery. Dr. Floyd was assisted by graduate students, Alan Mikkelson, Melissa Tafoya, Lisa Farinelli, Angela LaValley, Jeff Judd, Mark Haynes, Kristen Davis, and J. Wilson.

Daniel Canary and Jess Alberts were finalists for the 2004-2005 University Teaching Award

Kory Floyd's paper with graduate student Alan Mikkelson, "Differential benefits and risks of nonverbal affection behavior for women and men" , April 2006, received the Top Paper Award in Interpersonal Communication at the Southern States Communication Association meeting in Dallas, Texas.

Laura Guerrero received the Top Paper Award in the Family Communication Division at the November 2006 annual conference of the National Communication Association in San Antonio, Texas. The paper was titled, "The experience and expression of anger, guilt, and sadness in marriage: An equity theory explanation". Dr. Guerrero was assisted by graduate students Angela LaValley and Lisa Farinelli.

Kory Floyd's paper with graduate students Colin Hesse and Mark Haynes, "Human Affection exchange: XV. Metabolic and cardiovascular correlates of trait expressed affection, received the Top Paper Award in the Interpersonal Communication Division at the annual conference of the National Communication Association in San Antonio, Texas in November 2006.