Seventeen scholars won top prizes at the WCA 2015 Biennial Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, including Myung-Seok Park Distinguished Service Award, Pearson and Nelson Competitive (Travel) Scholarship Awards, Family of Myung-Seok Park Financial Awards for Outstanding Scholarship. Following is the list…

We are pleased to announce the 2015 inaugural recipients of the Pearson and Nelson Competitive (Travel) Scholarships. In 2014, the Pearson and Nelson scholarship program was created through the generosity of Professors Judy Pearson and Paul Nelson to assist first-time conference participants…

2015 WCA Conference in Lisbon will start quite soon and if you haven’t packed your luggage yet, you still have some time. These small infographics will help you to define the priority in some tasks in order to apply for…

Today, on Martin Luther King Day, we mark the colossal contribution of one man who continues to galvanize millions with his dream.  When “white people only” signs barred black folks from water fountains, restaurants, and bus seats and when physical violence…

Dr. Young-Ok Lee, Secretary-General, attended UIA (Union of International Associations) Round Table that was held in Seoul for two days from Oct. 22-23. UIA is an international union with more than 100 years of history established to facilitate and…

Dr. Carmencita P. Del Villar was recently awarded the Fulbright Advanced Research Scholarship Dr. Carmencita P. Del Villar was recently awarded the Fulbright Advanced Research Scholarship to the US  for her research proposal about the influence of cultural orientations on…

Associate Professor Eddah M. Mutua-Kombo has been awarded a $10,000 St. Cloud University Provost’s Grant 2014 to internationalize communication. In commenting on the significance of her work, Dr. Mutua-Kombo, who resides in St. Cloud, Minnesota in the United…

Members of the 2015 WCA Conference Committee met recently on the beautiful campus of the University of Lisbon to fine-tune plans for the upcoming conference, which will be held there from July 30 to August 3. The goodwill, warm hospitality,…

Studying the culture that accompanies language Tatchan Kazuo Akasaka “I am Japanese. I have one actual name, but I can be addressed in many ways. If I were to count them there would be five or more. What is…

Dr. Carolyn Calloway-Thomas Will deliver a keynote speech at the 10th biennial convention of the Pacific and Asian Communication Association (PACA) in Bandung, Indonesia , June 24-28. Delivered the keynote speech at the ”Translating Culture, Negotiating Difference: Religion, Law and…