USD Department of Communication Studies

11/17/2021

07/16/2021

Get ready, the semester is starting soon!! 🙌

05/05/2021

Congratulations to Paige Northagen who successfully defended her thesis yesterday!! We're so proud to have you in our department!!🙌😁🤩🥳

05/05/2021

Congratulations to Andrea Fencl who successfully defended her thesis earlier this morning!! We're so pround of you!!! 🙌🤩🥳😁

05/03/2021

Congratulations to Chesney Garnos on her successful defense! We’re so proud of you!! 🤩🥳🙌

04/29/2021

Congratulations to Shanice Hall on her successful defense! We’re so proud of you!! 😁🥳

04/29/2021

Defense season is in full swing! Congratulations to Brookney Jean Delgado on her successful defense on Monday! We’re so proud of you!!!

04/26/2021

Finish strong!! You can do it!! GO YOTES!

04/15/2021

Come practice speeches and presentations at the USD Presentation Center in ID Weeks Library Room 134A!! GO YOTES!

04/14/2021

Congratulations to Dr. Kelly McKay-Semmler for winning the 2021 Cultler Award!! We are so proud to have you in our deparment!! GO YOTES 😁

08/08/2020

Today, August 8, is the "birthday of physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota (1901).
Lawrence attended USD, working his way through college, and going on for graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota and Yale. He accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley . . . where he invented a machine that he called a "proton merry-go-round," better known as the cyclotron . . . a machine that could accelerate particles and then hurl them at atoms to smash the atoms open. This allowed scientists to discover radioactive isotopes of elements (as well as) new elements. Lawrence was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1940." (taken from Writer's Almanac, 8/8/2020, (C) Prairie Home Productions)
In 2019, the Department of Communication Studies began a program in Science Communication, recognizing that the work of scientists must be translated to educate, empower, and enrich the communities and societies in which we all live.