By Whitney Clark
It’s graduation day. You hold your diploma, take your photo and shake a hand or two. You’ve waited your whole life for this moment, but now what?
Many students decide to work for a time and then attend graduate school. For many, this break may be a just few years long. But [...]

Many people find their chosen profession gratifying, exasperating, enjoyable and frustrating. Because there are so many emotions involved with a career, some may find it difficult to relate directly to their spouse when it comes to his or her job. On the other hand, some couples have an uncommon opportunity to work together.
Andrew Tyler, a [...]

The interview with Chris Thomas, the man who handled the public relations for the Elizabeth Smart family during her disappearance, was supposed to take one hour. It lasted three.
Graduate student Lilya Velbovets and Professor Kenneth Plowman interviewed Thomas while researching for their paper entitled, “Public Relations in High Profile Family Crisis Situations.”
The paper was selected [...]

As the director of marketing communications at BYU’s Museum of Art, Christopher Wilson spends his days basking in the serene beauty of a world-class art collection.
Chris, however, is far from the typical-or perhaps we should say stereotypical- “stuffy museum administrator.” It takes only a few moments in his presence or a few steps into his [...]

Sweaty palms, pounding heart and dry throat are some symptoms one might expect to experience when presenting at a conference, but for one Brigham Young University student, it is just another day on the job.
Megan Stoker, a BYU graduate student emphasizing international communications and ethics, presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass [...]

With the mid-winter conference for the Association of Educators for Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) under her belt, Brigham Young University graduate student Bonnie Boyd-Huling is excited about a new date: June 8, the due date of her first child.
“I was definitely an anomaly there at that conference in Oklahoma,” said Huling. “I stand [...]

Many people find their chosen profession gratifying, exasperating, enjoyable and frustrating. Because there are so many emotions involved with a career, some may find it difficult to relate directly to their spouse when it comes to his or her job. On the other hand, some couples have an uncommon opportunity to work together.
Andrew Tyler, a [...]

“I was definitely an anomaly there at that conference in Oklahoma,” said Huling. “I stand out as it is being a married female graduate student, but being pregnant while presenting my paper just added to it.”

Huling and her husband Galen met the summer of 2007, just after she finished her undergraduate degree in journalism and [...]

James Phillips, a current graduate student in communications at BYU, recently discovered that in three of four types of contests during the 2008 presidential primary elections, voters preferred candidates who spoke about negative events or used negative emotion words–a behavior called rumination–but Republicans preferred optimists and Democrats preferred pessimists.
Phillips presented his findings in January 2009 [...]

From Hungary to Denmark, to New York City and Washington D.C., traveling was never an issue for Rita Somfai as long as her educational goals were met and the quest for excellence achieved.
Now, Somfai’s educational goals are on the brink of being met and her quest for excellence is well on its way to being [...]