[1] Her research and teaching focuses on the role of media in the lives of children and their families, and the potential for communication messages to address health risk behaviors.
(1990) from the Annenberg School for Communication, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Muhlenberg College in 1983 with a B.A.
Presented by the Children, Adolescents, and Media Division of the International Communication Association at the Annual Meeting in Fukuoka, Japan.
This award is given to an alumnus/a for distinguished and excellent attainments in a specific field which reflects substantial credit on Muhlenberg College as the recipient’s alma mater.
Awarded for co-authored paper (with Emory Woodard, Jessica Fishman and Ronda Scantlin) entitled: “Systems theory and the evaluation of media policy: Lessons from an assessment of the V-Chip mandate.”[2]