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Sela Sar

Education:

Ph.D., Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, 2006.
M.A., Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, 2002.

Year started at ISU: Fall 2006.

Current Research Interests and Teaching:

Advertising effects and general health advertising messages; Message processing, moods, emotions and memory; Strategic communication in the traditional and the new media environments; Current teaching interest: strategic communication (strategic planning, advertising and mass communication related courses and research methods)

Publications:

Articles have appeared in Advances in Consumer Research, Proceeding of American Academy of Advertising, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and Journal of Advertising.

Major awards:

• SJMC of the University of Minnesota Kriss Funds (2006 and 2005)
• Third Place Student Research Paper, Communication Theory and Methodology Division at the AEJMC (2005);
• University of Minnesota Graduate Research Program Partnership (2004);
• First Place Student Research Paper, Advertising Division at the AEJMC (2003);
• Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award (2003).

Experience:

Worked at Time Warner Cable and other media companies.