Professor Pat Stout Selected as Chancellor's Health Fellow

Pat Stout has been named as the Chancellor's Health Fellow in Health Care Ethics and Communications for one year beginning August 1, 2007. The purpose of this fellowship is to work with a consortium of ethicists assembled from across the UT System and the state to enhance the educational, research and patient care programs of the University of Texas System with initiatives directed toward the role and efficacy of ethical considerations in healthcare with an emphasis upon communication strategies. The fellowship includes an award of a $25,000 academic enhancement fund to be used for research and educational purposes.

Professor Stout and Galit Marmor-Lavie, UT Advertising Ph.D. student have received an award for Best Paper from the National Communication Association. The paper, "Understanding Spiritual Need and the Spiritually-Inclined Consumer: Advertising in the New Age", will be presented at the NCA conference in Chicago in November. Ms. Marmor-Lavie noted, "Considering the fact that this is a relatively new topic within the scope of advertising research, I am very excited and grateful that our paper got accepted. We have been working on this topic for quite a while now and it is nice to see the results."

10/1/2007