Texas Advertising Faculty Receive Graduate School Awards

Three of our the Texas Advertising faculty have received Graduate School Diversity Mentoring Fellowships for 2010-2011 -- Gerri Henderson, Mike Mackert and Jerome Williams.

The purpose of the Diversity Mentoring Fellowship program is to help faculty members at The University of Texas at Austin bring outstanding new graduate students to campus that add to the diversity to our campus and mentor them. During the academic year 2010-2011, a Diversity Mentoring Fellow will receive a stipend of $16,000, plus an additional amount to help with medical insurance expenses.  During each long semester the Fellow will also receive up to the maximum Tuition Benefit Assistance (currently $3566) toward tuition and required fees. 

Professor Wei-Na Lee received a Faculty Research Award for 2010-2011 for her research proposal entitled, "Patriotic Consumption? Nationalism, Internationalism, Patriotism, and Consumer Ethnocentrism". Professor Lee writes, "Prompted by 9/11 and recent world financial crisis, this research is an attempt to frame the study of consumer behavior in the larger context of world events."

The Faculty Research Award provides semester-length leaves for tenured faculty members. Funds for the Faculty Development Program are appropriated by The University of Texas Board of Regents, and are administered in the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies. Faculty Research Assignments and Summer Research Assignments are awarded through a peer review process