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I’m excited to announce the launch of a new website for the DNA Discussion Project.  The project is the brainchild of my office-mate and colleague, Dr. Anita Foeman.  I’m pleased to have helped her with this website, and look forward to working with her on other aspects of this fascinating project.

Today Thomson ISI ResearchSoft released EndNote X1 for the Mac.  EndNote is a bibliography program that is used by many scholars to format citations, search online databases and manage reference libraries.  The Windows version of EndNote X1 was released in June.
I’ve been using EndNote since the very first version was developed by Richard Niles at [...]

A number of students have been asking me lately to define a set of terms that are used quite often in communication studies. One of my colleagues, Dr. Kanan Sawyer, has asked her students to ask other faculty for these definitions as part of an assignment in her class on communication careers.
I’ve responded by [...]

I recently installed SPSS, what is generally considered the premier statistical program for social scientists, onto a colleague’s Intel-based MacBook Pro. Rather than install SPSS for the Mac, we opted for installing SPSS for Windows (version 15.01) on a Bootcamp partition on the MacBook Pro. One reason for this is because our campus [...]