Study: How Black Communities Effectively Used Humor to Communicate and Critique Health Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Wednesday January 31, 2024

A new study has found that Black communities were able to effectively communicate about the COVID-19 pandemic through humor, while thoughtfully critiquing the very systems they’ve been disenfranchised by. The findings by Rachel Grant, University of Florida …

Yewande O. Addie Inducted Into Prestigious UF Graduate Honor Society

Tuesday February 15, 2022

Yewande O. Addie, a University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications doctoral student, is one of four doctoral students inducted into the 2022 class of the UF Graduate School Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. The Bouchet Society, …

CJC Doctoral Student Explores Black Faculty, Staff and Student Experiences at UF

Monday April 26, 2021

Exposed to various cultures at a small, diverse performing arts high school in Atlanta, Yewande O. Addie decided to continue on a path of multiculturalism to learn more about herself -- and use storytelling and research to affect changes in society.

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CJC Faculty, Staff and Student Receive UF Research Team Awards for 2020 Racial Justice Research Fund Grant

Monday December 21, 2020

Bernell Tripp, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism associate professor, and doctoral student Yewande O. Addie are part of a team that has received a UF Research 2020: Advancing Racial Justice Through Inclusion, Diversity, …

Yewande Addie and Yulia Strekalova Co-Author Article on Using Edutainment to Evaluate Wellness in Black Communities

Monday August 24, 2020

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications doctoral student Yewande O. Addie and Yulia Strekalova, CJC research assistant professor and director of Grants Development, are the co-authors of “The Art and Science of Systemic Wellness in …

CJC Doctoral Student Receives Fulbright Foreign Scholarship

Tuesday April 2, 2019

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications doctoral student Yewande O. Addie is the recipient of a grant from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for research in Nigeria. Addie’s research specializes in West African public …