Faculty

Nobleza Asuncion-Lande Mary Banwart Nancy Baym Tom D. Beisecker Kristine Bruss Diana B. Carlin Jay Childers Michael Dennis

Paul G. Friedman Jeffrey Hall Scott Harris Mary Lee Hummert Adrianne Kunkel Beth Manolescu Donn Parson

Dorthy Pennington Robert C. Rowland Tracy Russo Amy Schmisseur Dave Tell Yan Bing Zhang Emeritus Faculty

Michael Dennis Email: mrdennis@ku.edu Voice: 785-864-9865 Office: 4C Bailey Hall

Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University
Dr. Dennis received a B.A. in Computer Science and Communication at La Salle University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Communication at Purdue University (2001), where he also won the Bruce Kendall Award for Teaching Excellence. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in health communication, new technology, and social science research methods, as well as the public speaking course for the Freshmen Summer Institute. His research has investigated persuasive evidence types in health-related decision making, health-related compliance seeking by intimate partners, health seekers’ usage of medical websites, the grief recovery rhetoric of eulogies, and the social consequences of technology adoption in health and human services offices. He was recently awarded two grants by the KU Center for Research: one to study the social support provided to breast cancer survivors and another to create a model of Internet-aided evaluation/probability resolution by patients diagnosed with unfamiliar diseases.

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