{"id":2926,"date":"2019-06-28T11:35:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2021-10-08T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T16:27:46","slug":"dr-melvin-defleur-awarded-aejmcs-distinguished-service-to-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2019\/06\/28\/dr-melvin-defleur-awarded-aejmcs-distinguished-service-to-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Melvin DeFleur honored with AEJMC&#8217;s Distinguished Service to Research Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crc\/files\/2019\/06\/sized_Melvin-DeFleur.94-1846-010_bw-550x557-e1561735987120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2923 size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Melvin DeFleur, a former professor of communication at Boston University and renowned communications scholar, was posthumously awarded the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aejmc.org\/events\/toronto19\/award-winners\/\">Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)&#8217;s Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. DeFleur conducted pioneering academic research in the communications field, authoring over a dozen books\u2014including the widely-cited textbook \u201cTheories of Mass Communication,&#8221; which has been translated in 10 languages. At Boston University, he served as both a faculty member and chair of COM&#8217;s\u00a0<span>Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations department.\u00a0<\/span><span>In 2011, the Communication Research Center created the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/crc-lecture-series\/?_ga=2.111687748.159654532.1561734409-156051803.1544203983\">Dr. Melvin DeFleur Distinguished Lecture Series<\/a>, a tribute to his groundbreaking contributions to mass communication research and his valued membership at the CRC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The award will be presented during the <a href=\"http:\/\/aejmc.org\/events\/toronto19\/\">AEJMC&#8217;s August 2019 Conference<\/a> in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Melvin DeFleur, a former professor of communication at Boston University and renowned communications scholar, was posthumously awarded the\u00a0Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)&#8217;s Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award.\u00a0 Dr. DeFleur conducted pioneering academic research in the communications field, authoring over a dozen books\u2014including the widely-cited textbook \u201cTheories of Mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15706,"featured_media":2923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}