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Metamorphosis members use communications research to promote civic engagement in Alhambra, CA
November 20, 2008

Members of the Metamorphosis Project have been working on “The Alhambra Project” with the goal of reaching out to Alhambra’s diverse communities through exploring “new media and traditional communication channels” to promote civic engagement “in an innovative way”. 

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Christopher Chavez to present at the NCA Conference in San Diego, CA
October 27, 2008

Christopher Chavez will present two papers at the upcoming National Communications Association Conference in San Diego, CA.

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Metamorphosis Members to Present at APHA Conference in San Diego
October 1, 2008

Metamorphosis members to present at APHA Conference in San Diego, CA

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Dr. Ball-Rokeach will be presenting to The Knight Commission at Google Headquarters on Sept. 9
September 6, 2008

Dr. Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach will be giving a presentation titled Recreating civil society in a global era: Back to basics to The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. This is a project of the Aspen Institute and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The presentation will be on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. 

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Research on online intervention for civic engagement in ethnically diverse neighborhoods
September 5, 2008

Metamorphosis team members are currently conducting research in the Alhambra area to assess the potential of a news website in fostering community integration and civic engagement in the ethically diverse suburb…

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Dr. Sandra Ball-Rokeach is named ICA Fellow
June 12, 2008

The principal investigator of the Metamorphosis Project, Dr. Sandra Ball-Rokeach, was recently named as a new ICA Fellow by the International Communication Association.

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Carmen Gonzalez is awarded three-year Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship
April 17, 2008

Metamorphosis team member, Carmen Gonzalez, was awarded a three-year Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship in April 2008.

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Members of Metamorphosis to Present at ICA Conference in Montreal
February 27, 2008

Vikki Katz, Charlotte Lapsansky and Chris Chavez, Carmen Gonzalez, Evelyn Moreno & Sandra Ball-Rokeach will present at a panel at the International Communications Association conference in Montreal.  The panel discussion, titled ‘Bridging Divides to Develop Community: Investigating Intergroup Relations among Urban Residents’ will be presented on Saturday, March 24, 2008

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Metamorphosis team submits grant to N.I.H.
February 15, 2008

Dr. Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Dr. Yong-Chan Kim (University of Iowa) and
Dr. Holley Wilkin (Georgia State University) have submitted a grant
titled “Diabetes Literacy as a Function of Where African Americans
Live and How They Communicate” to the N.I.H. 

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Intent to apply for NIH Grant
January 31, 2008

Metamorphosis will submit a grant proposal to NIH this week to help fund new research. 

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Undergraduate research inspired by the Metamorphosis Project
January 19, 2008

Evelyn Moreno who will be graduating this Spring with a major in Urban Applied Anthropology, was recently granted permission to conduct field research at a high school in Montebello, CA. 

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Recently Published
January 10, 2008

Recently published in Information Technology and People by Metamorphosis team members is “Ethnicity, place, and communication technology; effects of ethnicity on multi-dimensional internet connectedness”.

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Sandra Ball-Rokeach is quoted in Sacramento Bee news article
December 19, 2007

Sandra Ball-Rokeach was interviewed by Jocelyn Wiener of the Sacramento Bee about how residents of south Sacramento want a logo to help define their community. The article was published in the September 29, 2007 Saturday edition of the Sacbee and is titled “South Sacramento: Shaping identity”. You can read the artile on the web at http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/405322.html

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Carmen Gonzalez is presented with an award at the NCA Conference in Chicago, Illinois
November 25, 2007

Carmen Gonzalez has received an award for top student paper at NCA in Chicago, Illinois for her paper titled The Sleeping Giant Awakens:
Latino Political Mobilization via Communication Networks.

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Metamorhposis team members prepare grant for submission to the National Institute of Health
October 26, 2007

Meghan Moran, Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Matthew Matsaganis, along with past members Yong-Chan Kim and Holley Wilkin, are preparing a grant for submission to the National Institute of Health…

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