September 18, 2001

WKU Professor Honored By State Communication Group

Bowling Green, Ky. - Dr. Carl Kell, a communication professor at Western Kentucky University, has been honored by the Kentucky Communication Association.

Dr. Kell and Dr. Ray Camp, professor emeritus at North Carolina State University's Department of Communication, received the 2001 Applegate Research Award for "In the Name of the Father - The Rhetoric of the New Southern Baptist Convention."

The award is given to the top research publication in communication in Kentucky for the current academic year.

Begun in 1999, the Applegate award is named for Dr. Jim Applegate, vice president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. Dr. Applegate is a communication professor at the University of Kentucky and is president of the National Communication Association.

The book by Dr. Kell and Dr. Camp received the 2000 book of year award from the Religious Communication Association.

For more information, contact Dr. Carl Kell at (270) 745-3296. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.