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Hi ARSTMers! With NCA less than two months away, the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine is excited to provide some updates about membership and elections. Leadership Elections It’s time to elect new leadership! As a small organization, ARSTM relies on an active, enthusiastic, and collegial officer… Read More »Announcing ARSTM elections: send in nominations and renew your membership soon!

ARSTM member Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar was selected for the Robert Wood Johnson’s Health Policy Research Scholars program fellowship after a competitive application and interview process. The program provides training for doctoral students who want to apply their research to advance health and equity. It brings together scholars from disciplines as… Read More »Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar selected for RWJ Health Policy Research Scholars Program

A version of ARSTM members Scott Graham and Hannah Hopkins’ 2020 ARSTM@NCA precon presentation “AI for Social Justice: Methodological Horizons in Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Medicine” has recently been published in Technical Communication Quarterly.  In the article, Graham and Hopkins argue that artificially intelligent machine learning systems can be used… Read More »Graham and Hopkins’ 2020 ARSTM@NCA precon presentation became an article!

Dr. Aimee Roundtree (Associate Dean for Research and Promotion at Texas State) has been awarded the Mariel M. Muir Excellence in Mentoring Award for 2021! The award honors exceptional dedication to mentoring students, faculty, and staff. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Roundtree!

Dr. Kessler’s article The Ostomy Multiple: Toward a Theory of Rhetorical Enactments has been selected for the Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2021, which will be published  by Parlor Press in print and digital formats. The article, which was selected from dozens of nominations from journal editors… Read More »Past ARSTM officer Molly Kessler’s article selected for inclusion in the Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2021!

Last year, the ARSTM leadership made a statement condemning anti-Black racism and the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, David McAtee and other victims of police and vigilante violence. In it, we wrote, “We recognize that white supremacist violence, and more specifically anti-Black violence, is historically intertwined… Read More »ARSTM’s commitment to supporting AAPI people and causes, and denouncing white supremacy and anti-Asian hate

ARSTM members Lynda Olman and Dani DeVasto’s 2020 ARSTM@NCA preconference presentation “Hybrid Collectivity: Hacking Environmental Risk Visualization for the Anthropocene” was recently published open-access in Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) under the same name. Congratulations to Lynda and Dani! Read the abstract: In this essay, we propose a hack of existing models of… Read More »Olman and DeVasto’s ARSTM@NCA 2020 precon presentation published in CDQ

ARSTM members Shannon Butts and Madison Jones’ 2020 ARSTM@NCA preconference presentation “Deep Mapping for Environmental Communication Design” was recently published open-access in Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) under the same name. Congratulations to Shannon and Madison! Announcing the publication, CDQ communications manager Luke Thominet wrote: This article shares lessons from designing EcoTour (ecotourapp.com), a multimedia… Read More »Butts and Jones’ ARSTM@NCA 2020 precon presentation published in CDQ