{"id":25179,"date":"2026-10-08T14:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=25179"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:48:23","slug":"esu-students-present-at-statewide-communication-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-students-present-at-statewide-communication-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Students Present at Statewide Communication Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University graduate students Ashlee Acosta and George McFadden presented their research at the 86<sup>th<\/sup> Convention of the\u00a0Pennsylvania Communication Association, held September 18-19 at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.<\/p>\n<p>Acosta received second place in the Graduate Writing Competition for her paper \u201cFragments of Memory: A Rhetorical Analysis of Only Yesterday.\u201d \u201cWhat started as a class project, became an opportunity to share my research with communication scholars and graduate students from across Pennsylvania,\u201d she said. \u201cPresenting at the PCA conference was both exciting and rewarding, and it was especially meaningful to see a project that I had worked so hard on receive this recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McFadden received third place for his paper \u201cContent Creation Project: Senator John Fetterman.\u201d \u201cI was honored to receive third place in the graduate writing competition, and it was especially meaningful to share the experience with my fellow Warriors, Ashlee Acosta and Dr. Cem Zeytinoglu, who chaired the session,\u201d he said. McFadden also presented a poster titled \u201cWhat Does \u2018No Kings\u2019 Mean?\u2019 An Ideological Criticism of a Paired Protest-Sign Artifact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Dr. Cem Zeytinoglu, professor and chair of communication at ESU by calling (570) 422-3911 or email <a href=\"mailto:czeytinoglu@esu.edu\">czeytinoglu@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU graduate students Ashlee Acosta and George McFadden presented their research at the 86<sup>th<\/sup> Convention of the\u00a0Pennsylvania Communication Association, held September 18-19 at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":25182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25183,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25179\/revisions\/25183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}