Google has selected AU adjunct professor Jan Boyles as one of its first ever journalism fellows.
Boyles, a professor in the School of Communication, was one of seven winners chosen from more than 2,300 applicants to receive the fellowship.
"[The applicants] who have been picked for the 10-week program will get the chance to work with organizations focused on exciting projects ranging from those steeped in investigative journalism to those working for press freedom around the world and to those that are helping the industry figure out its future in the digital age," according to Google's blog.
Boyles will be working with D.C.-based, Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, according to Google's blog.
Each recipient will work with a different new organization based out of Berkeley, Calif., Columbia, Mo., Cambridge, Mass., St. Petersburg/Miami, Fla., New York City,. or D.C. for the 10-week period.
Boyles also received the West Virginia University P.I. Reed School of Journalism Golden Quill Teaching Award and the West Virginia University Nicholas Evans Award for Academic Advising in 2009.
She currently teaches COMM-200: Writing for Communication in SOC and is the International Communication Association Junior Chair of Instructional and Developmental Communication, while working to earn her doctorate is in communications.
"A large credit of this honor should be shared with the School of Communications' PhD faculty, who have motivated me to achieve my academic best throughout my tenure at AU," Boyles said in an email.
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