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Featured Intern

Chelsea Hann is a senior Communication Studies major, with a concentration in Interpersonal Communication. During summer 2012, she had a marketing internship with Viamedia, which is a cable advertising company in Bethlehem, PA. During her internship, she made a media analysis for one of Viamedia's many clients. She analyzed all of the client’s advertising mediums over a 26 week period to show which method drove the client’s online sales the most. She presented this media analysis to the President of Viamedia, the sales staff of Viamedia, and the client. She then made her PowerPoint into a generic form that will help Viamedia to advertise for themselves throughout the country.

Department Faculty

Mary E. Nagy, Ph.D.

Dr. Mary E. Nagy joined the faculty in 2012. Dr. Nagy earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University with a focus on Interpersonal Communication and Health Communication. Her dissertation titled The Communicative and Physiological Manifestations of Relational Turbulence during the Empty-Nest Phase of Marital Relationships (2010) was awarded the Top Dissertation Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the International Communication Association. Dr. Nagy’s primary research interests include examining close, personal relationships and how communication develops during times of transition in those relationships. Dr. Nagy is the recipient of two co-authored Top Paper Awards and continues to actively present research at regional, national, and international conferences. Her research has been published in the Western Journal of Communication, the Journal of Family Communication, and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Prior to coming to Bloomsburg University, Dr. Nagy taught for five years at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and two years at Frostburg State University in Maryland. Dr. Nagy teaches primarily in the Interpersonal Communication Track. Her teaching interests are Introduction to Communication Studies, Interpersonal Communication, Relational Communication, Communication Theory, Communication Research Methods, Conflict Communication, and Family Communication.

Dr. Nagy also actively contributes service to the discipline, the university, and the Department of Communication Studies. She serves as a reviewer for journals and conferences in the discipline and is on the Executive Board of the New York State Communication Association. Dr. Nagy is the faculty advisor to the National Communication Association Student Club at Bloomsburg University and the faculty advisor for Theta Tau Omega sorority. Dr. Nagy also serves on a variety of committees within the Department of Communication Studies.