1998 Fellowship, Direct Marketing Institute for Professors, awarded by the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing Educational Foundation and the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation. The Institute was held in Chicago May 27 through 29, 1998. I was one of 20 selected nationwide.

1997 Pathfinder Award for research from the Institute for Public Relations Research and Education. This is regarded as the premier award nationally for public relations research.

1997 State of Iowa Regents Faculty Excellence Award-winner.

1995 "Outstanding Educator" Award, Public Relations Society of America presented at the national conference in Seattle Oct. 30, 1995.

Honored at the 30th Anniversary Luncheon of the Public Relations Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Aug. 9, 1995, in Washington, D.C., for being Division head in 1992-93.

Awarded 1994 and 1990 "President's Citation" at the national conventions of the Public Relations Society of America for leadership contributions to PRSA during those years.

Selected by Herbert Quandt Stiftung Foundation of BMW AG, West Germany, to attend program on European-U.S. Relations March 1994 in Washington, D.C. Cited and presented with a certificate of appreciation for "Outstanding Division Leadership" in August 1993 for my work 1991-93 as Vice-Head and as Head of the Public Relations Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Presented with the Jon Riffle/PRSSA Championship Award at the 1992 national convention of the Public Relations Student Society of America Oct. 27, 1992, because of my past service as national faculty advisor.

One of 36 outstanding alumni featured as "Proof of the Pudding" in Harold P. Kurtz' book, Fly the Banner High: The Story of Journalism at Wartburg College (Westminster, Colo.: The Publishing House, 1992).

Awarded the 1991 Wartburg College Society of Collegiate Journalists' "Medal of Merit" for alumni who have had exceptionally distinguished professional careers in journalism. Award was presented during spring SCJ banquet March 27, 1991.

PRSA Fellow (was inducted in 1990 in the first selected class of 59 people nationwide in this 16,000-member organization.

Selected as one of about a half dozen experts who were to be featured in a videotape about international public relations which was viewed in a plenary session of the 1990 national convention of the Public Relations Society of America. Because of technical difficulties in its production, my portion of the tape had to be eliminated.

Won Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award at the Midwest District Conference of the Public Relations Student Society of America Feb. 24, 1990, in Carbondale, Ill., for my work as faculty advisor of the UNI Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America.

Won the first annual PRIDE Award in the book category for Public Relations and Community: A Reconstructed Theory (New York: Praeger, Inc., 1988). The award was for outstanding innovative, developmental and educational research in public relations. It was presented by the Commission on Public Relations of the Speech Communication Association. The book was entered into the competition by the publisher, and each author and the publisher was given a plaque at the Speech Communication Association national convention Nov. 18, 1989, in San Francisco, California.

Invited by Wartburg College to attend a journalists' luncheon and roundtable with Xiaopo Huang, journalist and former deputy director of the National Press Club of the People's Republic of China, Sept. 14, 1989.

Selected by Herbert Quandt Stiftung Foundation of BMW AG, West Germany, as one of about 50 American scholars to attend, "Transatlantic Forum '88: Perspectives on International Communications," in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 15 through 17, 1988.

Selected to be conference participant, Christian Science Monitor, "Third World Symposium," March 27 through 29, 1987, in Boston, Massachusetts. All expenses associated with attendance at the event as well as for two UNI students of my choosing were fully paid by that newspaper.