Excellence. She specializes in crisis, emergency, and risk communication science. Dr. Fraustino’s work has been recognized with top research paper awards at national/international conferences yearly from 2013-present. Additionally, she was named a national 2017-2018 AEJMC Emerging Scholar, earned the 2018 Doug Newsom Award for Research in Global Ethics and Diversity from the AEJMC PR Division, was the 2017 Reed College of Media Faculty Research Award recipient, was a 2016 national Frank Public Interest Communications Research Prize award winner, received a 2015 Most Promising Professor Award from the AEJMC Mass Communication and Society Division, and was selected as a 2014-2015 START Terrorism Research Award Fellow. She