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For Immediate Release:	August 17, 1998
Contact: Majid Tehranian, 956-3353

UH professor wins international award   Majid Tehranian, a communications professor at the University of Hawai'i, was honored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication during its annual conference held August 6 in Baltimore, Md. Tehranian received the Distinguished Service Award of the International Communication Division of AEJMC, given each year to a leading scholar who has provided intellectual leadership and major contributions to the study of international communication. The AEJMC, with an international membership of more than 3,300, is the oldest and largest association of journalism and mass communication educators and administrators at the college level. Tehranian's chief areas of teaching and research include political economy of communication, peace, and development; intercultural and international communication; and telecommunication policy and planning. He also specializes in Middle Eastern and Asia-Pacific affairs. He has served at both the national and international levels, as director of social planning at the Plan Organization of Iran, director of Iran Communication and Development Institute in Tehran, program specialist at UNESCO in Paris, trustee of the International Institute of Communications in London, and council member of the Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association. He also has served as faculty or visiting scholar at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, and Tehran University. Tehranian has taught at UH since 1981, and is the former chair of the Department of Communication and the Spark Matsunaga Institute for Peace. He has initiated and directed such programs as the Pacific Peace Seminar, and "Dialog on Peace" television program. He has received the UH/EWC Collaborative Research Grant, the Hawaii Interactive Television System's Curriculum Development Grant, the US Institute of Peace grant, a Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching, and the Fujio Matsuda Scholar Grant, Soka University's Award of Highest Honor. The author of numerous books and scholarly articles, Tehranian has served on the editorial boards of several publications and currently edits the Communication, Peace, and Development series of books published by Hampton Press.

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