September 21, 2024
It was a privilege and joy to be invited by the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette to share a story about my memories at the UI for the project University of Illinois 150 Years and Beyond.
February 13, 2024
Dr. Elaine Hsieh recently received the Masonic Cross-Departmental Grant. The 2024-2026 project is titled "Reimagining Language Equity: Defining Best Practices in Partnering with Informal Interpreters of Somali Families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit." Dr. Jennifer Needle (PI; Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; Associate Professor, Bioethics) and Dr. Elaine Hsieh (PI; Professor, Communication Studies) will work with community partners to examine naturalistic interpreter-mediated interactions in the neonatal intensive care unit and explore the critical roles and impacts of informal interpreters in healthcare delivery.
Department Executive Officers Program
In Fall 2024, I was chosen to participate in the Department Executive Officers Program of the Big 10 Academic Alliance. This has been an eye-opening learning experiences. There is so much to learn from DEOs from a wide range of diciplines, departments, and instiuttions. The liasons have also been wonderful mentors.
Health Communication, published online
"Elaine Hsieh and Eric M. Kramer draw from their own groundbreaking research [...] to conceptualize the field of health communication writ large through the lens of intercultural encounters. They accomplish this task in a way that both serves as a welcoming introduction to the field for students and emergent scholars and, at the same time, as a nuanced, theoretically rich resource for senior scholars already well familiar with the field, its history, and its core theoretical trajectories.." Jensen & Almuaili
Invited Talk: Nov. 8, 2024
Dr. Elaine Hsieh shared her research experiences and provided advice to faculty members and students who are intterested in langauge-discordant community-based work and interpreter-mediated resaerch. See recorded talk here.
Invited Talk: May 4, 2024
Dr. Hsieh presented her recent work, " Healthcare interpreting as a contextually situated, locally managed communicative activity," as a part of Cross-Cultural Communication and Medical Interpreting Workshop hosted by the Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Center for Bioethics
Dr. Hsieh provided a lecture at the Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds hosted by the Center of Bioethics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. See the recorded letecture.
The Landscape of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing in Reproductive Health Contexts