College of Communication College of Communication UT Austin College of Communication Communication Studies Department

Andrew Ishak
Andrew Ishak

Seeking Ph.D., Organizational Communication
Projected graduation date:
Spring 2011
Advisor:
Dr. Larry Browning
Dissertation topic:
Competing goals in organizations and groups
Hometown:
Cupertino, CA
BA Degree:
Managerial Economics, UC Davis '04
MA Degree:
Advertising, UT Austin '05
Current research interests:
organizational and group communication, decision making and goal setting processes, sport groups and teams, organizational culture
Outside hobbies & interests:
playing any sport, filmmaking (http://outofegyptmovie.com), free food, scanning PDFs
What you think makes UT or Austin unique, cool, or "weird":
Cool: there is ALWAYS something fun to do around campus and downtown.  Weird: More than 600,000 people live here but it still feels like a college town sometimes. Unique: they hired Satan as the road planner