After obtaining a minor in speech communication at Louisiana State University in 1977, Richard Bello decided to make the study of human communication his life’s work. In 1979, he earned a master’s degree with a concentration in communication theory
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After obtaining a minor in speech communication at Louisiana State University in 1977, Richard Bello decided to make the study of human communication his life’s work. In 1979, he earned a master’s degree with a concentration in communication theory and research from LSU. Rick spent most of the last thirty years as an assistant professor of speech communication at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. While there, he earned a Ph.D. in LSU’s Department of Communication Studies in 1999 before moving to Sam Houston State University in 2003. Rick enjoys both teaching and research, with over thirty-five research presentations at professional conferences and twenty articles in scholarly journals to his credit. His research interests focus on language in interpersonal communication and visual communication. Rick has been married for 30 years and has a teenage daughter. Outside of work and family interests, he especially enjoys the study of birds and other outdoor activities. He has birded, camped, and photographed the natural world in places as far flung as Alaska and Belize, in addition to many places in between and in Europe.
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