Kyle is a PhD student in UB’s Department of Communication, Diversity Fellow and Graduate Ambassador for the College of Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on humor, health communication, and uncertainty management.

Educational Background

• MA, University at Buffalo
• BA, University at Buffalo
  

Courses Taught

• LAI 203: Academic Success Strategies

Current Research

• Feeley, T., Heneveld, K., Gillis, S. Giving Credit Where Credit’s Due: Examining Authorship Credit in Communication Scholarship. 
• Heneveld, K., Lattimer, T., Andreeva, I., Lapan, E., Taggart, M., Washburn, R., Sin, S., & Hahn, L. Exploring how ‘humorous’ extremist memes affect audience attitudes toward outgroups.
• Heneveld, K., Tenzek, K.E. Caregiver Uncertainty on AlzConnected: Online Alzheimer’s Discussion and Information Management.

Academic Achievements

Tenzek, K. E., Lattimer, T. A., Heneveld, K., Lapan, E., Neurohr, M., & Gillis, S. (2023). Mediated depictions of mental health, chronic care and literacy: a narrative analysis of Randall’s mental health journey in the television series, This is Us. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1204973.

Rintamaki, L., Karras, E., Peek, D., Vorphal, M., Dobmeier, C., Gillis, S., Heneveld, K.,  Przysinda, W., & Tingue, E. (2022, November). Deaf Information Avoidance: An examination of health information avoidance by Deaf people. Presented at the National Communication Association’s annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Heneveld, K. (2024). A Patient Perspective of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis    (Wegener’s). Presented at the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication’s bi-annual meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. 

Sarah, H., Sara, K., Heneveld, K. (2024) What factors predict college student   attendance rates among high school students?. Presented at the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education’s Research Symposium in Buffalo, NY.