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Advertising Alumna Wins Top Award at Cannes Lions

It was 2012 Ultra weekend in Miami. Throngs of EDM lovers donning glitter tube tops and face paint crowded Museum park, including UM SoC alumnus and senior at the time Erin Evon. That year Evon was competing in NSAC — a national advertising competition — and when the adviser of the team, Meryl Blau, called her for some last-minute help, Evon, rainbow outfit and all, deserted the music festival and rushed to her team’s aid.  Evon graduated from the SoC’s creative advertising program in 2012, and this year, she won seven [...]

2019-12-17T19:21:55-05:00August 30, 2018|Advertising|
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Parkland Students Discuss March For Our Lives with UM Students

Four former students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School talked with School of Communication students about their activism and its challenges. A day after another mass shooting in their home state, students from Parkland, Florida, visited the University of Miami to talk with their peers about the challenges of mounting a national campaign against gun violence and keeping people focused on the need to drive change.  When the horrors of Sunday’s latest shooting at a dining and entertainment complex along the St. Johns River in Jacksonville surfaced, in which two [...]

August 28, 2018|Public Relations|
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The SoC Welcomes its New Class of Graduate Students

By: Karina Valdes On Aug. 16, the University of Miami School of Communication welcomed its new class of graduate students. Graduate orientation for the fall 2018 semester introduced students to the school, faculty, and staff, as well as provided them with a wealth of information to make the transition to graduate school as smooth as possible. “It is exciting to see these new graduate students start their programs in the school. They are going to enjoy their stay at UM,” said Cong Li, associate dean for graduate studies. This semester [...]

2020-04-23T15:18:31-04:00August 16, 2018|School of Communication|
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The World Cup – Graphically Displayed

A School of Communication associate professor played an important hand—an artistic one!—in World Cup action, coordinating a team of designers to graphically tell the story of the world’s biggest fútbol tournament. Over the past month, millions of fans around the world have followed the bouncing ball trajectory of their national teams. In tiny towns such as Chitré in Panama and Selfoss in Iceland—two countries that reached the competition for the first time—aficionados and aødáendurs have gasped and groaned as their teams stumbled on the Russian soccer turf. UM Associate Professor Alberto Cairo, who [...]

July 16, 2018|Interactive Media, Journalism|
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UM Alumna Receives 2018 Florida Bar Judge of the Year Award

By: Karina Valdes Palm Beach Circuit Judge Cymonie Rowe, B.S.C. ’94, was recognized with the “2018 Florida Bar Judge of the Year” award at the 2018 Florida Bar Annual Convention. The award was presented on June 14 during the Florida Bar Judicial Luncheon by Michael Higer, Florida Bar president. The convention was held June 13-15 in Orlando, FL and is an annual event hosted by the Florida Bar for Bar members and their families. Rowe graduated from the University in Miami in 1994 with a B.S.C., double majoring in broadcast [...]

2020-04-23T15:17:57-04:00July 12, 2018|Broadcast Journalism|
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21st Annual Canes Film Showcase Premieres Student Films in LA

By: Karina Valdes A night of glitz and glamour in Hollywood highlighted a two-day adventure on the west coast for 12 University of Miami School of Communication students studying motion pictures. On May 24, the School of Communication and the University of Miami Alumni Association held the 21st Annual Canes Film Showcase at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. There, the winning films and screenplay from the 2018 ‘Canes Film Festival held on campus at the Bill Cosford Cinema were screened for movie and television industry professionals, many of [...]

2020-04-23T15:17:07-04:00June 12, 2018|Motion Pictures|
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MMA Award Winners Announced

An evaluation of the "cord-cutting" phenomenon, a viability study of virtual reality in sports and video entertainment, and an international analysis of over-the-top video services were the topics of the three winning entries of this year's Media Management Association (MMA) Awards. Samantha Ulin, majoring in Media Management and minoring in Public Relations, Psychology, and Marketing, won first place for her paper, Cord-Cutting: An Analysis of the Cable-Quitting Phenomenon.Her paper reviewed the relationships among the cord-cutting trend and traditional multichannel video programming distributors (MVPD), over-the-top services (OTT), and consumers. The second-place [...]

May 31, 2018|Media Management|
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SoC Mourns the Passing of Alumnus Mike McCormick

By: Karina Valdes The University of Miami School of Communication is mourning the loss of its alumnus Mike McCormick, B.S.C. ’04, who passed away on Monday while covering extreme weather in North Carolina for WYFF News4. McCormick and photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer both died when a tree fell on their news van. McCormick joined WYFF News4 in 2007 as a reporter. Before that he worked in Arkansas at KHBS/KHOG. “Mike was a terrific student and a great reporter. He was very outgoing and I remember him well. This is tragic news [...]

2020-04-23T15:16:04-04:00May 29, 2018|Broadcast Journalism|
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Interdisciplinary Team Receives Provost Research Award

The Provost’s Research Awards supports individual or collective research projects that contribute significantly to the growth of the university’s research portfolio. This year, a relatively small research team composed of Barbara Millet, Juan Chattah, and Soyeon Ahn, received the award to pursue an ambitious research project. The team’s project, The Congruence-Association Model in Musical Multimedia: New Insights from Eye-Tracking and Facial Expression Capture, explores the effect music has on multimedia experiences. The grant allows the team to embark in studying a topic that, although discussed at length from speculative perspectives, [...]

May 23, 2018|Interactive Media|
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UM SoC Alumna Maribel Perez Wadsworth Named USA TODAY Publisher

By: Karina Valdes USA TODAY has named University of Miami School of Communication alumna Maribel Perez Wadsworth, B.S.C. '93, as its publisher. This makes Perez Wadsworth, a Cuban-American, the first person of color to serve as the publication’s publisher. Wadsworth is the second woman to hold this position. “I’m proud and humbled that a daughter of immigrants of modest means has had an opportunity to rise to a position of leadership and influence in my industry. I am very grateful,” says Perez Wadsworth. Perez Wadsworth will remain president of the USA [...]

2020-04-23T15:15:36-04:00May 21, 2018|Journalism|
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