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PREP’s Final Banger at the PRADDY Awards 2018

Students of the University of Miami Public Relations Experience Program (PREP) concluded their academic year with a bang at the Department of Strategic Communication’s PRADDY Awards. The PRADDY Awards provide a platform for both advertising and public relations students to showcase their work in and out of classroom. The event was held at UM School of Communication’s Shoma Hall on April 30.   “It’s exciting to work an event that I get to see all my peers and classmates at,” said Lina Abdullah, a junior PREP student majoring in Public Relations. “I not only [...]

2019-12-17T19:22:38-05:00May 15, 2018|Advertising, Public Relations|
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Cross Country ’Cane

California native Liat Cohen found her Miami experience to be collaborative and inspiring. A first-generation college student and the second daughter in a close-knit family, it was almost unthinkable for Liat Cohen to leave home. But “go away to college” she did—across the country, from California to Florida, finding her new home at the University of Miami. In her four years at UM, Cohen cultivated a passion for leadership, joining the executive board of three student organizations. As part of Student Government, she became the youngest member chosen from undergraduate [...]

May 10, 2018|Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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An Accidental Designer

Alex Kamphorst discusses how his extracurricular involvement led him to his true passion of public relations. When Alex Kamphorst arrived at the University of Miami, he was a marine science major with aspirations to work in marine conservation. In fact, the prestigious undergraduate program at UM’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science first attracted Kamphorst to attend Miami. But after a year in the program, Alex became skeptical of his career choice.    “It was like my right brain took over and I needed to be in an environment where [...]

May 3, 2018|Public Relations|
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Communication Researcher Graduates Summa Cum Laude

Ever since transferring into the School of Communication her sophomore year, Celeste Balboni knew she had found her place. She decided to declare a major within the SoC when she began taking courses at the school and became involved with the Public Relations Experience Program (PREP). The following semester, she began to take more general courses, like Freedom of Expression and Communication Ethics and ultimately declared Communication Studies as her major. “It was one of the first classes that I took in the School of Communication and that’s what made [...]

May 3, 2018|Communication Studies|
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Interactive Media End-of-Year Showcase

Come play with us! The Interactive Media End of Year Show is May 3 at 5 p.m. in the University of Miami School of Communication Koenigsberg and Nadal Interactive Media Center. The annual showcase features work by students in the Interactive Media program ranging from games, physical computing, and web, to augmented and virtual reality projects. This event is open to the public.

April 30, 2018|Interactive Media|
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Aurora Occa: Reaching global audiences through her passion for health communication

Originally from Ceriano Laghetto, a small town just outside of Milan, Italy, Aurora Occa has certainly traveled and accomplished plenty throughout her collegiate career. Aside from the School of Communication’s top-notch Ph.D. program and varied resources, Occa fell in love with the school’s culture and compatibility with her interests. In May, she will graduate with a Ph.D. in Communication. Occa’s focus for her degree is on health communication, particularly on encouraging individuals to participate in clinical trials, understand trial expectations, and effectively communicate with physicians. Occa has also worked to [...]

April 26, 2018|Doctoral|
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Nine UM SoC Faculty Awarded a Creative Activity and Research Grant

Nine University of Miami School of Communication faculty were awarded a School of Communication Creative Activity and Research Grant from the Center for Communication, Culture, and Change for the 2018-2019 academic year. The grant supports research and projects that will result in clear and prominent scholarly and/or creative accomplishments that enhance the reputation of the School of Communication. Below is a brief summary of the grant recipients and their projects. Ching-Hua Chuan, research associate professor in the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media, received a grant for Creating Chatbots for Domain-Specific [...]

2019-12-16T18:33:07-05:00April 18, 2018|Advertising, Interactive Media, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Two SoC Students Receive Scholarship

UM Family Night with the Miami Marlins featured a day at the ballpark with activities for faculty and staff, and a special pregame on-field presentation from The Miami Marlins Community Foundation Suzanne Rayson Scholarship Fund to two School of Communication students.  On April 14, Amanda Fuentes and David Perez were each presented with a $2,500 scholarship from The Suzanne Rayson Scholarship Fund benefiting students studying broadcast journalism who have shown an interest in sports broadcasting. Rayson, who served as the Marlins director of broadcasting from 2002 to 2008, died after [...]

April 18, 2018|Broadcast Journalism|
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MMA Meeting: How to Sell Noncommercial Television

On April 10, the Media Management Association hosted Heidi Lieb, senior director of business development at WPBT, to talk about the mechanism and strategies used to sell public television underwriting messages. She came to the South Florida noncommercial television station with considerable sales experience in the private sector, including a three-year stint as an account executive at ESPN. Lieb began her presentation by describing the type of corporate culture that influences PBS operations and discussing the importance of the corporation’s established values and beliefs in approaching underwriters. Public Broadcasting Service [...]

April 16, 2018|Media Management|
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Ibis and Distraction Win at CSPA

The 2017 Ibis yearbook won 57 Gold Circle Awards or individual awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association at Columbia University.   “This is an outstanding number of individual awards. I am proud of Kaitlin Castillo and her staff for producing a great University of Miami Ibis yearbook that is recognized nationally as well as on campus,” said Randy Stano, editorial adviser for the Ibis yearbook. The Ibis brought home 24 first place awards out of 39 categories in the yearbook competition. The Ibis staff swept five categories by winning first, second, [...]

2019-12-17T19:23:00-05:00April 13, 2018|Journalism|
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