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Top PR Pros, Scholars from Around the Globe Head to Miami

Hundreds of public relations graduate students, professors, and practitioners from all over the world will gather for the 19th International Public Relations Research Conference, March 2-6, at the Holiday Inn near University of Miami. With this year’s focus on The Public Relations of Public Diplomacy and Nation Building/Branding, 103 cutting-edge public relations research papers will be delivered in a style unique to this conference: Presenters lead informal roundtable discussions of their work throughout the day. “It’s like high-speed dating,” says Don Stacks, Ph.D., professor in UM’s School of Communication Department [...]

February 29, 2016|Public Relations|
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UM Debate Team hosts The U Debates

The University of Miami Debate Team will host The U Debates on the Coral Gables Campus for the Miami-Dade Urban Debate League (UDL), on February 27. Since last year, the UM Debate Team has been working with the National Association of Urban Debate League and the newly formed Miami Dade Urban Debate League to close the achievement gap in local urban schools by giving students the opportunity to compete in academic debate. UM has been integral in launching the Miami league. Since September, UM has hosted five workshops, a practice [...]

February 25, 2016|Communication Studies|
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Disney Animation Artist Visits UM School of Communication

University of Miami School of Communication will host Disney Animation Artist Matthias Lechner for a special Q&A and behind the scenes look at the upcoming film, Zootopia, on Monday, February 29, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. As an art director of environments, Lechner collaborated to define the style of Zootopia’s backgrounds and sets. He worked with other members of Walt Disney Animation Studios to create the imaginative world of Zootopia and to describe how the animals played, worked, moved, and lived together. “I came full circle—growing up loving The Jungle Book to [...]

February 22, 2016|Motion Pictures|
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With an Iron Arrow and Dose of Deception, Honor Society Taps 31 New Members

Journalism Professor Sam Terilli was waiting, impatiently, in the School of Communication courtyard Thursday morning for a meeting with a couple of University of Miami trustees and potential donors. They were late and he was ready to leave. He had a class to teach. But Terilli, the second vice chair of the Faculty Senate and chair of the Department of Journalism and Media Management, would not make it to his class. Instead, he was about to become one of 31 new members inducted into the Iron Arrow Honor Society. As [...]

February 22, 2016|Journalism|
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Experience UM’s Innovation at FilmGate Interactive Creative Conference

University of Miami School of Communication is hosting several hands-on and interactive events during this year’s FilmGate Interactive Creative Conference. Guests can explore dynamic student and faculty work, meet cinema and interactive media creators and innovators, and attend informative workshops and panels with the school’s faculty. “This is a terrific way for us to bring our ongoing educational efforts alive for a much broader community of industry professionals, business leaders, and creatives, and to highlight the impressive work that goes on year-round,” says Professor Christina Lane, chair of the Department [...]

February 19, 2016|Interactive Media, Motion Pictures|
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Director Susan Seidelman to Lead Master Classes and Screening

Director Susan Seidelman, known for Desperately Seeking Susan, She-Devil, and episodes of Sex and the City, will lead several master classes and host a screening at University of Miami School of Communication from February 24-26. Susan Seidelman’s arrival on the indie scene was heralded more than thirty years ago when she was the first American to have a film (The Smithereens) nominated for the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. She has led the way for filmmakers seeking alternative routes of financing, production, and distribution ever since. To date, [...]

February 18, 2016|Interactive Media, Motion Pictures|
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World Information Architecture Day Comes to School of Communication

University of Miami School of Communication is hosting World Information Architecture Day (WIAD) on Saturday, Feb. 20, 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.  The event brings together a diverse community of information architects, user experience designers, content strategists, product managers, developers, scholars, and students to share their experience in designing information in a manner that is useful. The full day occasion will celebrate WIAD along with 69 other locations across the globe. This year’s theme is Information Everywhere, Architects Everywhere. Featuring keynote speaker Richard Saul Wurman, the event has a line up [...]

February 17, 2016|Interactive Media, Journalism|
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MMA Speaker to Discuss the Future of Film and Television Consumption

Jeff Ulin, a media executive, attorney, lecturer, entrepreneur, and author, will talk about the future of consuming film and television and its challenges to the ecosystem at the next meeting of the Media Management Association (MMA) on Monday, February 29, at 5:30 pm. His presentation will take place in Shoma Hall (CIB 3053). All students and faculty are welcome. Ulin has spent more than 25 years in the media business, including four years as senior vice president for business affairs and general counsel at Paramount and Universal Home Entertainment and [...]

February 16, 2016|Media Management|
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SoC Faculty Recipients of 2016 Provost’s Research Awards Announced

Four School of Communication professors received 2016 Provost’s Research Awards, which will provide salary support and direct research costs to the faculty for a wide range of research projects. School of Communication faculty received four awards, one in the arts discipline and three for research in the social sciences. Professors Sanjeev Chatterjee, Lien Tran, Gunwoo Yoon, and Nick Carcioppolo are this year’s recipients from the School of Communication. Cinema and Interactive Media Professor Sanjeev Chatterjee was awarded the Max Orovitz Research Award in Arts and Humanities. Chatterjee was recognized for [...]

February 15, 2016|Communication Studies, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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UM PREP Students Support Miami Children’s Health Foundation’s Wine, Women and Shoes Event

Miami Children’s Health Foundation’s Wine, Women and Shoes is the perfect formula for a fun, fashion-filled day for women to celebrate the miracles that happen on a daily basis at the hospital. More than 600 ladies donned their highest and funkiest heels at the JW Marriott Marquis in Downtown Miami to help raise more than $600,000 while shopping in the event’s marketplace and sipping on wine. MCHF holds a number of fundraising events annually that help the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital give children the chance to achieve their dreams. This event [...]

February 12, 2016|Public Relations|
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