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Debate Team Wins Big at ADA Nationals

By Lizzie Wilcox University of Miami’s debate team is comprised of veteran, novice and humble debaters. Regardless of how many years of experience under their belts, Hurricane debaters won awards across the board at the American Debate Association National tournament March 13-16 at the University of Georgia. Partners Melissa Cavell and Anna Shah won tenth and eleventh place for individual speaker at the tournament over spring break. The duo also got second place for the Front Royal Cup in the novice division, which, according to Shah, is a new award [...]

2019-12-17T19:40:16-05:00March 23, 2015|Communication Studies|
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Media Management Association Meeting: “How to Break into the Field?”

By Christina Gordon In February, the Media Management Association hosted a meet and greet with Megan DeMilia, a UM School of Communication media management graduate and account executive at WPLG Local 10. DeMilia sat down with communication students to share her unique journey from undergraduate student to full-time employee at a top TV station in Miami. DeMilia entered UM’s School of Communication when media management was a new major. Though her classes in her major focused on such topics as media programming and economics, none provided skills or information related [...]

March 20, 2015|Media Management|
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UM Publications Take Top Awards at CMA

University of Miami publications received two Gold Crowns and nine Apple Awards at the College Media Association Conference in New York City held March 11-14, 2015. The Crowns are honors given by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and are the highest award a publication can earn from CSPA. Apple Awards, given in honor of David L. Adams, are a Best in Show award given each year at the CMA Spring Conference in New York City. The College Media Association is a source for media educators and advisers of student publications, [...]

2019-12-17T19:40:32-05:00March 20, 2015|Journalism|
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The Colombian National Police and the Security of Children

The Center for Communication, Culture and Change is proud to host Brigadier General William Salamanca, Director of Protection and Special Services (DIPRO) for the Colombian National Police on April 2 at 1 p.m. in Shoma Hall, CIB 3053, at the School of Communication. General Salamanca will speak about the work that the Colombian National Police have done to address the commercial sexual exploitation of children in his home country of Colombia. Working with Assistant Professor Lien Tran and Doctoral Candidate Jessica Wendorf of the School of Communication at the University [...]

March 18, 2015|Doctoral|
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Game to Reduce Indoor Tanning Use

School of Communication professors Soyoon Kim and Clay Ewing are recipients of the Center for Communication, Culture and Change's 2015 Research Award. Their project, which will focus on using an innovative digital game to reduce the use of indoor tanning among young adults, will assess the game's effectiveness on psychological and behavioral determinants of indoor tanning behavior. According to Professor Kim, “The period of young adulthood is a vulnerable one, and using indoor tanning facilities without realizing or downplaying its risk is one of many other consequential unhealthy choices that our target audience can [...]

2019-12-17T19:40:48-05:00March 13, 2015|Communication Studies, Interactive Media|
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Examining Social Comparison Effects on Facebook

Research Award recipients Professors Cong Li and Nick Carcioppolo will soon begin work on their Center for Communication, Culture and Change project "Do Our Friends Make Us Feel Worse? Examining Social Comparison Effects on Facebook​," which will study the influence of social comparison on Facebook users’ emotions and life satisfaction through an experiment using perceived psychological closeness and perceived message relevance.  “Facebook users consume a large amount of information provided by their friends every day," said Professor Li.  "The most interesting part of this project is to demonstrate how such [...]

2019-12-16T18:49:33-05:00March 12, 2015|Communication Studies|
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UM School of Communication Students Win 14 ADDYs

Mailers, apps and marketing campaigns characterized by their innovation led to School of Communication students taking home six gold and eight silver local ADDY awards. Students used skills learned in the classroom to take on corporate clients by creating campaigns for Mary Kay, Maker’s Mark and Johnnie Walker. They also tackled global and social problems, ingeniously addressing the issues of cyber bullying, Ebola and childhood obesity. Winning a gold or silver local ADDY award is the first of three steps to the national Student American Advertising Awards Competition. “The ADDYs [...]

2019-12-17T19:41:04-05:00March 10, 2015|Advertising, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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And The Award Goes To…

By Lizzie Wilcox Two high school outcasts stumble across a cannibalistic alien and find themselves caught up in a big government conspiracy. No, this is not breaking news; it is Megan Rico’s screenplay that won her the Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting. The Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship is awarded to an undergraduate student who plans to pursue a career in screenwriting. The Writers Guild of America, East Foundation chooses the recipient from a number of universities and colleges. The winner is provided with $10,000 and a mentor to write [...]

2019-12-17T19:41:30-05:00March 4, 2015|Motion Pictures|
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Professor Ed Talavera’s Work Screening at MIFF

By Barbara Gutierrez The camera work of University of Miami Professor Ed Talavera, chair of the Cinema and Interactive Media department, will be on display during this year’s Miami International Film Festival’s Culinary Cinema along with the marvelous cuisine of Peruvian chef extraordinaire Gaston Acurio. Finding Gaston, a film Talavera co-produced and filmed with director Patricia Perez, will be shown on Monday, March 9 at the Miami Dade College’s Tower Cinema as part of this year’s festival. The documentary is a gastronomical gem that follows Peruvian chef and world-renown restauranteur [...]

February 24, 2015|Interactive Media|
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How 25 Hours Without Sleep Produces Professional Advertising Campaigns for Nonprofits

Sleep is overrated. No one knows that better than Meryl Blau, faculty advisor to PhilADthropy and professor at University of Miami’s School of Communication. Since 2010, Blau has put together 16 teams of student and professional volunteers and led them on a 25-hour caffeine-fueled advertising rolling coaster. The end result? Sixteen nonprofits walk away with professional advertising materials that have been used in local and national campaigns.  “In 25 hours you guys were able to make all this?” asked Amir Whitaker, founder of Project Knucklehead, “You guys have been able [...]

February 13, 2015|Advertising, Public Relations|
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