It was an exciting year in the School of Communication. A number of new initiatives began, student groups excelled in competition and the School continues to grow to be a leader in the field around the world. Check out the highlights in this year-end video!
The School of Communication honored its outstanding students, alumni, faculty and staff on May 9 at its Annual Awards Ceremony. Dean Gregory Shepherd presented the awards amid family, friends, faculty and staff at a reception at the Student Activities Center. Catie Staszak, who graduated in broadcast journalism and spoke at the School's commencement ceremony, received the School's Outstanding Senior Award. Italome Ohikhuare, an MFA in Motion Pictures whose thesis project, The Mermaid, is a film about schizophrenia, was honored as Outstanding MFA Student. Funing Tang, a doctoral student whose dissertation, Acting as Being: Ingrid [...]
Students, alumni, faculty and staff will be honored at the School of Communication Annual Awards Celebration from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, May 9 in the third floor activities rooms at the Student Activities Center, 1330 Miller Drive in Coral Gables. The celebration will honor outstanding undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty members and staff who have excelled in the 2013-2014 academic year. To attend, please RSVP to socevents@miami.edu by May 1 or contact Irmina Sheridan at 305 284-3420
Chicas Poderosas — an organization dedicated to empowering Latin American women journalists to excel in visual storytelling, data visualization and interactive media with hands-on skills training — will hold its first workshop in the United States from April 17 to 20 in Miami. The final two days of the event will be hosted at the University of Miami School of Communication, and SoC students and faculty will participate. Chicas Poderosas was founded in 2013 by the International Center for Journalists’ Knight Fellow Mariana Santos to improve the skills of women [...]
By Emily Young On Friday, Nov. 8, students, alumni, faculty, staff, and family gathered in the School of Communication courtyard to catch up and enjoy a barbecue. Alumni were back in town for the Homecoming weekend and many brought family to see their alma mater, old classmates and professors. The event allowed for current students to mingle and network with alumni from all fields and to hear about their experiences in the workforce. Professors were delighted to see recent graduates in town for the weekend and hear about their careers [...]
Speaker, writer and creativity evangelist Denise Jacobs will speak at the University of Miami School of Communication this Thursday, November 21, at 6:25 p.m. Her talk, titled "Get Unblocked," is open to the public. As a creative, you need ways to work better so that you can create more, but what do you do when you hit a seemingly insurmountable mental wall? You need to get unblocked: to bust through that barrier to allow creativity to flow. Combining the neuroscience of creativity, productivity hacks, and practices that spur innovation and synergistic collaboration, [...]
Assistant Professor Clay Ewing, of the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media, recently returned from CERN, the birthplace of the world wide web and the Higgs Boson, after participating in TribecaHacks Story Matter, a 5 day hackathon for interactive storytelling about science. Each hackathon team was made up of a storyteller, scientist, blackbox, designer, and technologist. Clay provided his creative technical skills to make a sensory based narrative called Climate Anxiety. For his installation, a user puts on a MindWave EEG sensor and enters a long black box. At the [...]
Attention School of Communication Students and Alumni!Don’t miss out on next week’s Mix and Mingle event! This is a great opportunity to meet and connect with local employers. Join us and build your professional network!! Make sure to RSVP by clicking the link: http://bit.ly/socmingle14 and use the password: networking Some of the companies that are expected to attend: Max Borges AgencyGeorge Ortiz CastingMiami Short Film FestivalSusan G. KomenExecutive South Florida MagazineMiami MarlinsPintaKottonZoo
For the first time, the Center for Innovation and Creativity Media (CIC Media) and The Media Office (TMO) bring together the First International Seminar on Innovation for Content Creation hosted by the University of Miami. This event will be held at The Bill Cosford Cinema in the School of Communication on April 3rd from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. “We at the University of Miami, are delighted to host this event given that Innovation is at the forefront of Communications in today's globally interdependent and competitive world,” said Joseph Ganitsky, [...]
Graduate students in the new Interactive Media Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Miami School of Communication presented their first end-of-semester public show December 18 at The LAB Miami in Wynwood. Friends, family, guests from Miami's tech community and journalists attended the show, which featured a set of interactive prototypes built in Physical Computing and Programming for Designers courses. The projects experiment with interactions between physical and digital worlds including games, musical instruments, interactive art and visualization. The prototypes were built using Processing, a programming language particularly good for vizualising [...]
