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Build-a-Robot

Taylor Gandolfi graduated from the University of Miami in 2016 with a Master of Fine Arts in Interactive Media and an impressive portfolio. As part of the program’s capstone project, Gandolfi built her own robotic hand. After graduating from Eastern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in 2014, Gandolfi decided that University of Miami School of Communication was the right fit for her. A physical computing and prototyping class sparked Gandolfi’s interest in robotics. Once she learned the basics, she was given physical computing-related projects [...]

September 26, 2016|Interactive Media|
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Did You Get to Know us?

On Aug. 30, the rain didn't stop University of Miami’s award-winning publications and organizations from getting together and encouraging students to get involved. Organized by the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), club leaders and interested students gathered around free pizza and soda to listen to the benefits of joining one of the many organizations the School of Communication has to offer. PRSSA is a pre-professional organization open to all students that aims to give real-world public relations experience. Professor Heidi Carr, the faculty adviser for UM PRSSA, says [...]

September 6, 2016|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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MFA Student Awarded WaveMaker Grant

April Dobbins, a graduate student in the motion pictures program, has been awarded a $10,000 WaveMaker grant for her Alabamaland documentary film. WaveMaker grants, administered by Miami-based non-profit Cannonball, recently presented artists with funding. Fourteen WaveMaker Grants winners were selected from more than 100 applicants. Each WaveMaker grantee was awarded up to $10,000 and $100,000 was awarded in total. Dobbins works full-time as the director of prestigious awards and fellowships in the Office of Academic Enhancement and is half-time in the motion pictures M.F.A. program.  She used the funds to [...]

2019-12-17T19:26:11-05:00August 9, 2016|Interactive Media|
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UM’s M.F.A. in Interactive Media Students Win Sea Level Rise Challenge

The Interactive Canes Team, composed of students from the Interactive Media M.F.A. program at the University of Miami School of Communication, won first place in the AeroTech-Concursive Sea Level Rise Challenge. The contest, sponsored by the Old Dominion University Center for Enterprise Innovation’s (CEI) grant program GOV2COM and the Strome Entrepreneurial Center, asked innovators to devise a mobile application that would efficiently deal with the economic and life threatening consequences produced by sea level rise and flooding in Norfolk, Virginia. “Norfolk and Miami, like many other coastal communities, face similar [...]

2019-12-17T19:26:25-05:00July 26, 2016|Interactive Media|
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UM Welcomes CIC Media’s Fourth Innovation for Media Content Creation Seminar

What would be the next big thing in this multiplatform entertainment landscape? How will it be created? These are part of the key questions to be discussed during the fourth annual Innovation for Media Content Creation seminar (InnovationMCC) held in partnership with University of Miami School of Communication on April 19.  The Innovation for Media Content Creation seminar is an educational initiative from the Center for Innovation and Creativity in Media (CIC Media), an organization led by global executive and international Emmy-award nominee, Marlon Quintero. The event is an exclusive opportunity for students and creative professionals to learn [...]

April 7, 2016|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Building Community Foundations: Career Advancement at the School of Communication

The blustery winds and threatening rain didn’t prevent students from attending the School of Communication’s Recruitment Pavilion, the first career fair organized by the Stein Family Office of Career Services, featuring companies companies tailored specifically to SoC industries. Toppel’s annual networking mixer, the Communication Meet-Up, followed the event, allowing students and recruiters to interact on a more personal level.  “We wanted to build on it [Meet-Up] and really foster the relationships with our local partners to build a community between our students and the recruiters” says Career Services and Internships Coordinator Kebrina Maharaj who [...]

April 4, 2016|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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University of Miami’s Interactive Media Program Named to The Princeton Review 2016 List, “Top 25 Graduate Schools to Study Game Design”

University of Miami School of Communication’s Interactive Media Program has earned a #23 ranking on The Princeton Review's just-published list saluting the top 25 graduate schools to study game design for 2016. The Princeton Review chose the schools based on a survey it conducted in 2015 of 150 institutions offering game design coursework and/or degrees in the United States, Canada, and some countries abroad. The company's 40-question survey asked schools to report on everything from their academic offerings and faculty credentials to their graduates’ starting salaries and employment experience. Among [...]

March 17, 2016|Interactive Media|
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Faculty Wins Best of Competition for Mobile App at BEA

Running into high school friend Meghana Reddy in Manhattan sent Professor Clay Ewing on a journey that would eventually result in a 2016 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Best of Competition award for ROC United Mobile Diners’ Guide.  In 2012, Clay Ewing, interactive media professor at University of Miami School of Communication, ran into Reddy at a subway stop by the Apple Store in Chelsea. At the time, Reddy was working for Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), a national organization dedicated to bettering the wages and working conditions of the [...]

2019-12-17T19:35:23-05:00March 14, 2016|Interactive Media|
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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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