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Annual Awards Ceremony Honors Students, Alumnus, Faculty and Staff

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 [...]

2019-12-17T19:43:20-05:00June 2, 2014|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Student Achievement Honored at Annual Student Showcase, PRADDYs

School of Communication students were awarded for their outstanding work this academic year on Monday night at the 65th Annual Student Showcase and the PRADDYs. The Showcase also honored alumna Lissette Gonzalez, meteorologist for WFOR, CBS4 in Miami, as the SoC Communicator of the Year. Gonzalez graduated UM with a double major in broadcast journalism and vocal performance. She went on to obtain an additional degree as a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist from Mississippi State University with honors. She also earned the National Weather Association (NWA) Television Weathercaster Seal of Approval [...]

2019-12-17T19:44:08-05:00June 2, 2014|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, Journalism, Media Management, Public Relations|
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Celebrate Achievement At The School of Communication Annual Awards Ceremony

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

June 2, 2014|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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SoC To Host Chicas Poderosas Interactive Storytelling Workshop

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 [...]

June 2, 2014|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Doctoral, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Miami Herald Journalist Joins Department of Strategic Communication

At first, Heidi Carr thought it seemed a bit ironic that she would be teaching public relations classes at the School of Communication. But then it occurred to her that no one knows how to attract media attention better than a writer and editor who spent more than 20 years listening to public relations professionals try to persuade her to cover their client or event. Sometimes, it’s good to have an outsider’s perspective. So it could be said the Department of Strategic Communications made a strategic move this fall by [...]

April 7, 2014|Advertising, Public Relations|
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PR Major Re-Elected to Represent SoC in Student Government

Renee Perez, a sophomore majoring in public relations and political science, won re-election as the School of Communication senator in early October. Perez is also the vice chair of the public relations committee for student government and uses the skills she has learned in the classroom to keep students informed about student government initiatives.“I love that I can improve student government by using my public relations skills,” Perez said. “I recently designed a poll to help student government make plans to make San Amaro Drive safer. It made me realize [...]

April 7, 2014|Public Relations|
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Barbecue Unites Alumni and Students for Homecoming

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 [...]

April 7, 2014|Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communication Studies, Electronic Media, Interactive Media, Journalism, Media Management, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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Sports Publicist Natalie Mikolich, B.S.C. ’06, addresses PRSSA

Natalie P. Mikolich, B.S.C. '06, a sports publicist who has worked with various world class professional and Olympic athletes along with some of the leading sports and entertainment agencies, will speak on Friday to the UM chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America about sports publicity and entrepreneurship.  Mikolich launched her boutique firm, npm pr, in 2007. A former UM tennis player, she specializes in working with Olympic and professional athletes (such as ATP World Tour Greatest Doubles Team of All-time Bob & Mike Bryan, WTA World #1 [...]

April 7, 2014|Public Relations|
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UMPRSSA Hosts Résumé Workshop and Talk With Executive

UMPRSSA will host a résumé workshop with public relations professionals and a talk from Sandra Fine, VP of rbb Public Relations and immediate past president of Miami PRSA on Jan. 28 from 6:25 to 7:40 in Shoma Hall. Fine brings a broad range of media relations, corporate reputation management, consumer marketing and public affairs experience to rbb. Throughout her career, she has handled public relations and marketing campaigns for a wide variety of consumer and corporate clients in the luxury travel, leisure, fitness, real estate, food and beverage and energy industries.  [...]

April 7, 2014|Public Relations|
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Former Saks CEO Stephen Sadove Talks Retail With SoC Students

By Chelsea Wortham UM News   Mobile Internet devices that have led to greater access to communication have changed the overall retail experience for shoppers, shifting power away from merchants and manufacturers to the consumer, Stephen Sadove, former chairman and CEO of Saks Incorporated, told a group of University of Miami School of Communication students on Thursday.   Speaking in Shoma Hall on the topic “What’s Going On with the Retail Consumer Today?” Sadove discussed the evolution of “omni-channel retailing”— the experience shoppers have with retailers through computers, brick-and-mortar stores, [...]

April 7, 2014|Advertising, Journalism, Public Relations|
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