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Start The School Year With A Laugh…Or Three: PREP Season Begins With Comic Cure Ladies Night Out In Miami Shores

Students enrolled in the Public Relations Experience Program (PREP) ended their first week of classes with a night of laughter in Miami Shores. Comic Cure’s Ladies Night OUT was on Aug. 26 at the Miami Theater Center and served as the backdrop for a fun way to kick off a PREP semester filled with events throughout South Florida.  “Over the past year we’ve hosted more than a dozen events benefiting twenty charities and more than 140 comedians. That kind of impact can’t be done alone,” said Benjamin Leis, Comic Cure [...]

August 31, 2016|Public Relations|
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PREP Assists At Comic Cure’s First Outdoor Comedy Festival: A Rain Storm Turns Out To Be A Great Backdrop

On Friday, April 15, the Palmetto Bay community experienced the very first outdoor comedy festival, right in their backyards at Ludovici Park. The festival was hosted by Comic Cure, an organization built on promoting comedy in Miami by showcasing local talent and raising funds for local charities. For this particular show, a portion of every ticket sale benefited the Everglades Foundation. Brothers Benjamin and Richy Leis created Comic Cure in September 2015 and have since hosted comedy shows all throughout South Florida benefiting a wide variety of charities including The [...]

April 26, 2016|Public Relations|
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Dr. Weiting Tao Awarded Grant Funding from the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication

Assistant Professor Dr. Weiting Tao from the University of Miami School of Communication's Department of Strategic Communication was recently awarded funding in the form of a grant from the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Penn State University. Tao’s project, Employee Prosocial Engagement in CSR through Empowerment in Decision Making, was awarded $10,000 by the center as part of their 2016-2017 Joint Faculty-Practitioner Grant. According to Tao, “The purpose of this project is to examine how companies can motivate employees’ prosocial behavior through corporate social responsibility [...]

2019-12-17T19:27:39-05:00April 22, 2016|Doctoral, Public Relations|
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UM Student Shoots Film in Minus 43 F

On Nov. 11, 2015, the Chinese “Double 11” shopping day (like “Cyber Monday” in the U.S.), when Chinese girls were busy spending on clothes, Mingtian was desperate for money to complete her thesis film in the University of Miami School of Communication’s Master of Fine Arts program. Faced with a $15,000 shortage, the 24-year-old from Beijing decided to do crowdfunding on WeChat, the Chinese version of Instagram. “I thought that, besides buying merchandise, people may also want to spend money to help memorialize a special culture,” says Mingtian. Mingtian’s film, [...]

April 21, 2016|Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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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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Brigadier General Guest Lecturing and Recruiting

Brigadier General C. David Turner from the Army Corps of Engineers will be on campus on April 5 for two speaking engagements at the School of Communication and to discuss employment opportunities at the College of Engineering.  Ninety-five percent of the jobs available at the Army Corps of Engineers are for civilians and the corps is actively seeking individuals with communication skills. The two speaking engagements take place at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. in WCB 2046 at the School of Communication. The recruitment event takes place at 5 p.m. in [...]

April 4, 2016|Journalism, 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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Preparing for the 2017 Miami Open… and the Real World

Re-innovating public relations, social media, marketing, and promotions behind the fifth largest tennis tournament in the world is just another class assignment for the 22 public relations students in Dr. Maria Scott’s campaigns class. The students are working in teams to develop every element of a public relations campaign for the 2017 Miami Open, presented by Itau. The campaign will be presented to the client in May and implemented next year. For many of the seniors, this is exactly the kind of work they hope to be doing upon graduation. But [...]

March 22, 2016|Public Relations|
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UM’s School of Communication to Host Coral Gables Comedy Festival

Comic Cure brings the Coral Cables Comedy festival to the University of Miami campus March 31. More than 20 local comedians take the stage at Cosford Cinema to compete for the title of “fan favorite.” A portion of the proceeds benefits the Public Relations Experience Program (PREP) in the School of Communication.  “As a UM alumnus, it’s not only rewarding to bring my work back to the very campus that taught me so much, but I feel it’s my responsibility to provide a learning opportunity for students,” explained co-founder Benjamin [...]

March 17, 2016|Public Relations|
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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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