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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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UM Hosts Irish Debaters

The University of Miami’s Debate Team will host three award-winning Irish debaters on Monday, April 4, at 6 p.m. in the Shalala Student Activity Center, Activities Room South, third floor on the motion this house believes the political success of Donald J. Trump in the Republican primaries is a reflection of the demise of American democracy.  The Irish Times newspaper has hosted the debate tour to the U.S. since 1980. Every year, four schools are selected to host the team and UM has been selected to host for the past [...]

March 31, 2016|Communication Studies|
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Superintendent of Everglades National Park to Visit UM

Pedro Ramos, superintendent of Everglades National Park, is visiting University of Miami School of Communication on Tuesday, March 29, to speak with students about the Everglades and the National Park Services.  Ramos’ visit is an opportunity for students studying journalism to put their skills to work. Professor Joseph B. Treaster tasked students in his class to ask Ramos questions during his visit and then write a hard news lead on his remarks.

March 28, 2016|Journalism|
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Student Films Win Big at MIFF

The University of Miami School of Communication was a big winner at Miami International Film Festival’s (MIFF) CinemaSlam, taking home four out of seven possible awards. SoC films won Best Documentary, Best Actor, Best Director, and Miami CinemaSlam Champion 2016 at the fifth annual local student competition. The UM film I Want to Beat Up Clark Peters, which focuses on getting revenge on a “hook up who hooked up with someone else,” scooped up awards for Best Actor, Best Director, and CinemaSlam Champion. Director Joseph Picozzi, a graduate of the [...]

2019-12-17T19:34:54-05:00March 28, 2016|Motion Pictures|
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UOnline Lunch and Learn: Essential Communication Skills for Healthcare Providers

On March 30 from 12 to 12:30 p.m. EST, lecturer Dr. Valerie Giroux will lead an online presentation and Q&A session on the importance of communication skills to everything from patient compliance and quality of life to satisfaction and even the potential for malpractice suits. The lunch-and-learn webinar Essential Communication Skills for Healthcare Providers is free and open to all. Dr. Giroux teaches Interpersonal Communication in the online master’s in Communication Studies and has taught Leadership Studies, The Executive Communicator, Nonverbal Communication, and other courses on campus. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership/Administration and her M.A. in Speech [...]

March 25, 2016|Communication Studies|
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University of Miami School of Communication Joins Toppel Career Center to Enhance Career Connections

The University of Miami’s School of Communication and Toppel Career Center are hosting Communication Meet-Up, a day of career connections and networking on Wednesday, March 30, 2016. Building off of the success of the 2015 Communication and Interactive Media Meet-Up, the School of Communication is introducing a new program, the Recruitment Pavilion. Taking place at 5100 Brunson Drive from 3-6 p.m., the Recruitment Pavilion presented by the the Stein Family Office of Career Services at the School of Communication brings recruiters on campus to meet one-on-one with students to discuss job and [...]

March 24, 2016|Uncategorized|
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NYU Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Collaborates with University of Miami to Preserve the Work of Buky Schwartz

The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the University of Miami’s Norton Herrick Center for Motion Picture Studies have joined forces with the Estate of Buky Schwartz to preserve the late artist’s extensive archive of multimedia works. From the mid-1970s, Schwartz’s installations employed video and closed-circuit television to shape a viewer’s perception of sculpture and space. MIAP graduate student Eddy Colloton has cataloged, assessed, and planned for the preservation of Schwartz’s video works as part of a year-long thesis project, [...]

March 22, 2016|Motion Pictures|
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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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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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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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