UMTV Sweeps NBS-AERho Nominations
UMTV swept the 56th Annual National Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition with 10 nominations recognizing the organizationβs excellence in TV production. Winners will be announced at the 77th NBS-AERho: National Electronic Media Association National Convention, March 7-9 in Philadelphia.Β βIt feels amazing,β said Breana Ross, senior and UMTV station manager, who anchored the nominated UMTV Midterm Election Special. βItβs actually the first show that I have been physically on thatβs been nominated for an award, so that feels amazing. All the hard work paid off.β The station is nominated for [...]
Alumna Wins Two Regional Emmys
UM School of Communication alumna Valeria BriceΓ±o, B.S.C. β17, won two Emmy awards at the 42ndΒ Annual Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards last month. BriceΓ±o, who graduated from UM with a bachelorβs degree in Broadcast Journalism and Public Relations, was the youngest employee at Univision when she created the show that would win her these two prestigious awards. βIβm from Venezuela actually, so once I graduated from high school, I came here to this country to do politics or law. But in my first semester I said, you know what, communication is [...]
Two UMTV Shows Nominated for College Television Awards
For the first time in over 15 years, two of UMTVβs weekly shows were nominated for the Television Academy Foundation 39th College Television Awards, one of the most prestigious honors for student production in the country. Produced by the same foundation that coordinates the Emmys, the College Television Awards almost mimics the famous television awards show and attracts college students from around the country to Hollywood each year. This year, 25 nominees were selected out of 600 submissions from 174 colleges across the nation, and UMTVβs NewsVision and SportsDesk were [...]
April Dobbins, M.F.A. Motion Pictures Student, Receives Recognition from Sundance Institute
April Dobbinsβ documentary, Alabamaland, is certain to open thought-provoking discussion and provide important on-screen representation β and the Sundance Institute agrees. The part-time University of Miami graduate student, full-time UM Director of Prestigious Awards and Fellowships in the Office of Academic Enhancement, and UM adjunct faculty can add Sundance Institute Documentary Fund Grantee to her remarkable list of accolades. βHaving all these responsibilities has taught me a great deal about time and project management,β said Dobbins. βMy time at UM has taught me to pivot when necessary and the entire [...]
UM Debate Wins Tournament Championships in National Opener
The UM Debate team dominated its competition at the National Opener hosted by Georgia State University in Atlanta, one of the largest and most intensely competitive intercollegiate policy debate tournaments in the country. This yearβs tournament, held from September 15-17, saw the UM Debate Team winning two of the three championships offered by the event. Harvard won the third.Β In Novice Debate, Sana Hasija and Zach Homeijer were undefeated, advancing into the final round where they won a 3-0 decision against student debaters from Indiana University to earn the title [...]
Advertising Alumna Wins Top Award at Cannes Lions
It was 2012 Ultra weekend in Miami. Throngs of EDM lovers donning glitter tube tops and face paint crowded Museum park, including UM SoC alumnus and senior at the time Erin Evon. That year Evon was competing in NSAC β a national advertising competition β and when the adviser of the team, Meryl Blau, called her for some last-minuteΒ help, Evon, rainbow outfit and all, deserted the music festival and rushed to her teamβs aid.Β Evon graduated from the SoCβs creative advertising program in 2012, and this year, she won seven [...]