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2016 Staub Award Recipient Announced

University of Miami School of Communication announces Professor Ana François as this academic year’s recipient of the Robert and Christine Staub Faculty Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Effective Teaching. François was recognized at the school’s annual end-of-year celebration and award show. The Staub award recognizes a School of Communication faculty member for effectiveness in teaching, advising, mentoring, and service roles in and outside the classroom and is made possible through an endowed gift from UM alumnus Robert Staub, B.B.A. ’56, and his wife, Christine. Recipients of the Staub Faculty Excellence Award [...]

2019-12-17T19:26:51-05:00June 3, 2016|Journalism, Media Management|
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67th Annual Student Media Awards

On April 26, University of Miami School of Communication honored its students, alumni, and faculty at the 67th Annual Student Media Awards. Shoma Hall was filled with students, friends, and family, as hosts Danny New and S. Molly Dominick from UMTV’s Off the Wire introduced the first award as the “Please Become an Adjunct Award,” officially known as the Communicator of the Year. This year’s Communicator of the Year was UM alumnus Dan Le Batard. Le Batard graduated from UM in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in communication, majoring [...]

2019-12-17T19:27:25-05:00May 5, 2016|Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, Journalism, Media Management|
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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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UMTV Wins 8 Journalism, Programming Awards

UMTV received three first place awards from the National Broadcasting Society’s honor society Alpha Epsilon Rho, three first place Region 3 Mark of Excellence awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, and two second place awards from the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters. The Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists honor the best in collegiate journalism reporting. SPJ’s Region 3 is comprised of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. The winners from University of Miami School of Communication are Oliver Redsten for Grove Wall in the Television [...]

2019-12-17T19:27:53-05:00April 20, 2016|Broadcast Journalism, Electronic Media, Journalism, Media Management|
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UM Debate Wins Coastal Division Championship, Runner up in ACC Tournament

From April 15-17, the UM Debate Team of Renee Reneau and Michael Fuentes competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference Debate Championship tournament, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and supported by the ACC Academic Consortium under the direction of David G. Brown.  "The ACC Debate Championship is a first class event that bridges the success of our outstanding athletic conference with the academic excellence of our member schools," says David Steinberg, director of debate.   The teams competed on both sides of the topic, Resolved: That [...]

2019-12-17T19:34:25-05:00April 18, 2016|Communication Studies|
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Creative Activity and Research Grants Winners Announced

The School of Communication has announced the winners of the 2015-2016 Creative Activity and Research Grants. This year, both recipients hail from the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media. Dr. Christina Lane and Professor Dia Kontaxis have been selected by an interdisciplinary committee of peers from the school to receive direct cost funding to support their projects. The goal of this funding mechanism is to support work that results in clear and prominent scholarly and/or creative accomplishments that support the enhanced reputation of the School of Communication. Dr. Lane’s proposed [...]

2019-12-17T19:34:38-05:00April 11, 2016|Motion Pictures|
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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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Gold Crowns for Ibis and Distraction

University of Miami’s printed editions of the 2014-2015 Distraction magazine and 2015 Ibis yearbook were named Gold Crown winners by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) at Columbia University during the College Media Association conference in New York City on March 13.  “This is a wonderful tribute to the two staffs. I am thrilled and honored to be able to work with such a talented and dedicated group of University of Miami students,” said Randy Stano, the editorial adviser for the two publications. Ibis was one of three college Gold [...]

2019-12-17T19:35:09-05:00March 15, 2016|Journalism|
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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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Ibis Wins Awards from ACP, CSPA

Ibis, University of Miami’s yearbook, was named one of the 14 college yearbook Pacemaker Finalists by the Associated Collegiate Press for its issue from the 2014 – 2015 academic year. According to Randy Stano, the editorial adviser for Ibis, the yearbook has received 13 Pacemaker Finalists and has won eight Pacemaker Awards. This is the top honor that a publication can receive from ACP. “This is outstanding news for the entire staff for all the hard work. The dedication and long hours have paid off,” Stano said. The editor-in-chief for [...]

2019-12-17T19:35:34-05:00March 7, 2016|Journalism|
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