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Debate Team Wins Big at ADA Nationals

By Lizzie Wilcox University of Miami’s debate team is comprised of veteran, novice and humble debaters. Regardless of how many years of experience under their belts, Hurricane debaters won awards across the board at the American Debate Association National tournament March 13-16 at the University of Georgia. Partners Melissa Cavell and Anna Shah won tenth and eleventh place for individual speaker at the tournament over spring break. The duo also got second place for the Front Royal Cup in the novice division, which, according to Shah, is a new award [...]

2019-12-17T19:40:16-05:00March 23, 2015|Communication Studies|
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UM Publications Take Top Awards at CMA

University of Miami publications received two Gold Crowns and nine Apple Awards at the College Media Association Conference in New York City held March 11-14, 2015. The Crowns are honors given by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and are the highest award a publication can earn from CSPA. Apple Awards, given in honor of David L. Adams, are a Best in Show award given each year at the CMA Spring Conference in New York City. The College Media Association is a source for media educators and advisers of student publications, [...]

2019-12-17T19:40:32-05:00March 20, 2015|Journalism|
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Game to Reduce Indoor Tanning Use

School of Communication professors Soyoon Kim and Clay Ewing are recipients of the Center for Communication, Culture and Change's 2015 Research Award. Their project, which will focus on using an innovative digital game to reduce the use of indoor tanning among young adults, will assess the game's effectiveness on psychological and behavioral determinants of indoor tanning behavior. According to Professor Kim, “The period of young adulthood is a vulnerable one, and using indoor tanning facilities without realizing or downplaying its risk is one of many other consequential unhealthy choices that our target audience can [...]

2019-12-17T19:40:48-05:00March 13, 2015|Communication Studies, Interactive Media|
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UM School of Communication Students Win 14 ADDYs

Mailers, apps and marketing campaigns characterized by their innovation led to School of Communication students taking home six gold and eight silver local ADDY awards. Students used skills learned in the classroom to take on corporate clients by creating campaigns for Mary Kay, Maker’s Mark and Johnnie Walker. They also tackled global and social problems, ingeniously addressing the issues of cyber bullying, Ebola and childhood obesity. Winning a gold or silver local ADDY award is the first of three steps to the national Student American Advertising Awards Competition. “The ADDYs [...]

2019-12-17T19:41:04-05:00March 10, 2015|Advertising, Motion Pictures, Public Relations|
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And The Award Goes To…

By Lizzie Wilcox Two high school outcasts stumble across a cannibalistic alien and find themselves caught up in a big government conspiracy. No, this is not breaking news; it is Megan Rico’s screenplay that won her the Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting. The Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship is awarded to an undergraduate student who plans to pursue a career in screenwriting. The Writers Guild of America, East Foundation chooses the recipient from a number of universities and colleges. The winner is provided with $10,000 and a mentor to write [...]

2019-12-17T19:41:30-05:00March 4, 2015|Motion Pictures|
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Professor Don Stacks Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Don Stacks, a professor of public relations and a leader in public relations research and education, received the 2014 PRIDE Contribution to Public Relations Education Award from the National Communication Association’s Public Relations Division last week. He was nominated for the lifetime achievement award by five of his doctoral students. As they wrote in their nomination letter, “Few have done more to advance research as a major tenant of public relations education than Dr. Stacks. His Primer of Public Relations Research text, now in its 2nd edition, is considered the [...]

2019-12-17T19:41:44-05:00December 8, 2014|Public Relations|
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UM Debate Team Wins Georgia State National Debate Tournament

The University of Miami Debate Team began its year as we did last year, by winning the Novice Division Championship of the Intercollegiate Debate Tournament at Georgia State University, held September 20-22 in Atlanta.  UM entered four two-person teams in the policy debate tournament, held under the auspices of the American Debate Association, the Cross Examination Debate Association, and the National Debate Tournament.  Competition was divided into Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Novice Divisions based on experience of the debaters.  UM’s squad entered a novice team, two JV teams, and an [...]

2019-12-17T19:42:11-05:00September 23, 2014|Communication Studies|
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Interactive Media’s ‘Zoo Rush’ Wins Good Gaming Award for Raising Sickle Cell Awareness

By Nancy Molina, Graduate Student Collaborating with the Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences, student game developers in the School of Communication have created Zoo Rush, an award-winning adventure game that aims to increase awareness about sickle cell disease and reduce the stigma often associated with the painful inherited blood disorder that slows blood flow. Representing the UM team, Zoo Rush developers Ebtissam “Ebby” Wahman and Fan “Franklin” Zhang brought the Silver Award in the Games for Good category back from the 2014 International Serious Play Awards [...]

2019-12-17T19:42:28-05:00August 11, 2014|Interactive Media|
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Stacks Receives Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service

Throughout his career, Professor of Strategic Communication Don Stacks has been applying research to the problems professional communicators face. “Often people go to other disciplines when they have a problem, but they’re actually communications problems,” Stacks said. “My focus has been to take the academic and put it into the profession in agreeable jargon that everyone can understand and use.” The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication has now honored Stacks for his efforts with its Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service. The award recognizes an AEJMC [...]

2019-12-17T19:42:44-05:00July 31, 2014|Public Relations|
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University of Miami Wins National Student Advertising District 4 Competition

For the third year in a row, the University of Miami School of Communication’s National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) team – the Miami Collective -- won first place at this year’s American Advertising Federation’s National Student Advertising District Competition.  The UM team now heads to Phoenix, Ariz., June 5-8, to compete nationally against 18 other district-winning schools. This is the third consecutive year UM has defeated competitive schools such as Florida State University, the University of South Florida, and Ringling College. In 2011, UM took home the national championship after advancing [...]

2019-12-17T19:51:48-05:00June 23, 2014|Advertising|
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