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April 2021
FROM THE DEAN:
April at CI brings a full slate of events for our alumni and friends to connect with the College. From the ISC alumni symposium (April 7) to our student awards celebration (April 8) to One Day for UK and the annual Joe Creason Lecture (both April 21), everyone can find a way to engage with us this month.
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UPCOMING ALUMNI EVENTS:
ISC Alumni Symposium, April 7
The Department of Integrated Strategic Communication’s Alumni Symposium is set for 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 7. Awesome ISC Careers and How to Get Them features Tessie Bertrams of Gravity Diagnostics; United States Air Force 1st Lt. Savanah F.S. Bray; Sheridan Broady, Social Marketing Coordinator at Fenty Beauty and Fenty Skin; Glenn Goodman, Executive Creative Director at The Power Agency; Elena Griffo, a Nashville-based Social Media Account Supervisor at GS&F; ADDY award-winning graphic designer Claire Monkman of Zipie; Chelsea St. Clair, Senior Creative Strategist at hi5 agency; and Ronnie Dickerson Stewart, Zoom’s Diversity Equity & Inclusion Marketplace & Community Lead.
Read more about this year’s Alumni Symposium panelists at ISC’s web page where a Zoom event link will go live on April 7. Follow Alumni Symposium news at the Facebook event page.
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2020-2021 CI Student Awards, April 8
Join the CI faculty and staff via Zoom at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 8 as we celebrate our scholarship and award winners across the College! For more information, click here.
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2020-2021 Joe Creason Lecture, April 21
Renowned journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, political journalism’s “first couple,” are scheduled to deliver the Joe Creason Lecture, at 6 p.m. ET on Wednesday, April 21 via Zoom. Read the full story here. More info. and the Zoom link here.
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One Day for UK, April 21
On April 21, CI will again be participating in One Day for UK, a one-day online day of giving. Our supported fund this year will provide scholarships to students to cover living, travel and other expenses associated with their internship and allow students to pursue the best internships, regardless of their financial situation.
CI Alumna Diane Massie has generously offered to be our matching gift donor, matching gifts up to $15,000. Alumnus Craig Kurz has also offered to match an additional $5,000 to help our internship initiative. We are very appreciative of the generosity of our alumni and are excited about what this will mean for our students.
Stay tuned for more details about how you can help CI win social media challenges and earn additional funds for our students!
How you can help:
BBNfluencers
We are looking for BBNfluencers (social media ambassadors) to help promote One Day for UK on your personal social accounts. If any of you would like to sign up as a BBNfluencer, please use the following link: BBNfluencer Registration.
Support the CI Internship Initiative
If you would like to support the CI Internship Initiative, you can do so here. You can also support any fund within the College of Communication and Information on April 21 and it will count toward our College’s goals.
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT:
We are blasting into April with a new alum to spotlight!
Meet John Ramsey, a 1995 Media Arts & Studies (formerly Telecommunications) graduate who is currently part of the team returning humans to the moon at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Read John’s full bio here.
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CI ALUMNI NEWS AND UPDATES:
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Blair (Helwig) Spitzer (JOU, 2013) recently earned two Sports Emmy® Awards for her work as an associate director at CBS News/CBS Sports.
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The Lewis Honors College caught up with Honors and CI alumnus Carla Curtsinger (TEL/MAS, 1985) for an update.
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Alex Otte (JOU, 2018) is now the youngest president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Full story here.
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The Kentucky Kernel photo staff brought home top honors at the recent Kentucky News Photographers Association meeting. Full story here.
Congratulations to Christina Walker, a first-year doctoral student in our graduate program in communication, on being named the 2021 Sarah Bennett Holmes Staff Award winner.
CI students Rana Mitchell, Samantha Valentino, Gillian Stawiszynski and Neha Yousuf launched a student podcast called “Bowman’s Friends” to connect and inform students of issues, important deadlines and ways to get involved on campus. Read more here.
Congratulations to the ISC students who were recognized at Ad Club Lexington’s ADDY Awards. Read more here.
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CI FACULTY/STAFF UPDATES:
Congratulations to our published authors in the month of February: Kelly McAninch (assistant professor, COM), Jenn Scarduzio (assistant professor, COM), Aurora Occa (assistant professor, COM), William Howe (assistant professor, COM), Rong Wang (assistant professor, COM), Montina Jiang (assistant professor, ISC), Diane Francis (assistant professor, COM), Maria Cahill (associate professor, SIS), Luke LeFebvre (assistant professor, SIS) and Nancy Harrington (professor, COM and associate dean for research).
Montina Jiang (assistant professor, ISC), along with four faculty members from four other universities, won a $1,500 award from the Center for Positive Marketing and the ANA Educational Foundation for their proposal “Targeting Through Taboo: Understanding Moralistic Tensions in Positive Marketing,” which they delivered at the 2021 Conference for Positive Marketing.
Sean Burns (associate professor, SIS) was invited to give a talk to the Knowledge Management (KM) SIG of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). A description of the talk, The Tacit Knowledge Dilemma in Open Science, is available here.
The "Removing Barriers to Graduation for Underrepresented Minority Students" proposal by Brandi Frisby (associate professor, SIS/interim associate dean of undergraduate affairs) was funded by UK's Women in Philanthropy committee. Read more here.
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David Stephenson (assistant professor, JAM) is preparing students to take the FAA Part 107 commercial drone license exam. Students will learn how to fly drones, as well as photograph, film and report with drones.
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ADDITIONAL NEWS:
To keep you plugged into all that is happening in the College of Communication, we are happy to share other newsletters that go to our different audiences throughout CI.
March 2021 CI Connection Undergraduate Student Newsletter
March 2021 CI Connection Graduate Student Newsletter
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