The Hearst Foundation announced the winners in the Photojournalism Features and News Competition of the 2020-2021 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. The winners in first photo competition of the year were selected from 117 entries submitted from 65 universities nationwide and include Michael Clubb, who placed ninth nationally and the University of Kentucky who tied for third overall. Full story here.
Congratulations to Sylina Adkins, Holly Howard, and Angela Mullins (LIS) who were awarded the Library Science Tuition Scholarship for the Spring 2021 semester on behalf of the Kentucky State Board for the Certification of Librarians.
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Jaleyah Northington (JOU) is doing an internship over winter intersession with a new site, the Soapbox Diaries. Technically, she’s a production intern, but she’s had the opportunity to post a podcast episode of her own. The Soapbox Diaries is available on Apple Podcasts in the Society & Culture section. The podcast features a conversation with Melanie Kirkwood-Marshall, a literacy educator and doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They discuss the impact of multi-cultural children’s literature. Click here to listen.
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CI FACULTY UPDATES:
Sherali Zeadally, associate professor in the School of Information Science, was named by Web of Science as one of the world’s most highly cited researchers. Full story here.
Shannon Oltmann, associate professor in the School of Information Science, will deliver the Commonwealth Ethics Lecture at Bellarmine University on January 19, 2021.
William Howe, assistant professor in the Department of Communication, presented “Veteran Contempt for Civilian Communication: Hearing, Understanding, and Evaluating Communicative Reintegration Difficulties” to researchers and practitioners of the Department of Veteran Affairs’ War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC).
Al Cross, professor in the School or Journalism and Media and director of the Institute for Rural Journalism & Community Issues had an important story published in Publishers’ Auxiliary, the only national publication serving America’s community newspapers: “Go beyond the data and the science of COVID-19, write the stories of people affected.” Publisher-Auxiliary_88604 (windows.net)
Buck Ryan, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Media, had his commentary on the importance of farmers appeared across seven KY newspapers.
Rong Wang, assistant professor in the Department of Communication, was invited to give a talk hosted by the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University in December. Rong also has joined the editorial board of Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, a peer-reviewed biannual journal, as an associate editor.
Congratulations to our faculty who published work in November and December: Tae Hyun Baek, Sean Burns, Deborah Chung, Maria Cahill, Al Cross, Kody Frey, Phil Hutchison, William Howe, Hyun Ju Jeong, Soohyung Joo, Kelly McAninch and Buck Ryan.
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ALUMNI UPDATE:
School of Journalism and Media alumna Alex Otte, the new president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, rang the final closing bell for the New York Stock Exchange at 3:59 p.m. on Thursday, December 31.
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We can’t wait to show you how our Integrated Strategic Communication students think we should brand our College to our alumni and to prospective students! And, the students (and College leaders) want to hear your feedback.
TONIGHT, you’ll get a chance to see live presentations from two teams of students in Associate Professor Adriane Grumbein’s ISC 431 Advertising Creative Strategy and Execution II class. Last semester, the students took on the College of Communication and Information as a real-world client. They took the ideas from our 2021-2026 Strategic Plan and turned them into a campaign to better connect with alumni and better attract students to the College.
Link: http://ukci.me/jan14happyhour
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Be prepared to be in awe of the work the KRNL Lifestyle + Fashion student writers, editors and photographers put out this fall!
Join us on January 28 as KRNL staffers present the page-turning Fall 2020 issue of KRNL and answer your questions about their sure-to-be-award-winning work.
Please RSVP to cidean@uky.edu for the Zoom link.
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