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  • Noor Ghazal Aswad Wins NCA’s Emerging Scholar Award 

    Noor Ghazal Aswad Wins NCA’s Emerging Scholar Award 

    Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad, an assistant professor in the Communication Studies department, received the NCA Public Address Division’s Emerging Scholar award.

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  • WVUA 23 Director Wins the American Advertising Federation’s Governor’s Award 

    WVUA 23 Director Wins the American Advertising Federation’s Governor’s Award 

    Amy Martin, director of creative services and programming for WVUA 23, received the Governor’s Award during the AAF District 7 Leadership Conference on August 24.  

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  • C&IS Associate Professors Produce Gene Stallings Documentary 

    C&IS Associate Professors Produce Gene Stallings Documentary 

    Associate professors Chandra Clark and Michael Bruce have produced “Do Right: the Stallings Standard”, a documentary following the story of Coach Gene Stallings. The documentary premiered on September 26. 

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  • SLIS Professor Wins Gold Award for Poetry 

    SLIS Professor Wins Gold Award for Poetry 

    SLIS professor Jeff Weddle has won the FAPA 2024 Gold President’s Book Award for Poetry for his book, Driving the Lost Highway.

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  • Over 30 Faculty and Doctoral Students Attend AEJMC Conference

    Over 30 Faculty and Doctoral Students Attend AEJMC Conference

    Faculty members from A+PR and JCM, along with doctoral students, traveled to Philadelphia to participate in the 107th AEJMC Conference.

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  • Aspiring Journalist Makes Waves at UA, ‘Extra’ TV Show

    Aspiring Journalist Makes Waves at UA, ‘Extra’ TV Show

    JCM master’s student Miykael Stith interned at the popular syndicated celebrity and entertainment TV show “Extra” in Los Angeles this summer. 

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  • UA Freshmen win Telly Award for Best Student Film 

    UA Freshmen win Telly Award for Best Student Film 

    Chris Chaei Washington and Alexz Adriyel have won a Gold People’s Telly for Best Student Film for their short film, “ONLY ONE NIGHT THO.”

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  • C&IS honors faculty and staff at awards luncheon

    C&IS honors faculty and staff at awards luncheon

    The 2024 C&IS Faculty and Staff Awards Luncheon occurred Monday, May 6, at the Hotel Capstone. This yearly event honors members of the C&IS community who go above and beyond in their work within the college, as well as those promoted into the next phase of their tenure or contract. The people who were honored…

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  • Journalism Professor Receives Award for Outstanding Public Service

    Journalism Professor Receives Award for Outstanding Public Service

    Chris Roberts, Ph.D., won the Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The award honors his work with the AEJMC election committee and the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) ethics committee.   He is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media…

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