School
of C Highlights
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| Yanick Rice Lamb, NABJ 2015 |
NABJ Salute to Excellence
Yanick Rice Lamb won a NABJ Salute to Excellence award for work on “Dealing with Dementia: Caring for My Mother,” part of the FierceforBlackWomen.com website. Yanick is chair of the Media, Journalism and Film (MJFC) department.
Yanick Rice Lamb won a NABJ Salute to Excellence award for work on “Dealing with Dementia: Caring for My Mother,” part of the FierceforBlackWomen.com website. Yanick is chair of the Media, Journalism and Film (MJFC) department.
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SOC at NABJ 2015The School of Communications alumni reception offered an opportunity to network and reconnect during the NABJ's 40th Annual Convention and Career Fair in Minneapolis. We extend a sincere thank you to Lori Billingsley, SOC alumna and Board of Visitors member for Coca-Cola sponsoring the reception in Minneapolis.
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SOC alum receives award at AEJMCGeorge
Daniels, a SOC alumnus and associate professor and
assistant dean at the University of Alabama, received the Scholastic Journalism
Division’s “Robert P. Knight Multicultural Award” at the Annual Diversity and
Journalism Education Luncheon at the AEJMC convention in San Francisco. Dr. Alice Tait, a professor at Central Michigan University, received the “2015 Lionel C. Barrow, Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education.” The late Dr. Barrow is a former professor and dean of SOC.
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| Sonja Williams and Carolyn Stroman, AEJMC 2015 |
Professor Sonja
Williams new book, Word Warrior Richard Durham, Radio and Freedom (2015) published by the University of Illinois Press was on display at the AEJMC conference in San Francisco. Other SOC faculty books on display included Joanna Jenkins’ The Convergence Crisis: An Impending Paradigm Shift in Advertising by Peter Lang Publishing, and Carolyn Byerly’s The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism (2013), published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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| Indira Somani, far left, with panel members at AEJMC 2015 |
Blackstart Film Festival winners
SOC congratulates -- Ciara Allen and Be Steadwell -- winners at the 2015 Blackstar Film Festival, a four-day annual celebration of film held in Philadelphia.
*Best Experimental Short: Vow of Silience/Steadwell
*Audience Award, Best Narrative Short: Black and Blue/Allen
Congratulations on Ph.D. completion
Doctoral students receiving their Ph.Ds this year – Drs. Stella-Monica Mpande, Chizoma Nosiri, Tiphane' Turpin, and Cherie Ward – in the Communications Culture and Media Studies (CCMS) doctoral program. They join other graduates this year in CCMS who continue the tradition of Howard being a top producer of African Americans with Ph.Ds.
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Doctoral students receiving their Ph.Ds this year – Drs. Stella-Monica Mpande, Chizoma Nosiri, Tiphane' Turpin, and Cherie Ward – in the Communications Culture and Media Studies (CCMS) doctoral program. They join other graduates this year in CCMS who continue the tradition of Howard being a top producer of African Americans with Ph.Ds.
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| SOURCE: Aida Muluneh photo from Smithsonian website |
SOC Alumna featured at Smithsonian
SOC alumna and artist Aida Muluneh's work is featured in the Smithsonian National Museum of
African Art exhibit: The Divine Comedy:
Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists. A
photo of Aida is used to feature the exhibit, for more information see:
http://africa.si.edu/2015/04/new-exhibit-the-divine-comedy-heaven-purgatory-and-hell-revisited-by-contemporary-african-artists/
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