Wishing you peace, joy and happiness this holiday season. Happy Holidays from the Cathy Hughes School of Communications.
from Dean Gracie Lawson-Borders,
Faculty, Staff and Students
End of year donations can be made by credit card to:
https://giving.howard.edu/givenow "Cathy
Hughes School of Communications Annual Fund" or by check to
"Howard University/School of Communications" (dated by 12/31/2018).
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End of the Year Roundup
2019
PEN America Literary Awards - Longlist Announcement
Natalie
Hopkinson, assistant professor, whose book A Mouth is Always Muzzled, (The New
Press) is on the Longlist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art
of the Essay. The award is for a book of essays published that exemplifies the
dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature, according to the release
on the Longlist. Recent past winners include Ursula K. Le Guin, Angela Morales,
and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Finalists will be selected in January and
the award will be announced in February.
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Museum
of Black Civilisations in Senegal
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| Museum of Black Civilisations opened Dec. 6, 2018. |
Cynthia
Morton, associate professor, MFA graduate film program,
will start the new year with her Great Migration Project When We Came Up Here featured in a year-long screening at the newly
opened Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar, Senegal. View at:
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Capitol
Hill Student Advocacy Day
Graduate students in the
Communication
Sciences and
Disorders department participated in ASHA Student Advocacy Day. The annual
event in October is a time in which students from programs in the U.S. go to Capitol Hill to promote issues that impact them as students as well as
professionals in the field of speech-language pathology and audiology, Martine Elie, clinical director, led the group from Howard. Throughout the day our students promoted the well-being of the professions in
communication sciences and disorders as well as the clients that they serve. View at:
