AAF selects four advertising students for diversity, equity, and inclusion program

January 11, 2024 | Faith Lee (Communications Intern) and Kelly Youngblood Updated 2/15/2024 Four seniors in the University of Illinois chapter of the American Advertising Federation were named to the American Advertising Federation’s Most Promising Multicultural Students Class of 2024—an honor given to only 50 students each year throughout the United States. Honorees include advertising majors Aniya […]

Maslowska selected as Center for Advanced Study Associate for 2024-25 academic year

January 11, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood Ewa Maslowska, associate professor of advertising, was selected as a Center for Advanced Study Associate for the 2024-25 academic year, pending Board of Trustees approval.  As a CAS Associate, Maslowska will take time off from teaching in Fall 2024 to focus on her research of fake online reviews. Consumer reviews […]

Chang-Dae Ham to serve as vice president of American Academy of Advertising

January 8, 2024 Chang-Dae Ham, associate professor of advertising with an appointment in the Institute of Communications Research, and associate head of graduate studies in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, was recently elected vice president of the American Academy of Advertising. His term for March 2024 through March 2025 will be effective March 14, […]

2023-2024 Ebert Fellows announced

November 9, 2024 | Vivian La, Communications Intern Three College of Media undergraduate students were chosen for this year’s Roger Ebert Fellows program, named after the late Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and University of Illinois journalism alumnus Roger Ebert. The fellows will work closely with Michael Phillips, film critic at the Chicago Tribune, to hone […]

Ham chosen as second Sandage Scholar in Advertising Research

October 31, 2023 Chang-Dae Ham, associate professor of advertising and associate head of graduate studies, was selected to become the next Charles H. Sandage Scholar in Advertising Research.  Ham was chosen based on his research proposal, “Reflexive Persuasion Game between Human Intelligence (HI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Marketplace: Exploring Consumers’ AI Literacy and […]

Media, FAA faculty’s collaborative film-poem ‘Factories at Sea’ selected for multiple film festivals

October 30, 2023 | Kelly Youngblood An interdisciplinary collaboration between two College of Media and College of Fine & Applied Arts faculty members has led to an award-winning visual poem that’s been selected to be screened at five film festivals worldwide. Victor Font, lecturer of media and cinema studies, and Cristobal Bianchi, assistant professor of studio […]

2023-2024 student award and scholarship recipients

October 11, 2023 Updated May 6, 2024 Congratulations to these College of Media students who received campus and college awards and honors, and scholarships and fellowships that were made possible thanks to our donors. HONORS Bronze Tablet Inscription on the Bronze Tablets in the Main Library recognizes students ranking in the top three percent of their graduating […]

Media faculty and TAs make list of teachers ranked as excellent

September 8, 2023 Congratulations to all of the College of Media faculty and teaching assistants who were ranked as excellent by their students! This list is based on Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) questionnaire forms completed by students during the Spring 2023 semester. Only those instructors who distributed ICES forms at least once during this time […]

Journalism master’s student Herbert DaCosta awarded fellowship to help educate public about climate change

July 10, 2023 | Kelly Youngblood Herbert DaCosta, a graduate student in the journalism master’s degree program, was awarded the 2023-24 Thornton Tomasetti Foundation Technical Literacy Fellowship for his exceptional submittal to help the wider public understand and connect with climate change. DaCosta is a research development manager at the University of Illinois Office of […]

Media faculty, students present at 2023 International Communication Association conference

June 15, 2023 The College of Media was well represented at the 73rd annual International Communication Association conference this summer in Toronto, Canada, with many faculty and graduate students presenting on the theme of “Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication.” The ICA aims to advance the scholarly study of human communication by encouraging and facilitating excellence in […]

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