August 23, 2024 This fall, seven faculty in the College of Media have been promoted, two faculty have taken on new leadership roles, and three new faculty have been hired. In the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, promotions include Chang-Dae Ham to full professor, Leona Su to associate professor with indefinite tenure, and Dionne Clifton and Marisa Peacock to senior lecturers. Two […]
July 3, 2024 Faculty, graduate students, and recent alumni from the College of Media co-presented 16 topics of research at the 74th annual International Communication Association Conference—the largest academic conference for communication scholars—on June 20-24, 2024, in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The ICA aims to advance the scholarly study of human communication by encouraging and facilitating excellence in academic research […]
May 16, 2024 For sharing its passion with film lovers worldwide for 25 years, and making the greater Champaign-Urbana area a better place to live, work, and visit, Ebertfest was selected as one of five winners of the 2024 Tourism Impact Award from Experience Champaign-Urbana. The Experience Champaign-Urbana Foundation presented the awards at the 11th […]
May 14, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood When Sarah Min (BS ’93, journalism) was appointed to President Joe Biden’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in 2022, she knew her background in journalism would prove useful in government policy and nonprofit advocacy work. “For people who practice journalism, it’s a job requirement to […]
May 14, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood A multimedia piece about an avalanche in Washington published by the New York Times in 2012, which included video, interactive graphics, and animated simulations, changed the way newsrooms presented storytelling. It also inspired Media alum and Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Eli Murray (BS ’15, journalism) to think about a career as a […]
May 8, 2024 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 Fall 2023 semester. Only those instructors who distributed ICES forms at least once during this time […]
May 7, 2024 Show off your University of Illinois College of Media pride with branded apparel! From May 7 through May 24, a College of Media apparel shop will be open with items to purchase including branded quarter-zip pullovers, polo shirts, sweatshirts, ball caps, and T-shirts. The College of Media, the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, and the […]
May 6, 2024 Two faculty members in the College of Media were named recipients of the 2024-25 Chancellor’s Call to Action Research Program to address system bias and social injustice through cross-disciplinary research. This year, the program focuses on areas that span domestic, international, and transnational spaces. Victor Font, a lecturer in the Department of […]
April 24, 2024 Update June 4, 2024: Congratulations to the students who presented “Exploring Period Poverty in Sierra Leone” (pictured below) for receiving an award for Outstanding Exhibit at the Undergraduate Research Symposium from the Office of Undergraduate Research! Learn more about their trip to Sierra Leone. Students from the College of Media are participating in the annual […]
April 10, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood When Andrea Campos graduated from Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in advertising, she had no idea she’d be returning 12 years later as the alumni speaker at the 2024 College of Media Convocation ceremony. But as an artist and creative entrepreneur whose recent career accomplishments include illustrating a New […]