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C&J Dept. News Briefs
C&J student recognized with UNM award
Florencio Olguin,
a double major in mass communication (public relations concentration) and political science,
has received a University of New Mexico Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement
Program & Research Opportunity Program award.
This prestigious award is granted to scholars with superior academic
achievement and who have shown excellence in other aspects throughout their pursuits
of higher education. These programs seek to produce scholars and researchers from traditionally
underrepresented ethnic groups, first generation or low income minorities who want to
pursue doctoral degrees.
C&J Health Comm. Ph.D. student accepts UNM position
Lorenda Belone, the
first graduate of the University of New Mexico's Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center Doctoral
Fellowship program, has accepted a tenure-track position in the UNM College of Education's
Health Education Program.
Belone, Navajo from the reservation community of Mexican Spring, N.M.,
earned her Ph.D. in health communication in 2010 and is currently a research scientist
with the Center for Participatory Research in the Dept. of Family and Community Medicine.
Read a UNM Today
story
from 2008 on Belone.
Papers from faculty & grad students recognized nationally
Tamar Ginossar
and Sara Nelson received a Top Four Paper Award (ranked #3) by the Health Communication
Interest Group of WSCA for the paper: "When the Community Speaks: Latina Immigrant Women
Leading Community-Based Efforts to Bridge the Health and Digital Divides."
Ph.D. candidate Brandi Lawless and Professor Mary Jane Collier
were chosen to present a top paper in the NCA's International and Intercultural Communication
division. Their paper is titled "Understanding a 'culture' of poverty: Subjectivity and
social justice in poverty training materials."
Una Medina co-authored one of the top 2 papers at the International Systems
Dynamics Conference, August 2010. The paper, titled "Comparing discrete simulation and system
dynamics: Modeling an anti-insurgency influence operation," used the framework of entertainment
education, based on the work of Everett Rogers, our late Distinguished Professor in the C&J Department.
Dr. Milstein receives Fulbright Award
Dr. Tema Milstein
has received a Fulbright Award for 2012. During UNM's spring semester, Dr. Milstein will
examine the challenges, successes and possibilities of sustainable ecotourism practices in
New Zealand.
Milstein said, "New Zealand's status as a global ecotourism destination makes it an essential
site in which to study the seeming disconnect between nature tourism experiences and resultant
increased ecological understanding."
Her study will focus on cetacean ecotourism and will use a culture and communication lens to
seek clearer understandings of existing bridges and barriers between ecotourism and ecological
sustainability, and to illustrate restorative ways forward.
UNM journalism alumnus nominated for Emmy
UNM journalism alumnus (2007)
Mark Kachelmeier (B.A. journalism, 2007) has been nominated for an Emmy in the 2011 Heartland Emmy Competition.
The nomination is for Photojournalist/editor in the category of Community Service in a
medium-size market. The station is KRDO news Channel 13 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The story is titled "Catching predators," and it was a week-long series where
five convicted sex offenders were featured. These men were hiding from the law and KRDO
worked with viewer tips that helped lead to the capture two of the offenders.
You can find the nomination list on category 30, page 30 on the link below:
www.emmyawards.tv
(click "Am I nominated?!" to download the PDF-format list)
Student scholarships and honors for 2011
Several
C&J undergraduate students have received scholarships and paid
internships in 2011. Graduate students also won major teaching awards.
2011 C&J departmental scholarships went to:
Dowler Scholarship, Jasmine Simon and Trevor Schmitt; John
J. Aragon Scholarship, Florencio Olguin and Jose Zamora; Jim
Crow Memorial Scholarship, Suzanna McElwain; W.A. Keleher
Memorial Scholarship, Jordan Unverzagt; Albuquerque Press
Club Scholarship, Adam Camp; Jeanette King Memorial Scholarship,
Ashley McElroy ; New Mexico Public Relations Society Scholarship,
Susan Parras; Hunsley-Florence Scholarship, Anna Lee Nowlin;
Kelly Richmond Scholarship, Chelsea Erven; and the Herrick
Pueblo Scholarship, no applicants.
In addition, C&J undergraduate student Trevor
Schmitt won the Top Undergraduate Paper Award at the Rocky Mountain
Communication Association Conference in April 2011with his paper,
"Re-Appropriation and Whiteness in America."
UNM honors outstanding teachers Milstein & Luna-Lucero
C&J faculty member Dr. Tema Milstein was named UNM's
"Outstanding New Teacher of the Year" at the annual Teaching
Awards Ceremony for 2011. Her award was presented by President David
J. Schmidley. Milstein's teaching and research interests are in culture
and communication, critical cultural inquiry, and environmental communication.
Myra Luna-Lucero (pictured left), a C&J graduate
alum, was given UNM's highest honor for adjunct faculty at the same ceremony. She was awarded
the 2011"Outstanding Lecturer or Affiliated Faculty of the Year"
award. Luna-Lucero teaches public speaking, interpersonal communication, interviewing,
and organizational communication. She has worked in fundraising, special event planning,
marketing, and public relations.
ICCC awards grant to C&J breast cancer researchers
The
newly formed Institute of Communication, Culture & Change recently
awarded Dr. Patricia Covarrubias (pictured left), Dr. Elba Saavedra, Dani Jones-Kvam,
and LaRae Tronstad a grant for their research project titled: "Comadre
A Comadre Peer Mentors: Public Communication and Advocacy Skills for
Breast Cancer Survivors." The team represents a collaboration
between the UNM COE-HESS Comadre a Comadre Program, a community-based
intervention for Hispanic/Latina women on breast health and breast
cancer, and C&J faculty and graduate students. This project aims
to conduct assessment research, followed by design and implementation
of a training program, to enhance the confidence and self-esteem of
the Comadre Peer Mentors, community women who are breast cancer survivors.
The team’s activities will occur during the coming academic
year and include a series of workshops focused on public speaking,
advocacy and interpersonal skill building.
Winners named in the 2011 Mercer Speech Tournament
The
2011 Joe and Steve Mercer Memorial Scholarship Speech Tournament,
sponsored by C&J and open to all UNM students, crowned several
scholarship winners April 29. The scholarship was endowed by JoAnn
Mercer in memory of her son and husband who were active in collegiate
debate as students. The first place scholarship worth $1,250 went
to Richelle Gilsdorf, who is majoring in English. The second place
award of $1,000 went to Jose Sanchez, majoring in economics. The third
place winner for a $750 scholarship was psychology/history major Christina
Foster. The remaining three finalists, Desiree Quinones-Soria (biology/Spanish/communication),
Andrew Kasik (communication), and Chris Thompson (communication) each
received a $250 scholarship.
C&J hosts Communication, Culture & Change conference
A conference titled "Connecting Communities & Cultures"
was held April 10 at Los Poblanos Cultural Center in Albuquerque hosted
by the Communication & Journalism Department. The conference launched
the Institute for Culture, Communication and Change at UNM. Sessions
were held on Engaging Communities in New Mexico to Address Health
Outcomes and Disparities; Making Connections: New Directions in Community
Journalism; A Nation Torn Apart: Negotiating Issues of Equity and
Inclusion in a World Centered on My Oppression, Your Oppression, and
Our Community; Immigration and the Borderlands: Moving Towards Change;
Emergent Scholarship: Linking Academic Specialists with Community-Based
Oral History Projects; and on Performance Methodologies: Artistic
Stories of Culture and Community. A pdf program of all conference
sessions, speakers and activities can be downloaded here.
Graduate students earn 2011 awards
The annual graduate student awards recognize the graduate
students who best exemplify excellence in research, teaching and service.
The 2011 award winners are: Outstanding Master's Student Award, tie
between (Angelina) Qingjing Xu and Carolina
Ramos; Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, to Brandi
Lawless; Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, to
Cia Hell; Jean Civikly-Powell Award for Outstanding
New Teaching Assistant, Lingjing Bao; Hank Trewhitt
Departmental Service Award, Jelena Petrovic; Part-Time
Instructor of the Year Award, Myra Luna-Lucero; Everett
Rogers Graduate Research Scholar Award, (Ph.D.) to Anjana
Mudambi, Jessica Nodulman, Tatjana Rosev, Angela Putnam,
and Carmen Lowery, and (M.A.) to Marleah
Dean.
Post-doctoral researcher joins C&J and teaches indigenous media class
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, has
joined C&J as a post-doctoral fellow through the Robert Wood Johnson
Center for Health Policy and the College of Arts and Sciences, where
she is an assistant research professor in the Interdisciplinary Film
and Digital Media program. She taught a C&J graduate-level class
in spring 2011 on indigenous representation in the media. Her work
focuses on participatory action research with indigenous communities
for social justice and improved health outcomes through the use of
documentary film, photography and social media. She has a Ph.D. in
public health from UC-Berkley and attended Stanford University's film
school and the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking. Her current
documentary film, "Forty
Winters," received the California Council for the Humanities
Documentary Film Prize.
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