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C&J Dept. News Archive
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, 2011, 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.
NCA
honors Dr. Karen Foss
Karen
A. Foss (pictured in red at the right), regents professor of communication
at C&J, recently received the Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award
at the 2010 National Communication Association convention held in
San Francisco. The awards recognizes an NCA member who has demonstrated
dedication to excellence, commitment to the profession, concern for
others, vision of what could be, acceptance of diversity, and forthrightness.
Dr. Foss received the award during the convention.
UNM
names C&J faculty member as 'Lecturer of the Year'
Karolyn
Cannata-Winge of C&J is one of only three lecturers that UNM honored
in May 2010 as "Lecturer of the Year." Her citation reads:
"(She) uses her 20 years of professional experience in visual
communication, design, print journalism, advertising and public relations
to give her students real-world examples and a glimpse of what they
will encounter in their careers. She also serves as the department's
faculty internship coordinator and adviser to the American Advertising
Federation's student chapter." The award carries with it the
highest teaching honor among lecturers and recognizes Cannata-Winge's
valuable contributions as a classroom educator at the University.
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Dr.
Glenda Balas
C&J Chair |
C&J
hires five new faculty members in 2010
New
full-time faculty members joining C&J for the fall 2010 semester
are Glenda R. Balas, Stephen Littlejohn, Karen Schmidt, Shana Heinricy,
and Todd Winge.
Dr. Balas
is rejoining the C&J faculty after spending two years as the chair
of the Mass Communication Department at Sam Houston State University.
She taught at C&J from 2001 to 2007. She is chair of the department
at the rank of associate professor. Dr. Littlejohn
has taught courses in communication at C&J for several years and
now joins the faculty as a three-quarters-time adjunct professor.
Dr. Schmidt
comes to C&J as a Lecturer III with more than 20 years of college-level
teaching experience. Shana Heinricy
joins the faculty as a lecturer II in communication after three years
teaching at Xavier University in Louisiana. Todd Winge,
a multimedia journalism specialist who has worked for daily newspapers
and taught at the University of Missouri, joins the faculty as a lecturer
II in journalism.
In addition, Gregoria A. Cavazos
has joined the staff as C&J student adviser. She has been working
in higher education in administration and academic advising since
2002.
2010
faculty promotion
Dr. Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik,
who teaches communication courses at C&J, was promoted in the
summer of 2010 from assistant professor to associate professor.
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| C&J
journalism major Andrew Beale speaks to Honduran journalism students
in Tegucigalpa. |
C&J
students travel to Honduras
UNM students participating in the Cross-Border
Issues Group studies traveled to Honduras in the summer of 2010
to continue studies on immigration. They also engaged in human rights
training in Mexico and Guatemala. C&J associate professor Richard
Schaefer and professor Arturo López Durán of Universidad
Fray Luca Paccioli in Mexico led the students. C&J students Andrew
Beale, Rueben Gonzales, Tanru Gudz and Shana Juarez accompanied Mexican
students Paola López Menses and Anya Villanueva Forte. They
battled sickness, overnight buses and difficult working conditions
to see and document the migration process. More details are available
here.
C&J
undergraduates earn 2010 scholarships and paid internships
Several
C&J undergraduate students have received scholarships and paid
internships in 2010. Print student Abigail Ramirez Ortiz received
the Albuquerque Journal internship for the summer of 2010. She and
Andrea Salazar each received Journal scholarships for 2010-11.
2010 C&J departmental scholarships went to:
Starkey Scholarship, Cleophus Muneri, Carmen Lowry, Willow J.
Anderson, and Consolata Mutua; Dowler Scholarship, Ashley
Salazar and Jessica Tonjes; John J. Aragon Scholarship, Rita
Gutierrez, Rachel Lucero, and Jose Zamora; Jim Crow Memorial Scholarship,
Shawn Abeita; W.A. Keleher Memorial Scholarship, Ana Nowlin
and Natalie Trujillo; Albuquerque Press Club Scholarship,
Justine Apodaca and Shana Terrill; Jeanette King Memorial Scholarship,
Vanessa Sanchez; New Mexico Public Relations Society Scholarship,
Megan Trevino; Hunsley-Florence Scholarship, Tamara Farmer;
Kelly Richmond Scholarship, Abigail R. Ortiz and Nicole Raz;
and the Herrick Pueblo Scholarship, Brandon Quam.

Students win honors in national advertising competition
A UNM team dominated by C&J students placed fourth in their district
in their first year of competition at the National Student Advertising
Competition. They had worked together in a special two-semester class
headed by C&J lecturer Karolyn Cannata-Winge. The 24 team members
came from advertising, public relations, print, broadcast, media arts
and fine arts.
The students formed a student marketing
agency, Lobo Pack. They developed an advertising and public relations
plan for a corporate sponsor and presented their integrated communications
campaign to a panel of judges in April 2010. The competition, sponsored
by the American Advertising Federation, is broken into districts,
and the UNM team placed fourth out of nine colleges and universities
in their district, scoring ahead of three teams that placed last year.
Team members from the Fall 2009 and
Spring 2010 classes were Sara Bachis, Keith Greer, Lindsay Noyes,
Mackenzie Mobley, Valerie Baca, Seville Madrid, Kate McMartin, J.V.
Zamora, Drew Lara, Davida Hollis, Katy Melloy, Bryan Gyger, Paul Spella,
Tess Goering, Kyle Rudeen, Blake Walker, Kayla Donner, Julie Kare,
Felicia Lopez, Jeremy Frankel, Colin Bridge, Lindsey Powell, Michael
Demko and Sean Gardner.
Winners
named in the 2010 Mercer Speech Tournament
The
Joe and Steve Mercer Memorial Scholarship Speech Tournament, sponsored
by C&J and open to all UNM students, crowned several scholarship
winners April 9. 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 $1,000 went to Tyler Albright, who
is majoring in university studies. The second place award of $750
went to Van Snow, majoring in history and philosophy. The third place
winner for a $500 scholarship was biology major Arti Attreya. The
remaining four finalists, Annalisa Babb (communication), Alejandra
Gayton (veterinary science), Shaina Saint-lot (undecided), and Faye
Willis (communication) each received a $250 scholarship. In the photo,
from left: Back row, Shaina Saint-lot, Tyler Albright, Van Snow, Annalisa
Babb; Front row, Arti Attreya, Alejandra Gayton and Faye Willis.
Students participate in radio internship in D.C.
Five UNM students spent the spring semester in Washington, D.C., working
for the Talk Radio News Service (TRNS), an online news service that
provides reports to more than 300 radio stations across the nation.
Antonia Aguilar, Monique Cala, Benny Martinez, Brishel Prichard and
Sofia Sanchez covered politics as print, radio and multimedia journalists.
They trained under the TRNS staff and received housing and travel
support from the New Mexico Broadcasters Association. The faculty
director is C&J associate professor Richard Schaefer. He said
says the C&J, NMBA and TRNS are working on financial details for
next semester, as most UNM students need financial aid to live and
work in Washington.
C&J professor and a graduate student win university awards
A
C&J faculty member and graduate student have both won mentor awards
through UNM's Office Of Graduate Studies. Dr. Karen Foss (at right
in the photo) received the Faculty Mentor Award and Ph.D. candidate
Elizabeth Dickinson (at left) received the Graduate Student Mentor
Award. The awards honor an outstanding faculty member and graduate
student who have provided excellence in mentoring graduate students.
National
Communication Association honors Lutgen-Sandvik
C&J
Assistant Professor Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik won the triple crown of
academic awards at the 2009 conference of the National Communication
Association. She won the top organizational communication conference
paper award, the organizational communication article of the year
award, and the organizational communication book of the year award.
C&J students win PR national honors
The most prestigious national
award for undergraduate public relations students was bestowed in
2009 upon three C&J students. Devon Armijo, Shannon Guess and
Jacqueline Jinzo were awarded the Bernays Cup by Public Relations
Quarterly.
The competition is based on essays submitted
to PRQ. The C&J students' winning paper was titled "Ripped
Straight from the Headlines: Jack the Ripper's Public Relations."
It was published in PRQ.
Armijo, Guess and Jinzo applied existentialist
philosophy to the so-called "Jack the Ripper letters" to
explain the Ripper crimes through systematic sociocultural scrutiny.
This is the third time C&J students have
won the Bernays Cup, the most of any university. Genevieve Sadler-Trainor
received the award in 2005 for her essay, "Visual Methods of
Public Relations Communication." Mary White's study of tobacco
lobbying, titled "Buttman on the 1996 Campaign Trail," won
the 1997 prize.
Wall
hanging for classroom in production
Several C&J faculty members and graduate students are sewing together
colorful squares of cloth of a wall hanging for the bare south wall
of the C&J second floor library and test-taking area. Professor
Karen Foss is coordinating the project. The wall hanging is to help
fill the space exposed by the removal of bookcases.
Gandert
honored by Chicago center
C&J Professor Miguel Gandert has received the Artist-in-Residence
Award from the Center for Race, Politics and Culture at the University
of Chicago. Gandert traveled to Chicago over spring break 2010 and
presented a public lecture at the center. He also taught a seminar.
2009
faculty promotions
Two C&J faculty members were promoted in the summer of 2009 from
assistant professor to associate professor. They are: Dr. Ilia Rodríguez,
who teaches in the print journalism sequence, and Dr. Patricia O.
Covarrubias,
who teaches communication courses.
Grad
student earns honors
Elaine Baumgartel, an M.A.
student, was awarded a first place and shared an honorable mention
in the Associated Press awards for 2009 at KUNM radio. Her first place
award was in the service category for her "Race and Gender"
series.
C&J
undergraduates earn 2009 scholarships and paid internships
Several
C&J undergraduate students have received scholarships and paid
internships in 2009. Maggie Ybarra was awarded a
paid internship for the summer from the Albuquerque Journal, which
also presented a $2,000 scholarship to print student Mario
Trujillo for the 2009-2010 academic year. Photojournalism
student Vanessa J. Sanchez and advertising student
Jennifer N. Vieth received scholarships from New
Mexico Press Women. Alice Loy received the Sarah
Belle Brown Community Service Award for establishing Social Ventures
Partners New Mexico, the state's first social enterprise and investment
organization.
C&J departmental scholarships for
2009 were awarded to: Dowler Scholarship, Vanessa Sanchez;
John J. Aragon Scholarship, Devon Armijo and Ryan
Montano; Jim Crow Memorial Scholarship, Douglas Capitan;
W.A. Keleher Memorial Scholarship, Gary Alderete, Rikki-Lee
Ulibarri and Sean Gardner; Albuquerque Press
Club Scholarship, Carmen Marcello; Jeanette King
Memorial Scholarship, Joseph Trisolini, Tiffini Porter
and Jamie Garcia; New Mexico Public Relations Society
Scholarship, Erica Krause; and the Herrick Pueblo
Scholarship, Tasha Nelson.
C&J
graduate students earn recognition for scholarship, research
Graduate
students continue to receive awards in 2009. Iliana
Rucker was selected by the UNM Alumni Association as the
2009-2010 recipient of the Albuquerque Branch AAUW Graduate Women
Scholarship. At the Rocky Mountain Communication Association, Liesel
Sharabi was awarded Top Graduate Student Paper honors for
“The New Face of Dating: An Application of Social Penetration
and Uncertainty Reduction Theories to Explain Relational Development
Online.” Lorenda
Belone was awarded a dissertation fellowship for 2009-10
from the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Center. Julie Lucero
was named
Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Center doctoral fellow for 2009-2010.
Claudia Anguiano received a two-year fellowship from
the Mellon Foundation to support the completion of her doctoral degree.
Chris Brown received a Social and Behavioral Sciences
Postdoctoral Fellowship from Ohio State University starting in the
fall of 2009.
C&J
graduate student wins teaching award
Courtney
Fletcher, a C&J graduate student studying for her Ph.D. in communication,
received the Gunter Starkey Teaching Award from the College of Arts
& Sciences at UNM for 2008. It is a college-level award given
to only two TAs in the college.
2008
faculty promotion
Dr. Olaf Werder,
who teaches the advertising sequence at C&J, was promoted in the
summer of 2008 from assistant professor to associate professor.
C&J
students participate in class in Mexico
Dr. Richard Schaefer
of the C&J broadcast faculty led a group of UNM students to Mexico
and Guatemala in July 2008 to work with students from Universidad
Fray Luca Paccioli in producing radio reports on immigration. Details
are available here.
Faculty
news notes in 2008
C&J Assistant
Professor Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik has been invited to be one of the
keynote speakers at the 6th International Conference on Workplace
Bullying and Harassment. She is one of only two U.S. scholars invited
to keynote; other speakers hail from Norway, Britain, France and Germany.
The conference will be held in Montreal, Quebec, June 4-7, 2008.
C&J Associate Professor Richard
Schaefer coordinated a visit by broadcast students from Universidad
Fray Luca Paccioli (UFLP) in Central Mexico, who worked on issues
of immigration and local musical culture while visiting UNM in April
2008. The students produced a television program on immigration for
public broadcast Canal Tres in Morelos, Mexico. The students also
produced a radio program on the local music scene for the Spanish
language program, Raices, which aired on KUNM-FM in Albuquerque. The
students and professors, along with Carolyn Gonzales from UNM Communication
and Marketing, spent a week on the Navajo Reservation studying indigenous
culture and traditions.
The program is part of the ongoing “Cross-Border
Issues” exchange between UFLP and the Department of Communication
and Journalism. This June, a small group of UNM students will spend
a month in the Mexican states of Morelos and Chiapas, producing broadcast
reports that convey Mexican perspectives on immigration.
C&J
sponsors its first job and internship fair
First proposed by the C&J
chapter of Society of Professional Journalists, the idea of a job
and internship fair for C&J students drew the support and participation
of other student groups and the administration, culminating in the
first such event for the department on March 4, 2008. More than 200
students attended the fair, which featured exhibits by 25 employers.
C&J
prof's documentary wins two awards
The documentary titled "The Long Road to Decatur" by Asssociate Professor Glenda
Balas won first place for documentary in the 2008 New Mexico Press Women
Competition. The documentary
also won a "Gold Award" for educational video at the International
AVA Awards, sponsored by the Association of Marketing and Communication
Professionals.
C&J
students awarded 2008 scholarships and paid internships
C&J
scholarships awarded in May went to: Mario Trujillo
- Carolyn Hunsley Memorial Scholarship; Ryan Montano
-W.A. Keleher Scholarship; Laura Rasmussen - Albuquerque
Press Club Scholarship; Colin Bridge and Vanessa
Strobbe - Kelly Richmond scholarships; Armijo Devon,
Benny Martinez, Christopher Sanchez and Lorinda Toledo
- John J. Aragon scholarships; Xochitl Campos - Jim
Crow Scholarship; and Douglas Capitan - New Mexico
Public Relations Society of America Scholarship.
Rebecca Warin and Jerra
Gonzales were awarded scholarships from the New Mexico Public
Relations Society of America. One of two statewide scholarships from
the New Mexico Press Women was awarded to Christina Isabel
Lovato, a broadcast major at UNM.
Christopher
Sanchez and Colin Bridge were awarded paid
summer internships at the Albuquerque Journal, and Kate Murphy
received a paid internship in the Washington, D.C., office of Scripps
Howard News Service.
C&J
athletes are honored for academic achievement
The
following C&J students were honored at the UNM Student Athlete
Academic Awards Celebration in April 2008 for maintaining a G.P.A.
of at least 3.2: Lucy Scott (women’s tennis), Dane Hamilton
(baseball), Nicholas Geyer (men’s golf), Michael Graczyk (men’s
soccer), Madison Warren (Spirit Squad), Jessie Junker (Spirit Squad),
Jazmin Lowery (Spirit Squad), Brittney Salas (Spirit Squad), Alexandra
Phelps (women’s golf), Megan Bodenheimer (women’s soccer),
Kate Wyrick (women’s soccer), Whitney Johnson (women’s
track), Vanessa Strobbe (women’s track), Jeanne Fairchild (women’s
volleyball) and Kelsi Phillips (women’s volleyball).
C&J
named 'Best Department'; lecturer also honored
For two years in a row, UNM students named the Department of Communication
and Journalism as the "Best Department" at the university and C&J
Lecturer II Karolyn Cannata Winge as one of three educators named
"Best Teacher at UNM." The honors came in the 2006 and 2007
Lo Mejor polling conducted by the Daily Lobo and published in November
of each year.
In addition, the
UNM Peer Mentoring for Graduates of Color awarded two certificates
of appreciation to the C&J Department in recognition of the department’s
commitment to diversity in graduate and professional education at
UNM in 2008.
Adjunct
professor wins peace prize
Dr.
Stephen Littlejohn, adjunct professor of communication and journalism,
received the UNM Paul Bartlett Peace Prize during an award ceremony
at the UNM Art Museum in January 2008. The prize is awarded to a UNM
student, faculty, staff person, or retiree who has demonstrated notable
achievements in promoting world peace and understanding. Littlejohn
was recognized for his work in mediation.
Student
film project wins regional Emmy
A public interest documentary
and live television program that C&J Department students, staff
and gear helped create won a 2007 regional Emmy award. "Girls:
Challenges/Choices" won a Rocky Mountain Emmy in Phoenix in the
category: Public/Current/Community Affairs Program or Special.
Advertising
students work with the mayor
Several C&J advertising
students teamed with Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez to film
public service announcements for the New Mexico Recycling Coalition.
Details here.
Faculty
news notes in 2007
C&J Assistant
Professor Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik received an award for "The 2007
Outstanding Scholarly Journal Article in Applied Communication."
It was awarded for the following article: "Tracy, S. J., Lutgen-Sandvik,
P., & Alberts, J. K. (2006). Nightmares, demons and slaves: Exploring
the painful metaphors of workplace bullying. Management Communication
Quarterly, 20(2), 148-185. The award came from the Applied Communication
Division of the National Communication Association. This division
focuses on the practical uses of communication research to assess
social issues/needs and solve social problems.
C&J Assistant Professor Patricia
O. Covarrubias was appointed to the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute
(SHRI), which promotes multidisciplinary research on the Latino/Hispanic
populations of the United States and fosters public service regarding
the hispano and mexicano communities of New Mexico.
APHA
honors C&J graduate student
Lissa Knudsen, MPH,
CHES, has been awarded the 2007 Trong D. Nguyen Memorial Award for
Student Leadership by the Student Assembly of the American Public
Health Association. Lissa is a doctoral student at the University
of New Mexico studying communication. Lissa’s advocacy efforts
through the New Mexico Breast Feeding Task Force (NMBFTF) led to the
Southwest region’s first law on breastpump use in the workplace,
providing women with a clean, private space to breast pump at work
and ensuring that their employers provide flexible break times to
accommodate their pumping. The award was presented at the 135th annual
meeting of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C.
2007
new faculty members
Three new full-time faculty members joined the department in Fall
2007. They are Assistant Professor Tema Milstein,
a 2007 Ph.D. recipient from the University of Washington who is teaching
both communication and journalism classes; Assistant Professor Judith
White,
who received her Ph.D. in 2007 from Texas A&M and is teaching
public relations; and Lecturer II Janet Shiver,
owner of The Shiver Group, who is director of C&J's scores of
public speaking classes from departemts across the university. Also
appointed for two years was a visiting assistant professor, John Carr.
C&J
students participate in class in Mexico
Dr. Richard Schaefer
of the C&J faculty led a group of UNM students to Cuernavaca,
Mexico, in July 2007 to work with students from Universidad Fray Luca
Paccioli in producing radio reports on immigration. Details are available
here.
C&J
faculty members are promoted
Three faculty members
— Dr. John Oetzel, Dr. Gill Woodall, and Dr. Glenda Balas —
were promoted in the summer of 2007. Dr. Oetzel, who headed the effort
to have the journalism side accredited in 2008, was promoted from
associate professor to full professor. Dr. Woodall also went from
associate professor to full professor. He divides his time between
the C&J Department and the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse
and Addictions (CASAA), a comprehensive research center focused on
all aspects of addiction science at UNM. Dr. Balas, the associate
chair of the C&J Department in 2006-07, came to UNM after a career
in public television. She was promoted from assistant professor to
associate professor.
C&J
faculty member cited for productivity
Sooyoung Cho identified
the most productive authors and programs in public relations literature
from 1996 to 2003 in a paper at the 2007 ICA conference. She found
that Dr. Dirk Gibson was the 10th most productive PR scholar and that
UNM was the 15th ranked PR program.
Renovated
C&J
building is reopened
The C&J Department
celebrated the grand opening of the $5.81 million renovation of the
Communication and Journalism Building on Aug. 19, 2007. The new building
has 11 classrooms with state-of-the-art instructional technology including
two computer pods. There is Wi-Fi in the building, public use computers,
and office space for 80-plus instructors and four student organizations.
The new resources provide the department an opportunity to reach the
core goals of its strategic plan that include enhancing undergraduate
education and graduation rates, research reputation, diversity, and
community and interdisciplinary relations.
C&J
building renovation completed
After being closed for the 2006-07 academic year for renovation, C&J
staff and faculty moved back into a new, enlarged and improved C&J
building in August 2007. The move began in May and the "Grand
Reopening" was held Aug. 19, the day before fall classes begin.
The e-mail addresses for both staff and faculty can be found on the
directory page. See coverage of the construction
kick-off celebration here.
C&J
graduate student wins teaching awards
Chris
Brown, a Ph.D. candidate in communication, won the department's 2007
teaching award, and he has received information he is a recipient
of one of the year's UNM outstanding graduate teaching associate awards
from the Department of Arts and Sciences. Earlier in 2007, he won
the Rocky Mountain conference outstanding graduate teaching associate
award.
C&J
faculty member named chair of Women Studies Program
Associate Professor Janet Cramer, a member of the journalism faculty
in the C&J Department, will take over in Autumn 2007 as chair
of the Women Studies Program while also continuing to teach C&J
classes.
Six
students are winners in Mercer Speech Tournament
Mrs. JoAnn Mercer was the special guest at the finalists round of
the 4th Annual Mercer Speech Tournament April 27, 2007. The tournament
awarded nearly $3,000 in scholarship funds to six finalist students
from across the university in competition hosted by the C&J Department.
Shayai
Lucero of the Ácoma and Laguna pueblos won a scholarship of
$1,000 for the next academic year for her speech about the personal
effects of DWI. The remaining finalists included: 2nd place,
$750—Albert Guillen; 3rd place, $500, Andrew Tennison; Finalists,
each $200—Nicole Achenbach, M. Jay Platt and Daniel Martinez.
The tournament is sponsored by Mrs. Mercer and named in honor of
her late husband and son, Joe and Steve Mercer. They were politicians
and lawyers who believed in the power of speech and debate, and Mrs.
Mercer created this scholarship to honor their commitments and memory.
C&J
faculty member awarded research grant
Assistant Professor Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik has received a $20,000 summer
2007 research grant to complete a book on "The Destructive Side
of Organizational Communication."
Advertising
students honored
2007 Clauve Award Winner
Dohnia W.
Dorman, an advertising student in C&J and a Spanish double major, will
receive a 2007 Clauve Outstanding Senior Award. The award is usually
presented to six to eight UNM seniors with outstanding academics, community
and campus involvement and leadership. UNM Dean of Students G. Randy
Boeglin will present the award at the UNM Recognition Reception on
April 12.
2006
Silver ADDY Winner
Shane
Harris, an advertising student in C&J received a 2006 Silver ADDY
in the New Mexico Advertising Federation's local ADDY competition
in the Student Category for a series of magazine ads designed for
"Under Armour Camouflage." The NMAF ADDYs recognize the
best in advertising creative in print, broadcast and interactive.
Local winners advance to district competition, then to the national
competition. Shane was honored at the annual ADDY ceremony March 23.
Lecturer
is awarded business fellowship
C&J Lecturer Dennis F. Herrick has been named as a fellow to the
first Business Journalism Professor Seminar Jan. 8-11, 2007, at the
Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona
State University. The fellowship, valued at $2,500, is intended to
improve education in journalism schools on business perspectives and
issues. Herrick is one of only 15 international educators awarded
the fellowship.
UNM
names Dr. Karen A. Foss as a Regents Professor
C&J Professor Karen A. Foss has received the prestigious title of Regents Professor
from the UNM Board of Regents, one of the highest honors for a faculty member.
Dr. Foss has taught communication courses at UNM since 1993, and she was C&J
chair from 1997 to 2000. She also teaches in Women's Studies. She is the author
of several books.
C&J
faculty to speak at SIETAR-USA conference
C&J Professor Emeritus Jack Condon and Professor Miguel Gandert
will speak at the SIETAR-USA
national conference Nov. 1-4, 2006, at the Albuquerque Hilton. SIETAR
stands for Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research.
Other speakers will include Susana Rinderle (M.A. 2004) and C&J
grad students.
C&J
student project wins World Bronze Medal; nominated
for Emmy
C&J Assistant Professor Glenda Balas and her students, with the assistance
of Broadcast Engineer Sean Solowiej, produced a film project that
was honored with a Bronze World Medal in New York at the 2006 New
York Festivals, an international competition. The film also was nominated
for a Rocky Mountain Emmy. The film, titled "Not in My Family,"
is in the Documentary-Topical category and was produced by Stephen
Adelsheim and Chris Schueler for SafeTeen
New Mexico.
C&J
faculty member named to Advertising Federation board
C&J Lecturer Karolyn Cannata-Winge has been named to the board
of the New Mexico Advertising Federation. One of Cannata-Winge's responsibilities
as a NMAF board member will be to serve as co-chair of the 2006-2007
local ADDYS advertising competition.
"Construction
Carnival" marks start of building remodeling
The start of the $4 million renovation of the historic C&J building
was celebrated with ceremonies and refreshments April 21, 2006. Some
work already has started, but the main construction phase was to start
in May. Coverage of the event is available on
C&J Online News.
C&J
faculty member appointed to APME committee
Albuquerque Journal editors invited C&J journalism lecturer Dennis
Herrick to serve on a planning committee for NewsTrain, a two-day
training session for newspaper editors sponsored by the Associated
Press Managing Editors. The NewsTrain session for western states editors
was held in Albuquerque on June 21-22, 2006.
C&J
student earns "Senior of the Year" award
Maya L. Oliver, a public relations student in Communication &
Journalism, received a 2006 Clauve
Outstanding Senior Award at the UNM Recognition Reception on April
20, 2006. UNM Dean of Students G. Randy Boeglin presented the award
to Maya and seven other seniors.
C&J
wins ADDY Award
UNM's Department of Communication & Journalism has received a
2005 New Mexico Advertising Federation President's Award (known as
the ADDY) for its ongoing contributions to the field and to the federation.
The award was presented at the federation's annual banquet March 21,
2006.
Ground-breaking
to be April 21
C&J Chair John Oetzel has announced that the ground-breaking ceremony
for the $4 million renovation of the
C&J building will be 2 to 4 p.m. on April 21, 2006.
Dr.
Rodriguez selected for national presentation
The Institute for Educational Inquiry selected UNM Assistant Professor
Ilia Rodriguez as one of 10 educators nationally to present a proposal
in 2006. Her proposal is for local study sessions to be led by a team
of five members, among them a bilingual (English/Spanish)program coordinator,
a school administrator and two journalists from the Spanish-language
media in New Mexico.
New
campus newspaper in 2006
Journalism students at UNM's branch campus in Taos have started a
monthly newspaper, a four-page tabloid titled The
Taos Times. The paper also maintains a Web site at www.taostimes.net.
This is the third UNM campus newspaper, along with The
Daily Lobo on the main campus and the weekly Campus Voice
on the Gallup branch campus.
Conference
speaker
C&J Professor John Oetzel was one of two keynote speakers at the
Sooner Communication Conference at the Department of Communication
at the University of Oklahoma on Feb. 24-26, 2006.
Building
renovation
The C&J building underwent extensive renovation in 2006 to add
classrooms, a new computer lab, and other improvements. The building,
designed by famous Southwest architect John Gaw Meem, was built in
1948. More information on the project is in the department's 2005
newsletter, which can be downloaded as a pdf
or by going to the building renovation page.
2006
New faculty member
Dr. Mary Jane Collier
started in January 2006 on the C&J faculty. Dr. Collier is a professor
of communication and comes to UNM from the University of Denver, where
she was professor and chair of the Department of Human Communication.
2005
New faculty members
Three new faculty members joined the department in 2005. Lecturer
II Karolyn Cannata-Winge
joined the faculty in January, coming from the Albuquerque Journal.
Joining the faculty in the fall semester were Assistant Professor
Patricia Covarrubias,
who came from the University of Montana, and Assistant Professor Pamela
Lutgen-Sandvik,
who received her Ph.D. from Arizona State University.
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