Jenny Oyallon-Koloski considers the power of movement in film in her first book: ‘Storytelling in Motion’

May 10, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood Three vertical mirrors hang on the wall in the office of Jenny Oyallon-Koloski, assistant professor of media and cinema studies, where she keeps an open area that allows her the space to move.  As a certified movement analyst and director of the movement visualization (mv) lab, she wants the […]

Media alum, veteran CBS News reporter Rick Sallinger passes away

Rick Sallinger (BS ’71, MS ’72, advertising), a Peabody Award-winning veteran CBS News reporter, died on May 8, 2024. He was 74 years old. After working as a radio reporter in Cleveland and Chicago, Sallinger moved on to television news working at stations in Indianapolis, Denver, and Chicago.  In 1990, Sallinger became a foreign war correspondent […]

Advertising students devise campaign to help boost tourism in rural southern Illinois counties

May 8, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood Students in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising devised an ad campaign that launched this spring to help boost tourism for counties in southern Illinois.   The campaign was part of a class project in Advertising 400: Sandage Studios, taught last fall by Shachar Meron, senior lecturer in advertising.  […]

Media faculty and TAs make list of teachers ranked as excellent

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 […]

College of Media apparel on sale through May 24

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 […]

Projects involving College of Media faculty, doctoral students receive funding from Chancellor’s Call to Action Research Program

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 […]

Clifford Christians receives AEJMC’s Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award

May 3, 2024 Clifford Christians, research professor emeritus of communications, and professor emeritus of media studies and of journalism, will receive the 2024 Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The award will be presented at AEJMC’s 107th annual conference in Philadelphia this August. “I am […]

Journalism alumna publishes article in ‘Newsweek’

Mary Lynch Snowdon (BS ’86, journalism) wrote an article that was published in Newsweek recently titled “My Talented Son Has Autism. As a Mother, I Feel Like a Dual Citizen.” In the article, Snowdon writes about her experience parenting her son with autism, who is now in his mid-20s and a talented golfer. Snowdon is a […]

Media students present at 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium

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 […]

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