Month: November 2010

[jwplayer file=”college/PR-Future-Trends-Panel-2010-11-19.mp4″ html5_file=”http://fms01.jou.ufl.edu/college/PR-Future-Trends-Panel-2010-11-19.mp4″] During the past five years, social networking has revolutionized personal and professional communication. A conference call has been replaced with a Twitter chat. A handshake has been replaced with a Facebook “poke.” In the midst of a digital society, has interpersonal communication been compromised? Professional and student panelists address this question, and […]

Public Relations professor Ann Christiano, the first Frank Karel Chair in Public Interest Communications, takes the podium at the Nov. 18, 2010 event celebrating the establishment of the endowed chair. Related: Photo gallery from the event on the College’s Facebook page Ann Christiano introduced as nation’s first endowed professor in public interest communications College creates […]

Journalism professor Mindy McAdams, Knight Chair in Journalism Technologies and the Democratic Process in the College, recently concluded an online training course for 23 journalism professors in nine African countries. The online course, called “Teaching Online Journalism,” was created by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin […]

Mike Harding (Photo by Lidia Dinkova. Click image to enlarge.) Update (Nov. 17, 2010): Mike Harding has accepted the position of Senior Development Officer for the College. When the College needed someone to step in while Director of Development and Alumni Affairs Laforis Knowles, PR 2002, is on leave, it turned to Mike Harding, TEL […]

Professor John Kaplan was the only non-MD to address the Florida Society of Clinical Oncology 2010 Fall Session in Miami, Nov. 5-6. At the conference, Kaplan also launched a free DVD distribution program for his health science cancer education film, Not As I Pictured. The film is accompanied by an educational film companion guide edited […]

Professor John Kaplan’s health science education film, Not As I Pictured, has won awards at each festival it has screened in over the past month. At Cleveland’s Chagrin Falls Documentary Film Festival, the film won a Best Documentary Award. At the Orlando Film Festival, Not As I Pictured was named Most Inspiring Film. Kaplan’s related […]

The Finca Vigia Foundation and The National Trust for Historic Preservation will be presented the Heritage Award for International Excellence from the International Council on Monuments and Sites tonight, Nov. 9, in Washington D.C. at the 2010 Ann Webster Smith Award Gala. Bob Vila (JM 1969) is Co-Chair of The Finca Vigia Foundation’s Board of […]

Michael Connelly, JM 1980, Alumnus of Distinction and prolific crime novelist, returned to Gainesville to support the Alachua County Library fundraiser on Nov. 7. “Libraries are the cornerstone of society,” Connelly told the Gainesville Sun in the article, “UF alumnus, crime drama author speaks at benefit gala for the library.”

Bridget Grogan, WUFT-TV associate news director, discusses incoming election information with Blair Milko, Charlotte Porter and Clark Fouraker in the 21st Century News Laboratory. The election coverage from the lab was simulcast on Florida’s 89.1 WUFT-FM, WLUF and the Center for Media Innovation + Research website. (Photo by Craig Lee) More coverage: Photo gallery on […]