Note: Next week's Monday Memo will be the last edition of the spring semester. The newsletter is distributed monthly during the summer. If you have items for next week, please email to [email protected] before 5 p.m. Friday, May 14.
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Cal Butcher named Katich Award for Creativity winner |
Cal Butcher, director of Media Crossroads, has been selected as this year’s winner of the J-School's Katich Award for Creativity. In announcing the award, the judges said: “The award judges are asked to keep in mind the importance of the Katich concept of challenging and helping students, and this year’s winner excelled in both of those areas at a time when students really needed faculty members to step up. He especially went above and beyond to make sure that students could have the full experience, and he helped keep the lobby of Stauffer-Flint a safe beehive of activity when the rest of the campus seemed deserted.” Congratulations, Cal!
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The J-School's Diversity and Inclusion Action Group (DIAG) hosted a student panel discussing diversity at KU. The panel was moderated by Patricia Gaston, the Lacy C. Haynes Professor of Journalism. First-year student Mya Peterson and doctoral student Shola Aromona invited panelists from the Black Student Union, the Freshman Action Team, and the Graduate Students of Color Network. Based on the experiences of these students, who all identified with a racial/ethnic minority group, key takeaways from the panel included:
- Students from diverse backgrounds and schools can face a “culture shock” at a predominantly white institution such as KU.
- Importance of being acknowledged but not singled out. As one panelist said, “See me but don’t point me out.”
- Appreciating instructors who establish clear rules for class discussions and implement these rules.
- Feeling left out of discussion/feeling that their point of view does not matter as much.
- Instructors should not assume that students know how the campus operates and should share campus resources with students.
Did you miss our National Citation award event last month featuring Martin Baron, retired executive editor of The Washington Post? A recording of the event is now available. Baron accepted the award and gave an address followed by Q&A.
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RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS |
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Associate Professor Mugur Geana's co-authored research paper "Managing Technology, Content, and User Experience: An mHealth Intervention to Improve Women's Health Literacy after Incarceration" has been published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. The article is available here.
Associate Professor Teri Finneman was quoted in this story about First Lady Jill Biden’s role in helping advance President Joe Biden’s policies and agenda.
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STUDENT NEWS & OPPORTUNITIES |
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Graduate student award winners |
Congratulations to the following graduate student award winners for 2020-21 (as voted on by members of the graduate faculty and graduate students):
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Most creative research paper title: Annalise Baines, Mauryne Abwao and Muhammad Ittefaq for “#Scamdemic, #Plandemic or #Scaredemic? What Parler social media platform tells us about COVID-19 vaccine.”
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Outstanding GTA: Jackie Liu
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Most productive researcher: Muhammad Ittefaq
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Outstanding graduate student: John Watson
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The Women Philanthropists for KU are supporting a LaunchKU project for students at The Agency, a J-School organization that allows KU students to create real-world advertising and public relations campaigns for clients. Donors Jim Chastain, j’81, and Don Hunter, j’67, have committed a total of $2,500 to match donations for The Agency. The project is two-thirds of the way to its goal with 17 days left. Donate here.
Christopher Heady’s JOUR 585 students have completed a project documenting how COVID-19 affected sports in Kansas and what has happened since sports tried to restart. Read the stories here.
Ph.D. candidate Harrison M. Rosenthal’s article “Kansas Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being and the Path Forward” was published as a white paper for the Kansas Bar. Rosenthal serves as principal investigator for the task force’s well-being census. Read the article here.
Axia Public Relations is providing a $2,000 scholarship for an upperclassman student interested in public relations. The deadline to apply is May 31. More information here.
Insider and NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists are looking for a fellow to join Insider this summer for an inaugural program that aims to provide a fellowship opportunity to a reporter from the LGBTQ community who wants to take their journalism career to the next level in a supportive, engaging newsroom aimed at increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in the industry. Deadline to apply is May 31. Learn more here.
Applications are now open for the Higher Education Media Fellowship, which supports working U.S. journalists interested in learning more about and covering issues related to post-secondary career and technical education (CTE). Selected fellows are awarded $10,000 — $5,000 as a stipend and $5,000 towards a postsecondary CTE reporting project. The application deadline is May 28.
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Career and Outreach Office collecting graduate information |
The Career and Outreach Office is gathering information from the Class of 2021 to update graduate placement data. Graduating seniors are encouraged to complete the survey here.
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Job opportunities
Internship listings
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Cheers to Careers podcast: Danya Issawi |
Danya Issawi, j'18, assistant news editor at the New York Times, was a guest with Steve Rottinghaus on the Career and Outreach Center’s Cheers to Careers podcast recently. Watch the video here.
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Michelle Li, j’02, multimedia journalist at 5 On Your Side, the NBC affiliate in St. Louis, Missouri,
Katie Briscoe, j’05, president of MMGY Global, has received the CBIZ Women Transforming Business Award. From the news release: “Undoubtedly, the pandemic had a significant impact on MMGY Global and their clients. Katie met those challenges head-on by restructuring the organization to protect jobs, redirecting funds toward workplace innovation, and continuing to advocate for the travel industry through the crisis thus underscoring the agency's position as a travel industry expert. Remarkably, Katie maintained double-digit profit margins and was able to position MMGY Global for substantial growth in 2021.”
Tejinder Singh Sodhi, j'13, is an assistant editor at CNN News18 in New Delhi, India.
Pavlina Clarke, j’20, is an account manager at Insight Global.
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