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Wil Granaderos and Cassandra Stagner win national competition!
Wil and Cassandra, FVMS students, took top honors in the national PSA competition sponsored by CNN, and Reporters Without Borders. The “For Press Freedom” Video Contest was a nationwide competition challenging university students to create a video PSA. Wil and Cassandra will be flown to New York City to participate in the many activities on World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2012 . Their winning video will be screened at an evening banquet and will be aired on CNN on May 3 .
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Art Hop Kalamazoo
This spring's Specialized Reporting course will be part of the June 1 Art Hop in Kalamazoo. Students in Prof. Sue Ellen Christian's course will showcase their photojournalism in an exhibit entitled "Kalamazoo-Area Portraits: Thoughts on the Hoodie, Post-Trayvon." The exhibit is at the Barnabee Gallery in the Powell Library, 1000 W. Patterson (in the Douglass Community Association building). For a sneak peek at the portraits, as well as dozens of other news stories, features, videos and slideshows by journalism students at WMU, go to (External) www.journalismatwmu.com

Gender
Dr. Jocelyn Steinke, professor of communication from Western Michigan University is the recipient of the 2012 Gender Scholar Award.
Dr. Steinke will present her research in a talk entitled “A Lab of Her Own: Gender, Science and Media” at noon on Wednesday, April 11 , in 3025 Brown Hall.
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Dr Gershon
Dr. Richard Gershon from Western Michigan University was awarded the second annual “Katherine B. Snow Best Research Paper Award” on March 31 at the International Telecommunications Education and Research Association’s (ITERA) annual conference. The award was established to honor Katherine B. Snow, beloved wife of former ITERA President, Dr. Andy Snow. The winning paper was entitled "Digital Media Innovation and the Apples iPad: Reinventing the 21st Century Newspaper” and was presented at the conference by Gershon.

Kathy Propp
Dr. Kathleen Propp was selected to receive one of three College of Arts and Sciences awards for Faculty Achievement in Teaching. Dr. Propp was recognized for her contributions to outstanding teaching in the graduate and undergraduate classroom and for her curriculum innovations in online instruction and service learning. Dr. Propp and other CAS award recipients received their honors at a college-wide reception held on March 21.

Stacey Weiland
Dr. Stacey Wieland received the Article of the Year award from Management Communication Quarterly for her paper entitled“Ideal Selves as Resources for the Situated Practice of Identity.”   Each year Sage Publications, publishers of this respected journal, presents the Article of the Year Award to the most significant paper published in the preceding volume as assessed by the Award Committee. Selection for this honor signifies the high level of esteem a scholar’s work holds among peers in the MCQ readership. Recognition of Dr. Wieland’s award will appear in the May 2012, MCQ Newsletter.

Overcoming Bias
(External) "Overcoming Bias: A Journalist's Guide to Culture and Context," by School of Communication Journalism professor Sue Ellen Christian , is now available.

Dr. Julie Apker
Dr. Julie Apker's "Communication in Health Organizations," a book published in October 2011 , explores the communication processes, issues, and concepts that influence the lives of patients, health professionals, and other members of health institutions.
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Dr. Mark Orbe
Dr. Mark Orbe's book 'Communication Realities in a "Post-Racial" Society: What the U.S. Public Really Thinks About Barack Obama', is set to be published by the end of October.
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Dr. Steve Lipkin
Dr. Steve Lipkin's screenplay, 'Betrayals',won the best screenplay award at the (External) Buffalo Niagara Film Festival

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