UA Students Admitted to Multicultural Internship Program
Kyndall Hinton and Kennedy Studdard each secured a placement with high-level advertising and public relations agencies through 4A’s Multicultural Advertising Internship Program.
UA Announces Winner of 2017 Clarence Cason Award
The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences has named award-winning author and professor Dr. Patricia Foster winner of the 2017 Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing.
UA’s Plank Center Hosts Inaugural Challenge for Emerging Leaders
UA’s Plank Center Hosts Inaugural “Challenge for Emerging Leaders,” an intensive, two-day leadership workshop for engaged, high-achieving and diverse university seniors majoring in public relations.
UA Professor to Hold Reading for ‘Crunk Feminist Collection’
A University of Alabama professor and her co-authors are holding a public reading of their work on black feminism, “The Crunk Feminist Collective.”
UA’s SLIS to Award $7,000 in Free Books
The University of Alabama’s School of Library and Information Studies will award over $7,000 in new children’s and young adult books to five school libraries in the Black Belt region of the state and one school library in an economically deprived area of Alabama outside of the Black Belt Region through its SLIS Book Bonanza for the Black Belt (and Beyond) program.
UA’s School of Library and Information Studies Names New Director
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama’s School of Library and Information Studies has named Dr. James K. Elmborg its new director. Elmborg comes to UA from his professorship at the University of Iowa, where he formerly served as director of the School of Library and Information Science from 2006 to 2011. At more than
UA Student Named Finalist for Public Relations Award
Katie Gatti, a University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences student, was selected as a finalist for Public Relations Student of the Year in the 2017 PRWeek Awards.
PRWeek Names UA’s Advertising, PR Program among Top Five
The University of Alabama’s advertising and public relations program, a department within the College of Communication and Information Sciences, has been named a top-five finalist for Outstanding Education Program in the 2017 PRWeek Awards.
UA Professor Receives Fellowship in Children’s Literature
Dr. Jamie Campbell Naidoo, associate and Foster- EBSCO Endowed Professor at The University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies, has received the first Arne Nixon Center Research Fellowship in Children’s Literature from California State University, Fresno.
UA Professor Returns to White House for Champions of Change Reunion
Dr. Suzanne Horsley, an associate professor in The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences, headed back to the White House for the Champions of Change Reunion today.