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Category: Awards

UofM’s Dept. of Journalism and Strategic Media honored with 2023 AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award

By: Chuck Gallina The University of Memphis Department of Journalism and Strategic Media will be honored with the 2023 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Equity & Diversity Award in a unanimous decision. “After reviewing this year’s nominations, the EDA selection committee highlighted several achievements in the UofM…

Film Professor’s TV Pilot Script Named to Grey List

Professor Marty Lang’s television pilot script TECHNOCRACY was just named to The Grey List, an annual list featuring the best screenwriting by writers over 40 years old! The Grey List includes both film and television scripts and was compiled after an international call for submissions.  

Amanda Nell Edgar Wins Prestigious Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award from the National Communication Association

Amanda Nell Edgar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Film at the University of Memphis, recently received the 2021 Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award from the National Communication Association (NCA). “Not only is this one of the most prestigious national awards in the area of rhetoric, it is…

Kim Marks Malone, APR, Fellow PRSA receives Steve and Linda Simon Family Fellowship

Kim Marks Malone, APR, Fellow PRSA, online program coordinator and PR instructor, has been awarded the Steve and Linda Simon Family Fellowship for 2021-24. The Simon Family Fellowship is the University’s first fellowship dedicated to a public relations faculty member. It honors the late SSPR founder Steve Simon and is…

UofM Theatre Professor Receives Prestigious Fulbright Scholarship

Sarah Brown, associate professor in Theater & Dance at the University of Memphis, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to Romania where she will teach performance and direct acting students in a series of solo shows for NATO. The award runs from October 2021 through June 2022. Brown will be teaching solo…

Communication and Film professors’ book releases in paperback, wins NCA award

A book coauthored by two professors with the Department of Communication and Film in 2018 has been released in paperback format and earned recognition from the National Communication Association. “The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter” by Dr. Andre E. Johnson, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and…