Media, FAA faculty’s collaborative film-poem ‘Factories at Sea’ selected for multiple film festivals

October 30, 2023 | Kelly Youngblood An interdisciplinary collaboration between two College of Media and College of Fine & Applied Arts faculty members has led to an award-winning visual poem that’s been selected to be screened at five film festivals worldwide. Victor Font, lecturer of media and cinema studies, and Cristobal Bianchi, assistant professor of studio […]

2023-2024 student award and scholarship recipients

October 11, 2023 Updated May 6, 2024 Congratulations to these College of Media students who received campus and college awards and honors, and scholarships and fellowships that were made possible thanks to our donors. HONORS Bronze Tablet Inscription on the Bronze Tablets in the Main Library recognizes students ranking in the top three percent of their graduating […]

Media faculty and TAs make list of teachers ranked as excellent

September 8, 2023 Congratulations to all of the College of Media faculty and teaching assistants who were ranked as excellent by their students! This list is based on Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) questionnaire forms completed by students during the Spring 2023 semester. Only those instructors who distributed ICES forms at least once during this time […]

Journalism master’s student Herbert DaCosta awarded fellowship to help educate public about climate change

July 10, 2023 | Kelly Youngblood Herbert DaCosta, a graduate student in the journalism master’s degree program, was awarded the 2023-24 Thornton Tomasetti Foundation Technical Literacy Fellowship for his exceptional submittal to help the wider public understand and connect with climate change. DaCosta is a research development manager at the University of Illinois Office of […]

Media faculty, students present at 2023 International Communication Association conference

June 15, 2023 The College of Media was well represented at the 73rd annual International Communication Association conference this summer in Toronto, Canada, with many faculty and graduate students presenting on the theme of “Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication.” The ICA aims to advance the scholarly study of human communication by encouraging and facilitating excellence in […]

Jim Schlueter, generous donor and retired Boeing communicator, receives 2023 College of Media Distinguished Alumni Award

May 18, 2023 | Kelly Youngblood When it comes to career accomplishments, Jim Schlueter (BS ’80, journalism) could name a few, but none are quite as important to him as his ability to build up others.  It’s an honorable trait Schlueter has carried with him throughout his life—as an undergraduate student at Illinois, during his […]

Hollywood executive and alumna Emma Miller honored with 2023 College of Media Emerging Leader Award

May 18, 2023 | Kelly Youngblood When Emma Miller (BS ’08, media studies) graduated from the University of Illinois she wasn’t sure where her degree would take her.  Now, 15 years later as a Hollywood executive taking on a new leadership role at Netflix, Miller can say she’s exactly where she wants to be.  After […]

Journalism students win NATAS Mid-America Student Production Awards

May 9, 2023 Several journalism students in the UI7 Newsroom team were recognized as winners of the 2023 National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) Mid-America Student Production Awards.  Winners include journalism graduate student Manu Ferreira for “Succeeding in a New World” in the Non-Fiction – Long Form category; journalism and political science dual-degree undergraduate student J. […]

Students place 2nd in AAF’s district-wide National Student Advertising Competition

May 5, 2023 | Kelly Youngblood A group of Illinois advertising and computer science + advertising students earned second place in the district level at the American Advertising Federation’s National Student Advertising Competition held April 27-28 in South Bend, Indiana. After extensive marketing research, the Illinois NSAC team of students—which includes researchers, strategists, creatives, media […]

2022-2023 student award and scholarship recipients

May 5, 2023 Updated May 31, 2023 Congratulations to these College of Media students who received campus and college awards and honors, and scholarships and fellowships that were made possible thanks to our donors. HONORS Bronze Tablet Inscription on the Bronze Tablets in the Main Library recognizes students ranking in the top three percent of their graduating […]

College of Media
119 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-2350