This week Global Village falls for a pencil, takes a food challenge, catches up with the Blues, meets a small business owner, explores the sculpture’s around campus, checks out what some of the TV students are producing, and goes behind the scenes of the new Global Village open.
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Mass Comm Alumni, Rick Bragga, will be on campus this Friday, October 2, 2015, for his Alumni Hall of Fame induction. There will also be a coffee hour at 10:30 am in Peck Hall 3117. Rick Bragga, BA Mass Comm / TV-Radion ’77 and MS Mass Comm ’82, is the president of Philanthropy 1, a philanthropic … More Alumni, Bragga, to be on campus for Hall of Fame induction & coffee hour
If “The Tonight Show” and “Saturday Night Live” had a baby, it would be none other than “STL Up Late.” “STL UP Late” allows the Midwest to have a voice that has not been heard before, while also shining light on the city’s artistic community. Rafe Williams, an SIUE alum, writer and performer for “STL … More SIUe Alum involved in “STL UpLate”, KMOV’s newest late night comedy talk show
SIUe Grad student, Tiffany Graham, was chosen as a finalist in The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Metro East Startup Challenge (MESC), a regional business plan competition for entrepreneurs and startups. The top teams of the nine finalists presented their winning business concepts at the Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois Board of Directors meeting last Friday, before a live audience of … More Grad Student’s start-up chosen as finalist
Julie Smith, an adjunct professor at SIUE and alumni, has been speaking about media for the last five years and is speaking at an upcoming Media Trends conference in Vienna, Austria. Smith, recently, released a book, “Master the Media: How Teaching Media Literacy Can Save Our Plugged-in World,” that discusses media as a whole, including television, … More Julie Smith’s new book and plans for Fall
Today Jeff Mizanskey, sentenced to life without parole for pot, walked out of a Missouri prison a free man after serving 20 years, thanks in part to Eric Sykes, a former student in the Mass Comm Dept. Eric produced a documentary for Kaleidoscope as a class assignment in 2013, which focused on Mizanskey’s plight, urging a pardon … More Former Mass Comm student helps change man’s future
John Kelly is returning for his 10th year as the television play-by-play announcer for the St. Louis Blues.He graduated from SIUe in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications – Television & Radio and is returning for a chat. He has called NHL games for over 20 seasons and comes from a hockey broadcasting family … More Alumni Announcer for the St. Louis Blues to visit SIUe
“When Ashley Seering and Cory Byers started gathering stories about heroin addiction and deaths in southern Illinois, the Edwardsville-based filmmakers didn’t realize it would turn into a feature-length documentary.” By DURRIE BOUSCAREN • APR 7, 2015 Check out the full story here: http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/edwardsville-filmmakers-confront-pain-heroin-addiction-through-crowd-sourced-documentary “People don’t even know that this exists. Community interest needs to be … More Cougar-made documentary gets recognition on St. Louis Public Radio
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