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Merritt discusses privacy during Internet Age for Mass Comm Week

Merritt discusses privacy during Internet Age for Mass Comm Week

Pictured above are a handful of the faculty, students and attendees who listened to Tom Merritt (third from left) present about privacy invasion. Merritt is an award-winning podcaster from Los Angeles who served as Mass Comm Week keynote speaker. Photo by Theresa San Luis

Award-winning podcaster Tom Merritt explored the notion that privacy is “declared dead” […]

CAS Colloquium: Panel addresses how humanities majors can find career niche

CAS Colloquium: Panel addresses how humanities majors can find career niche

Librarian Lora Smallman organized a panel discussion consisting of faculty, students and alumni who addressed how to find career paths following humanities studies. They shared their journeys as part of the College of Arts and Sciences Colloquium Series. Photo provided by Smallman
A panel of faculty, students and alumni addressed students during their discussion, “On the […]

Tunca presents music app test during Cellobration weekend

Tunca presents music app test during Cellobration weekend

Cellist and professor Ozan Tunca traveled from Turkey to present his Musical Talent iOS App as part of Cellobration weekend. He developed the app in 2010 to test musicians and prospective students for aural abilities. Photo courtesy of Tunca.
As part of Cellobration weekend, music professor Marta Simidtchieva brought Turkish cello professor Ozan Tunca on campus […]

CAS Colloquium: Kerber details early dance program history started by core group of ‘dedicated’ individuals

CAS Colloquium: Kerber details early dance program history started by core group of ‘dedicated’ individuals

University archivist and special collections librarian Steve Kerber presented his research on the SIUE dance program's early history during the College of Arts and Sciences Colloquium. Photo provided by Theresa San Luis.
During the 10th College of Arts and Sciences Colloquium, university archivist and special collections librarian Steve Kerber presented the dance program’s early history.
Kerber said […]

Theater students experience ‘original practice’ at the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia during spring break

Theater students experience ‘original practice’ at the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia during spring break

Senior theater major Ryan Weichmann overlooks a balcony at the Blackfriars Playhouse at the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia during spring break. Photo courtesy of Johanna Schmitz
Theater professor Johanna Schmitz and six students traveled to Staunton, Va., to study and interact with actors who perform at the Blackfriars Playhouse at the American Shakespeare Center.
According to […]

Speakers to address Internet surveillance and the roles of media for annual Mass Comm Week

Speakers to address Internet surveillance and the roles of media for annual Mass Comm Week

Numerous speakers will address Internet privacy issues and the role of media for Mass Comm Week. Image courtesy of Gary Hicks
Mass Comm Week starts today and focuses on Internet privacy– both government and private sector roles– and the implications of what people would label as surveillance or “spying,” according to Mass Communications Department Chair Gary […]

Visiting scholar presents jade perspectives and various areas of expertise from China

Visiting scholar presents jade perspectives and various areas of expertise from China

Anthropology professor Shouyong Pan explained the motifs of jade sculptures and presented on other areas of his expertise as visiting scholar Photo courtesy of Willmott
Professor of anthropology and museum studies Shouyong Pan of Minzu University in Beijing shared his insights of jade sculptures with anthropology students at the Ethnology Museum Laboratory last week as visiting scholar.
Pan also […]

Students to ‘Make a Move’ through devised play: created storylines and improvised acting

Students to ‘Make a Move’ through devised play: created storylines and improvised acting

"Make a Move" play was devised by its actors and directed by theater education professor Leslie Van Leishout. Photo courtesy of Theresa San Luis
Theater students created the play “Make a Move” and will act with some improvisation in their performances.
Theater education professor Leslie Van Leishout, also director of “Make a Move,” allowed the six actors and […]

‘Orpheus in the Underworld’ operetta to take off in comedic style by Music Department

‘Orpheus in the Underworld’ operetta to take off in comedic style by Music Department

The cast of "Orpheus in the Underworld" rehearses in Dunham Hall Theater. Photo courtesy of Kourtnee Brenner.
Student performers in the music department will juggle comedic moments- prancing, singing and dancing-among a cast of 16 in “Orpheus in the Underworld” by Jacques Offenbach.
According to Randy Trisler, senior music education major, who plays Orpheus, the operetta is […]

International Women’s Day edition publishes professor’s article on Bulgarian gender roles in media

International Women’s Day edition publishes professor’s article on Bulgarian gender roles in media

Mass communications professor Elza Ibroscheva and her colleague’s article, “Hidden in Public View: Visual representations of women in the Bulgarian communist press,” was selected for publication by editors of the March 8 International Women’s Day online edition of Routledge.
Mass communications professors Elza Ibroscheva and Nadia Kaneva of the University of Denver had an article selected for […]

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