CI Connect 2014

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DEAN

H. Dan O’Hair

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS, EDITORS, AND PHOTOGRAPHERS

Beth Barnes • Director, School of Journalism and Telecommunications Erin Berger • Director, Marketing Janice Birdwhistell • Chief of Staff Will Buntin • Assistant Director Student Affairs, School of Library and Information Science Lesley Cissell • Alumni, 1982 Elisia Cohen • Chair, Department of Communication Jeff Huber • Director, School of Library and Information Science Sarah Kercsmar • ICR Lecturer Yung Soo Kim • Photography Melissa Patrick • Student, JOU Ashley Scoby • Student, JOU Deanna Sellnow • Director, Division of Instructional Communication & Research Tim Sellnow • Associate Dean, Graduate Program in Communication Ann Stroth • Photography Amy Triana • Photography UKPR • Photography Deb Weis • iNET Director

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At a glance: CI Unit Updates A Year in Photos

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Giving By Doing

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Giving Honor Roll

DESIGN

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Class Notes

PRINTING

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An Anniversary Worth Remembering 20 Years and Counting

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ABOUT CI Connect CI Connect is published annually for the alumni, students, faculty and friends of the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information.

All correspondence should be directed to: Janice Birdwhistell, Chief of Staff 308C Lucille Little Library Lexington, KY 40506-0224 E-mail: janice.bird@uky.edu Phone: 859-257-4241 The University of Kentucky is committed to a policy of providing educational opportunities to all academically qualified students regardless of economic or social status and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, veteran status, or physical or mental disability.

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Message From the Dean Greetings!

CI Connect was established to reinforce the connection with our alumni and friends. By celebrating our past successes and sharing with you our major plans for the future, we hope to strengthen this supportive relationship. I hope this issue reminds you of our storied past and leaves you feeling the promise of our bright future. In the 2014 issue of CI Connect you will find stories about our faculty, students, alumni, and friends and the ways in which they are impacting our community.

In 2013, we established new career-driven paths in the Department of Communication that explicitly prepare students for job placement after graduation. Our School of Journalism and Telecommunications continues to house one of our most popular majors, integrated strategic communication. The School of Library and Information Science is leading the way in distance learning through its master’s degree and new online undergraduate minor. The Graduate Program is accepting and refining students that are more prolific scholars than ever before.

We have responded to fiscal challenges by focusing on curriculum and growing our academic programs to support even more talented students. In fall 2014, we look forward to offering additional undergraduate degrees in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) which will prepare students for careers in diverse, analytical industries.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the merger between the College of Communications and the College of Library and Information Science. The merger positioned our present-day college to expand our academic influence on campus and improve our visibility. More than ever, 20 years later, we are committed to collaborating across boundaries of communication and information to stay ahead of the curve in today’s society.

Any anniversary creates an opportunity for reminiscing.

As we reflect on our history, I would also like to reveal a special new project for this spring. In an effort to record the

history and development of the College, several partners will participate in a documentary project in May titled, “Conversations with Lewis Donohew and Colleagues.”

Since his roots as a journalism student at UK, Lewis Donohew has been a powerful influence within our College. His ties to journalism, the Kentucky Kernel, the Graduate Program, and the development of the communication program provide a connection to the larger picture of our many historical achievements.

The project will feature conversations between more than two dozen individuals with primary roles and notable experiences. Audience guests will also have the opportunity to add to the conversation by participating with questions and comments. By establishing an interactive environment, we hope to recapture the College’s history and development through a narrative perspective of many key players.

In support of this project, the College has established a separate fund for donations designated for the “Conversations Project.” If you are interested in contributing, please contact myself, or our Director of Development.

CI is recognized as one of the fastest growing colleges at the University of Kentucky, excelling not only in enrollment and retention, but also in overall student success. We could not have achieved this without your contributions of time, financial support, and internship opportunities. Thank you for all of your contributions. It will help us to ensure that we continue to provide our students with this exceptional experience.

Please stay in touch and let us know your ideas for a better CI. Building stronger relationships with our alumni and friends will guarantee the future success of our students. Because of you, we are able to say we are one of the best colleges at this university.

H. Dan O’Hair

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School of Journalism & Telecommunications • Six journalism graduates visited campus to discuss career opportunities in community journalism.

Five Integrated Strategic Communication graduates working in Nashville, Tenn. talked with current students about career opportunities in that city. Both groups spoke as part of the Richard G. Wilson Alumni Speakers Symposium series.

• Journalism student Ashley Scoby won the David Dick “What a Great Story!” Storytelling award in the student category, and Meaghan Downs of The Anderson News in Lawrenceburg, KY., won in the professional category.

• Broadcast journalism students won 10 awards from the Kentucky Associated Press.

The awards included first place for Best Radio Public Affairs, first place for Best TV Feature and first place for Best TV Public Affairs Reporting.

• The Kentucky Kernel won best collegiate newspaper honors in the Kentucky Press Association’s competition for the ninth consecutive year.

• Team “Wildcat ISC,” the school’s entry in the National Student Advertising Competition sponsored by the American Advertising Federation, won the District Five competition with its campaign for Glidden Paint, sold at Walmart. The team competed nationally in Phoenix, Ariz. in June, and was named one of the top 20 teams in the country.

• In addition to opportunities working with UK student media outlets, the school’s students report online at bluecoastlive.wordpress.com, report and produce a daily live television newscast through the UK Student News Network, and provide the morning news and the weekly “Campus Voices” public affairs program on WRFL. • School faculty members taught study abroad courses in Dublin, Ireland, London, England and Cape Town, South Africa. Six members of the school’s faculty visited southern Africa during the past year for activities related to the school’s on-going partnerships with media entities in Zambia; Mel Coffee spent six weeks in Zambia as a Fulbright Specialist working with ZNBC, the national broadcasting organization.

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Department of Communication • The Department of Communication welcomed new chair, Elisia Cohen, to serve as unit leader from 2013–2017. She appointed Donald Helme as director of undergraduate studies and Shari Veil as the new director of advising and student success.

• Shari Veil’s new course, Communication and Humanity in a Zombie Apocalypse launched in the fall; the final course project included a major disaster drill in the Grehan Journalism Building. National Public Radio/WUKY and ABC-TV Channel 36 covered the course and its training of students in disaster and crisis communication and preparedness.

• Elisia Cohen’s research and creative video intervention (“1-2-3 Pap”) designed to improve communication, uptake and adherence to the three-dose Human Pappilomavirus Vaccine was featured by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the leading communication journal, Journal of Communication.

• Matthew Savage and Allison Scott partnered with researchers in the College of Dentistry to develop communication strategies to improve oral health outcomes, which will be featured in a 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association.

• Shari Veil led research on “Opportunities and Challenges for Public Libraries to Enhance Community Resilience” published in Risk Analysis, the premier national risk science publication.

• Alan DeSantis, Elisia Cohen and recent Ph.D., Kathryn Anthony, published a study in Substance Abuse & Misuse indicating that students whose health care providers communicate with them about their medication risks and benefits are less likely to illegally distribute this medication.

• J. David Johnson published his sixth book, Dosage: A Guiding Principle for Health Communicators.

• Douglas Boyd has announced his phased retirement.

• Cyndy Miller was one of six faculty members across the university to win the 2013–2014 Great Teacher award presented by the UK Alumni Association.

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AT A GLANCE School of Library & Information Science And Division of Instructional Communication & Research • 2013 proved to be a significant year for the School of Library and Information Science. In January, the School began offering its first undergraduate courses as it launched a new university minor in Information Studies. This is the only minor on campus that can be completed entirely online.

• Over the summer, the School welcomed the Division of Instructional Communication and Research (ICR) as a unit within the School. This merger brings together resources to fully support UK’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), ‘Presentation U.’ The School also welcomed eight new faculty members with a wide range of expertise and research interests.

• Faculty from the School continued to be featured in news media including television stories featuring Anthony Limperos, Sherali Zeadally and Michael Tsikerdekis; radio stories with Jami Warren; and newspaper and magazine articles featuring Brandi Frisby, Andrea Reed and Deanna Sellnow.

• School faculty also received several awards. Jasmine McNealy was selected as the inaugural Fellow for the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication. Youngseek Kim received the ASIS&T Best Conference Paper award. At the fall College awards banquet, ICR faculty member Brandi Frisby won the Faculty Research Award while ICR faculty member Anthony Limperos won the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. Sherali Zeadally was named Editor-in-Chief of the IET Wireless Sensor Systems journal.

• ICR implemented new courses for undergraduate students to serve as teaching apprentices in college classrooms, consultant tutors in the MC3 lab, and mentors helping secondary school students make effective transitions from high school to college.

Graduate Program in Communication • Generous gifts from our alumni continue to support our graduate students in their research efforts through a series of fellowships. We are grateful to all of our alumni who contribute to our program. Your contributions are dedicated to helping our graduate students excel.

• The Sypher Memorial Graduate Scholarship for excellence in interpersonal, organizational, or mass communication research was awarded to Chuck Madinger. The Bruce H. Westley Memorial Scholarship for excellence in mass communication theory and research was earned by Ben Triana, and the Phil Palmgreen Fellowship for excellence in health communication campaign research was presented to Jenna Reno.

• Michael Carozza, a 1977 alum of the CJT graduate program, sponsors two fellowships for graduate students emphasizing health communication in their doctoral dissertations. The fellowships are designed to assist students with the cost of data collection or data processing for their dissertations. This year, the Carroza fellowships were awarded to Nick Iannarino and Rachael Record. Both are writing dissertations related to health communication and cancer. Nick is studying cancer narratives and Rachael is focusing on a communication campaign to curb tobacco use.

• Doctoral students Kathryn Anthony, Katharine Head, Elizabeth Petrun, and Sarah Riley marched in the fall commencement. Anthony is an assistant professor at Columbia College in Columbia, S.C. Head is in a post-doc position at the University of Kentucky. Petrun is a risk communication specialist for the Department of Homeland Security in the Washington, D.C. area. Riley teaches at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.

• ICR also launched M.A.D. (Making a Difference) College-wide to engage CI faculty and staff in outreach to help underrepresented people and groups in the commonwealth. Most significant was the clothing drive to support the One Parent Scholar House.

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A Year in

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2013 The 36th annual Joe Creason Lecture was delivered by Al Tompkins, senior faculty for broadcast and online at the Poynter Institute and one of America’s most requested journalism and multimedia instructors.

Tamera Luzzatto, Senior Vice President of Government Relations for The Pew Charitable Trust, delivered the 2013 James C. Bowling Executive-inResidence Lecture in October.

A team of 17 students from the Integrated Strategic Communication program won first place in the district competition of the National Student Advertising Competition with its campaign for Glidden Paint.

The School of Library and Information Science hosted their first study abroad course in Belfast, Ireland where students examined the role of culture and conflict in international information.

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The Scripps-Howard First Amendment Center became the sponsor of the UK Spelling Bee, a semifinal round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The UK Forensics Team completed their first season, bringing home more than 50 individual awards in their first 12 tournaments.

As always, there was a spectacular showing by both faculty and students in Washington, D.C. for the 99th annual National Communication Association conference. Graduate Program recruitment efforts were well received. In addition to the numerous research presentations and panels, the College and Department of Communication hosted an impressive reception for prospective students, alumni and friends.

Thanks to Michael Carozza and his family for their generous support and sponsorship of the event.

The Innovation Network for Entrepreneurial Thinking (iNET), hosted by the College as a university-wide initiative, launched its iNET Entrepreneurial Studies Living Learning Community in Patterson Hall—an opportunity for 20 undergraduate students to live and learn together in an integrated academic residential environment.

The Department of Communication hosted their first “Choose Wisely” week designed to advise students majoring in communication on selecting one of the four newly refined tracks: health communication, business and organizational communication, digital and mass communication, and human communication.

The College hosted their first student “Eat and Greet” this fall.

The cookout brought together hundreds of perspective and current students across all units in the college to learn more about opportunities for student involvement, academic programs, and college-wide resources.

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Giving by Doing

By Ashley Scoby “It’s great that the board allows someone like me, who has been in library science, to share ideas with people who have been in public relations or journalism or other communication fields,” Nelson said.

NAB members meet on campus twice a year to discuss the future of the College, and how they can help it reach its goals and objectives. For example, the board comes up with ideas about how to attract and retain students to its four majors—Communication, Integrated Strategic Communication, Journalism and Media Arts and Studies (formerly Telecommunications).

Fundraising is also a key goal for the NAB. Members brainstorm ideas to inspire donations and how to increase scholarship funding. Some members also make fiscal donations in addition to donating time and expertise.

If time is money, then 24 men and women on the College of Communication and Information’s National Advisory Board (NAB) are big-time donors.

NAB, put together in 2011, was created to help the College bring outside perspective to its current programs and future plans. Split into three committees— Student Recruitment and Retention, Stewardship and Development, and External Relations—each member participates to help the college grow.

The diversity of the board’s participants is its calling card and what makes it successful. From CEOs of major companies to journalists to public relations professionals to retirees, the Advisory Board comprises members with multiple backgrounds, and is selective about who is invited to join.

In terms of external relations, the board looks at ways it can involve the community in existing programs within the College, such as student clubs and organizations which often require guest speakers. The committee helps identify which community members would be willing to share their experiences with students.

Innovations within the College’s programming or curriculum are always at the forefront of the board’s discussions. A particular focus of Dean O’Hair’s has been health literacy, and the NAB has made suggestions of what can be offered in a Health Communication program and how the community can be involved.

“For me, it’s not about the diversity. It’s about the magnificent gathering of minds,” said Henry Evans, the External Relations Committee chair and a partner at Nettrade, LLC. “From a small business background to a journalism or newspaper background, to a big business background. It’s just really a wise thing on behalf of Dean (Dan) O’Hair because it brings experience and most importantly, perspective.”

NAB Chairman Jim Nelson, retired as the state librarian and commissioner for the Kentucky Department of Libraries, and is proud of the board for being so effective.

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Giving Innovations within the College’s programming or curriculum are always at the forefront of the board’s discussions.

John Antenucci, chair of the Student Recruitment and Retention Committee, is a perfect example of a NAB member’s commitment to the College. Antenucci drove last year from Knoxville to Louisville to participate in one of UK’s Preview Nights, held throughout Kentucky and other states to recruit students to UK. After the nearly 250 mile drive, Antenucci worked in the CI booth recruiting Louisville-area high school students to the College.

Pat Dalbey, another board member and President and General Manager of WLEX-TV, helped arrange for the College to be a featured sponsor of the Urban Mountain Challenge in downtown Lexington. “This provided an invaluable opportunity for the College’s name to be splashed around,” according to O’Hair.

O’Hair also said Robert Slaton, a private health care consultant on the board, has been a “tremendous help” with UK’s research into health communication.

Board members also spend time helping find ways to help our students. David Thompson, executive director of the Kentucky Press Association helped start an internship program for students. College students from across the state now have the opportunity to intern at participating Kentucky newspapers. Thompson stressed the importance of this real-world experience, and his desire for students to gain experience through internships is something he brings to the board.

“The internship program is a good way for students to get their feet wet and see if they really want to be in the newspaper industry,” he said. “We want to provide this opportunity for them, where they’re actually working and not just getting coffee for people. They need this experience.”

Phil Osborne, CEO of Preston-Osborne, a public relations firm based in Lexington, also offers UK students an internship experience. In addition, he stays in touch

with former Preston-Osborne interns (some of them UK students) and often meets up with them for coffee.

Judy Clabes, chair of the Stewardship and Development Committee, founded KyForward, an online site that covers news and events throughout Kentucky. Clabes also has interns (many of them UK students) working at KyForward.

Having a medley of people on the board such as Evans, Antenucci, Nelson, Slaton and Clabes that represent a variety of employers in the field was important to O’Hair when he first started recruiting members.

“It’s important for us to provide the viewpoint of an employer,” he said. “These are who students get jobs from.

This board has their finger on the pulse of the profession, and can help us understand how to give students the best possible experience and then help get them into the profession.”

As an alumnus, Clabes, was particularly interested in offering internships and being part of the Advisory Board.

“I just know that when I was a student, I wanted to take advantage of every opportunity there was, and UK gave me a lot of them,” she said. “If you’re a student, I just can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want to take advantage of all the opportunities you have right in front of you. So we as a board try to provide more of those opportunities.”

There are also a number of board members who graduated from other universities and graduate programs.

Rufus Friday, president and publisher of the Lexington Herald-Leader, is a graduate of North Carolina State University. Doug Robinson, the executive director of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, holds a bachelor’s degree from Maryville College (Tenn.) and a Master of Public Information from the University of Tennessee. Henry Evans, the chair of the External Relations Committee, is a West Point graduate.

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Evans, for one, just wanted to maintain his ties to home.

“I’m from right here in Lexington,” he said. “Being a native, I’m a true blue-blooded fan on the athletics side. I’ve been on a number of boards in my life and the challenge with this Board is to gain an understanding of how the College functions and figure out how best to help. I just wanted to try to help the students and help my hometown university.”

Whether they have graduated from UK or not, whether they are in public relations, journalism, corporate communications or library science, the College’s National Advisory Board brings together members from 24 distinct backgrounds. And they have all come together for one common goal—to offer their years of expertise in order to help provide a better educational experience for CI students who choose to go down similar career paths.

Board members spend time finding ways to help our students.

“It’s all in the best interests of the students,” Osborne said. “It’s not just to show up and get a free breakfast.

We’re there to help students, quite simply.”

For additional information and a list of members of the CI National Advisory Board, please visit https://ci.uky.edu/ci/nab.

Transformational Gifts The Impact of Giving by Nick Stacey (JOU ’10)

Scholarships Awarded: (2008) Dan Rather Broadcast Journalism Scholarship, (2009) Judith G. Clabes Scholarship, (2009) Senior Broadcast Major Award, (2009) Lt. Col. Charles Richardson DeSpain Scholarship Looking back at my years at the University of Kentucky, I am always amazed by the amount of help I needed, the amount of people willing to help and ultimately the amount of help I received.

Every year the College graciously gives students the opportunity to apply for and earn scholarships. Like many other students, I was apprehensive about applying. Excuses began formulating in my mind; I began doubting that my abilities and accomplishments would stack up against the competition. However, I forgot one thing—the support from the staff at the College. Their constant reminders and encouragement gave me the confidence I needed to take the time to apply for these scholarships.

Honestly, there were so many individuals involved I’m afraid I would leave someone out if I tried to name them all.

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In order to afford my education, I received financial aid in the form of student loans every year of my collegiate career until my senior year. Because of the encouragement, because I took the risk and took the time to read the requirements, fill out the paperwork and apply for these prestigious honors, I was rewarded with multiple scholarships from the college. This was a humbling experience for me. For one entire year I did not have to worry about paying for my education or watch my student loan debt pile up. The feeling was overwhelming.

The scholarships I received allowed me to focus on fixing other financial strains that weigh on a 22-year-old college student.

As for my postgraduate life, scholarships have allowed me to make a significant dent in my student loan repayment and not hinder me from being able to purchase other necessities.

I would encourage students, just as I was encouraged, to take that risk and spend the necessary time applying for any scholarship that they are eligible for. Be confident and you may have the honor of being rewarded like I was.

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Giving Honor Roll The College of Communication and Information appreciates the support shown for our students, faculty and programs through gifts from our alumni and friends.

This alphabetical list recognizes contributors from January I to December 31, 2013. Thank you for your support!

Ms. Jennifer T. Abreu Mr. Richard D. Adolph Ds Lewis and Phyllis Aileen-Donohew Ms. Amy Spatcher Akers Mr. David Alford Ms. Barbara L. Amick Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Amick Mr. David Brian Anderson Mrs. Kathryn C. Anderson Antidote, LLC Mr. Albert J. Arbogast III Mrs. Diane Archer Ms. Nancy L. Arn Mr. Kelly C. Ash Mr. Michael R. Averdick Mrs. Susan Philp Baier Mr. Rex L. Bailey Mrs. Martha T. Baker Ms. Bernadette J. Baldini Dr. Tracy V. Banks Mrs. Michelle P. Barbee Ms. Natalie W. Barker Dr. Beth E. Barnes Ms. Marcie L. Barnett Mrs. Meaghan Barnett Mr. David G. Baron Dr. Janet L. Barr Mrs. Aimee’ S. Baston Mr. Martin D. Bauer Mr. Joel W. Beane Mrs. Mary D. Becker Mrs. Nora R. Beger Ms. Mary Margaret Bell Ms. Phyllis A. Bergant Dr. Bruce K. Berger Mrs. Julie H. Berry Bertha LeBus Charitable Trust Ms. Mary Elise Biegert Mr. William S. Biles Mrs. Gabrielle B. Billings Mrs. Paula G. Billiter Dr. Terry and Janice Birdwhistell Mr. Todd Allen Bivins Mr. William C. Black Mr. William S. Blakeman Mr. Robert H. Blanchet Mr. Jay Blanton

Ms. Kathleen C. Bloom Mr. Terry R. Blythe Ms. Mary M. Boaz Mr. Adam Anthony Boettcher Ms. Debbie Bogenschutz Mrs. Virginia M. Bowden Ms. Judith A. Bowen The Bowling Family Foundation Mr. Robert E. Boyer Mr. Jack D. Brammer Mrs. Anita H. Brauch Ms. Amy B. Brennan Ms. Stacey L. Briel-Nerone Ms. Carol S. Brinkman The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc. Ms. Sharon E. Brock Mrs. Nancy A. Brooks Ms. Berttye S. Brown Col. Garnett C. Brown, Jr., USAF Ret. Brown-Forman Mr. John P. Bryant Mr. Patrick C. Buchanan, Jr. Mrs. Christa E. Bunnell Mr. John P. Burkhard Mrs. Malinda D. Burton Mr. Jonathan Busroe Mr. Granger H. Butler Mr. Jack L. Calbert Mrs. Elizabeth T. Campbell Albino A. Cantu Ms. Makenzie Leigh Carden Mr. Wayne R. Cardillo Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Carozza Mr. Dennis P. Carrigan Mr. Wayne J. Carroll Mrs. Mary J. Carter Ms. Mary J. Cartmell Mr. Greg Casey Mrs. Tabatha S. Casey Ms. Susan Lauren Castle Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Cawood Ms. Jennifer Chan Mr. Albert B. Chandler, Jr. Mrs. Jennifer Chandler Ms. Rebecca Vincent Chappell Charles G. Dickerson Trust Ms. Mary Chesnut

Ms. Janet M. Chisman Christian Appalachian Project Mr. Gene A. Clabes Clark Regional Foundation Mr. Donald K. Clark Mr. Thomas G. Clark Classic Real Estate Inc. Mrs. Genevieve J. Clay Mr. Joseph W. Clements The Cleveland Foundation Ms. Barbara C. Cleveland Mr. Nick Clooney Rev. Olivia M. Cloud Ms. Angela Cobb Mr. Kelly Cocanougher The Honorable Jennifer and Dr. Wesly Coffman Ms. Gretchen Geiser Colbert Coldfire Resources Ms. Patricia M. Collins Mr. Thomas A. Collins Mr. John L. Colmar Columbia Gas of Kentucky, Inc. Ms. Susan Combes Community Foundation of Louisville Mr. Spencer Paul Conco Mrs. Bobbi L. Conliffe Mrs. Barbara C. Cooney Ms. Tara L. Cooper Mrs. Kathryn R. Costello Dr. Gary S. Cox Mrs. Sarah W. Cox Ms. Kay Coyte Mr. Peter W. Craig Mrs. Karen S. Cramer Mrs. Thelma R. Creech Ms. Barbara P. Criswell Ms. Bethany Joan Croteau Mrs. Jeanne M. Crown Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cull Ms. Gwendolyn M. Culp Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Cummings Mr. Michael L. Cunningham Mrs. Toni J. Curtis Mrs. Jackie Allen Dahmane Mrs. Michele C. Daigle Mrs. Georgia R. De Araujo Mr. William J. De Bord Dr. and Mrs. John A. Deacon Ms. Jennifer J. Dellapina Ms. Liz Demoran Mr. Walter B. Dempsey Mr. Ralph W. Derickson Ms. Karen H. Deringer Mr. Gary W. Detraz Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas Ms. Julie A. Devereux

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Mrs. Shirley F. Dexter Mr. Raymond K. Dickinson Ms. Alice V. Dodd Mr. J. Patrick Donohew Ms. Agnes Donohue Mrs. Charlotte E. Dorton Mr. Nicholas S. Douglas Mrs. Stephanie D. Dowdy Mr. Mark H. Downer Ms. Margaret B. Doyle Ms. Kristin Elizabeth Dreasler Mr. Dave D. Drummond Dr. Margaret U. Dsilva Ms. Brenda G. Duff Ms. Janice L. Dumford Mr. Charles S. Duncan Mr. R. Michael Duncan Ms. Brenda K. Dutton Mrs. Scottye S. Eakin Ms. Patricia H. Earnest Ms. Carol L. Ebbinghouse Mrs. Angela L. Edwards Mr. Harry A. Ellington Mr. Charles J. Ellis Mr. Robert W. Ellis Ms. Nancy L. Eyerman Ms. Jennifer D. Fahling Ms. Jennifer K. Farland Dr. and Mrs. J. Michael Farrell Mr. Fredric E. Fedler Ms. Kathy D. Feinberg Mr. Richard J. Feindel Ms. Mary Sue Ferrell Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Mr. Joseph K. Fields Mr. Jerald A. Finch Ms. Mildred E. Finch Ms. Alice Ruth Finkelstein Mrs. Barbara A. Fischer Mrs. Judith K. Fischer Mr. Chris A. Fisher Dr. and Mrs. Philip D. Fitzgerald Ms. Sarah R. Fitzgerald Ms. Jacquelene P. Flaum Mr. Jon L. Fleischaker Mr. Paul W. Flowers Mrs. Mindy M. Foley Mr. Monty N. Foley Mr. and Mrs. C. Edward Ford Ms. Stacy Forsythe Mrs. Beverly A. Fortune Ms. Paula Fowler Ms. Kathyrn C. Franco Mrs. Frances W. Franklin Ms. Helen C. Franklin Mrs. Mildred L. Franks Ms. Theresa M. Fredericka Ms. Manae Y. Fujishiro Mr. Timothy A. Funderburk

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Mr. Dwight F. Gardner Mrs. Kristi Garrison Ms. Patricia Waldvogel Gayle GE Foundation Ms. Billie Ann Gebb Mr. Kevin Patrick Geisert Ms. Marilyn G. Genther Mr. J. Ronald Geoghegan Ms. Judith A. Gibbons Ms. Sandra S. Gillum Dr. Deborah Taylor Givens Professor Corban Goble Mrs. Caroline A. Godfrey Ms. Natalie A. Gohrband Mrs. Melanie A. Golder Mr. Walt Gorin Mrs. Priscilla P. Gotsick Ms. Sue Ellen Grannis Ms. Sara E. Grant Mr. William R. Grant Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gray Ms. Elaine Gray Ms. Sheera Gefer Greenberg Ms. Karen Greever Ms. Antoinette P. Greider Mr. John R. Guthrie Mr. Vernon P. Hackworth Mrs. Mildred E. Haddix Ms. Jacquie Hager Mrs. Sharon G. Haines Ms. Gracie Hale Mr. Jon A. Hale Mrs. Joy B. Haley Mr. Aaron O. Hall Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hall Dr. Michael H. Hall Mr. Ronald G. Hall Mr. Thomas L. Hall Mr. Ty Halpin Mrs. Susan E. Hamburg Mrs. Elizabeth Hames Mr. Evan I. Hammonds Mr. Joseph E. Hamrick Ms. Shannon Lally Hanington Mr. Charles Hanna Mrs. Nicole L. Hanna Mrs. Anne W. Hansen Mr. Richard H. Hansen Mr. Nicholas Lee Hantle Mr. James E. Harper Dr. Nancy G. Harrington Ms. Ashlee Harris Mr. Charles K. Harris Mrs. Jennifer Johnson Harrod Mr. Christopher Hart Mrs. Phyllis A. Hartman Mr. Dean E. Harvey Mr. C. Edward Hastie Mr. Terry L. Hawkins Mr. David V. Hawpe Mr. and Mrs. Tim Hayden Mr. Andrew Tod Heckaman Mr. Edwin C. Hendrick

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Mr. John D. Henry Mr. Chuck Henson Ms. Mary Twitchell Herdelin Mrs. Regina D. Herman Ms. Judith K. Herrick Ms. Alisha Ann Hewlett Miss Susan Snyder Hight Ms. Kelsey Alexandra Hill Mrs. Mary L. Hilton Mrs. Vicki T. Hinkel Mrs. Christina M. Hisle David A. & Mary Alice Holt Mrs. Sharon C. Homchick Ms. Nancy Hopkins Ms. Marilyn W. Horacek Mr. Michael A. Horlander Ms. Mary E. Horne Mr. and Mrs. W. James Host Mr. John P. Hourigan Ms. Katherine A. Howard Mr. Steven R. Howe Mr. Christopher H. Hu Ms. Hannah Huggins Mrs. Jacqueline Humes Ms. Cathy S. Hunt Colonel Kenneth J. Hurst Mr. Gilbert A. Hurwood Mr. David P. Hutcheson Ms. Carol Iglauer Mrs. Robyn N. Iler Mr. Brian K. Inman Investors Heritage Life Insurance Co. Mr. John W. Ireland, Jr. Mrs. Sandra B. Ireland Mr. Steve K. Ivey Mr. Robert J. Jabaily Mrs. Janet C. Jackson Mr. Avery T. Jenkins Ms. Melody S. Jenkins Mrs. Pamela D. Jennings Ms. Kirsten E. Johnson Mrs. Linda S. Jones Mrs. Ramona V. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Greg L. Jones Maj. Mickey Jordan Mr. Tim D. Jordan Mrs. Chela R. Kaplan Mr. Jacob L. Karnes, Jr. Mr. James F. Kastner Ms. Emily Beth Kean Mr. William L. Keesler Col. Arthur L. Kelly, Ret. Mrs. Gail A. Kennedy Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Kentucky Hospital Research and Education Foundation Ms. Judith L. Kerchner Ms. Gayle Keresey Mr. Hammad Mustafa Khan Ms. Michelle R. King Mrs. Becky E. Kinser

Mrs. Megan N. Kinsey Mrs. Mary Jean Kinsman Mrs. Katie S. Kirk Ms. Lalah C. Kline Mr. Charles G. Kocher Mrs. Carolyn J. Konnert Mr. George D. Koper Mrs. Elizabeth G. Kraemer Mr. Loren W. Kramer Mrs. Anne Y. Krampe Ms. Katherine Kreider-Greifenkamp Mrs. Margarett N. Kunz Mrs. Clara K. Ladd Ms. M. Susan Lafever Mrs. Carolyn E. Landis Dr. Derek R. Lane Mrs. Lowena B. Latiff Mr. Tevis W. Laudeman, Jr. Mrs. Diane H. Lecroy Dr. Patrick Leddin Lee Foundation The Honorable and Mrs. Joe Lee Ms. Stephanie J. Leedy Ms. Hilda Gay Legg Dr. Gregory B. Leichty Mrs. Leslie D. Lenz Mrs. Glen-Ellyn Lewis Ms. Margaret A. Lewis Mr. Dan M. Liebman Lincoln Financial Management, LLC Ms. Miriam H. Lindner Ms. Teresa H. Lippincott Mr. John T. Little Mr. Paul M. Logsdon Ms. Marilyn A. Logue Mrs. Cynthia L. Lopuszynski Ms. Jamie D. Lucke Mrs. Margaret A. Maddox Mrs. Carol B. Major Ms. May L. Man Mr. Robert Camp and Mr. Michael C. Mankins Ms. Deanna Hudson Marcum Mrs. Kara R. Marino Mrs. Kathleen G. Mark Ms. Alice L. Marksberry Mr. Bradley A. Martin Ms. Deborah A. Martin-Herrell Mrs. Laura C. Mason Ms. Diane M. Massie Mr. J. Patrick Mathes Mr. Dayton H. Matlick Mr. Brett James Maurer Mr. Littleton M. Maxwell Mrs. Annette P. Mayer Mr. Glen A. McAninch Mr. Greg McCarty Mrs. Laura E. McDaniels Ms. Patricia A. McDowell Mrs. Catherine McGee

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Mrs. Carolyn S. Parsons Patrick D. Mutchler Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Mr. W. Lawrence Patrick Ms. Karen P. Paxton Mrs. Peggy S. Paxton Mrs. Lenee’ W. Peach Mr. Frederic C. Pearson Mrs. Cheryl Penava Mr. J. Gabriel Pendleton Ms. Henrietta Pepper Mrs. Rhoda L. Perkins-Boyer Mr. David S. Perry Ms. Marilyn L. Pet Pfizer, Inc. Mrs. Julia D. Pickard Mr. J. Michael Pocock Mr. O. Leonard Press Ms. Bonita J. Preston Mrs. Myra R. Prewitt Mr. and Mrs. John L. Price Ms. Marjorie D. Price Ms. Sandra J. Price The Public Life Foundation of Owensboro Mrs. Geneva B. Pullen Ms. Lois A. Pulliam Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin J. Purcell Mrs. Kim H. Quinn Mrs. Suzanne Raeside Ms. Jill Burket Ragase Mrs. Lini S. Kadaba Rajagopalan Mrs. Glenda Ralston Mrs. Elinor E. Rambo Ms. Cathy Rand Mrs. Barbara L. Ransler Mr. Bruce E. Raque Mr. Roland J. Ratliff III Dr. Gerald E. Raybeck Mr. Stuart A. Reagan Mr. Matthew Joseph Reams Ms. Bonnie S. Reed Mrs. Mary R. Reed Dr. James William Renfroe Mr. Robert Rettig Ms. Rusty R. Reynolds Mrs. Linda K. Rice Mr. William Russell Rice Mr. Henry H. Richards III Mr. Gregory W. Rickert Mrs. Dorothy S. Ridings Ms. Michele D. Ripley Ms. Sally A. Rizer Mr. Randall L. Roberts Mrs. Marie S. Robertson Mr. Kenneth E. Robinson Mr. Thomas Robinson Mr. Tom Rollins

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How to Give We need you as a partner to accomplish our goal of becoming a national leader at the undergraduate and graduate levels among public research universities in the fields of Communication, Journalism, Integrated Strategic Communication, Media Arts and Studies (formerly Telecommunications), and Library and Information Science. Your gifts, along with contributions from corporations and foundations, allow us to increase scholarship support and awards, faculty and research, technology and capital improvements, and community partnerships that cannot be funded by the state and tuition support alone.

WAYS TO GIVE • Monetary: A gift made to the College of Communication and Information via check or credit card.

• Giving Online: Use our secure online giving form to make a pledge or give by credit card. www.uky.edu/GiveNow/welcome.htm?select=CI • Stocks, Bonds and Mutual Funds: Gifts of appreciated assets can be made by instructing your broker or banker to transfer the securities to the University of Kentucky. www.uky.edu/Development/difference/ plannedgifts/securities.htm •

Gifts of Insurance: All forms of insurance are accepted as gifts. When you specify the University of Kentucky as the owner and beneficiary of a paid up policy, the charitable deduction is for the policy’s cash surrender value or net premium paid on the policy, whichever is less. The University may elect to liquidate life insurance policies and evaluates each policy on a case-by-case basis.

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Gift-In-Kind: You may donate items of value to the College of Communication and Information such as art, real estate, coin collections, gems/jewelry, books, stamp collections, equipment, and certain publicly traded securities.

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Planned Giving: A will bequest to the College is another way to provide an estate gift. The University of Kentucky has established the Society of 1865 to recognize donors for their contributions to the University via provisions in their wills.

If you are interested in learning more about giving, please visit the Office of Development website. www.uky.edu/Development/welcome.htm.

Or contact the CI Director of Development 859-218-0290 or email Janice Birdwhistell, CI Chief of Staff at janice.bird@uky.edu

For nearly 150 years, students have come to the University of Kentucky seeking an education and a promising future. Today, it often takes scholarship assistance to make those dreams come true.

Through gift and estate planning, there are a variety of ways to help young men and women achieve their goals in the College of Communication and Information. With a bequest, gift annuity or charitable trust, you can leave a legacy, open doors of opportunity and change lives.

Logan Sparks CI ’13

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For more information on planned giving options, contact the University of Kentucky Office of Gift and Estate Planning.

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Class Notes Price Atkinson (’97)

is the director of communications and development at the Energy and Enterprise Initiative based at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He joined the Initiative in December 2012.

Stephanie Warrix (’98)

is the social media marketing and information resources manager at Pediatric Associates of Pikeville in Pikeville, Ky.

Judy Lester Brown (‘55)

published her first book, Six Legs and a Leash: Stories of a Therapy Dog. She also worked as a feature writer for two daily newspapers, vice president of marketing for Greenfield Bank, and published articles in several magazines as a freelance writer.

Ken Hill (’58) is publisher of Sports Hotline in Marion, Ind.

Lee B. Becker (’69/’71), pictured above, received the Deutschmann Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in August.

Brian Smith (’07)

is a statewide education and courts reporter in Holt, Mich.

Brad Arterburn (’08)

received the 2013 Kentucky State Police Public Affairs Officer of the Year Award.

Andrew McGraw (’09)

LeAnders Jones (’99)

is a sous-chef and co-wrote a cookbook, The Historic Kentucky Kitchen: Traditional Recipes for Today’s Cook, published by the University Press of Kentucky.

Amanda Polley Brajuha (’01)

is a marketing specialist at LD Management in Gahanna, Ohio.

is an attorney with Frost Brown Todd LLC in Louisville, Ky. is a stewardship coordinator at Penn State University.

Jeremy Jarvi (’02) was named

one of Louisville’s “New Faces of Philanthropy” for 2013, and is the 2013 recipient of the UK Alumni Association’s Joseph T. Burch Young Alumni Award.

Greg Casey (’04)

is the development director for University of Kentucky Libraries.

Megan Gadd (’10)

Kyle Heavrin (’10)

is the commercial accounts and economic development manager for Kynergy Corp. in Owensboro, Ky.

Brooke Snelton (’10)

is a strategist on the Walgreen’s account at OMD in Province, Ill.

Ashley Westerman (’10)

is a host/reporter for NPR member station 89.3 WKRF in Baton Rouge, La.

Chad Clark (’04)

is the director of student engagement at the University of Alabama.

Ashley Jackson (’11) is an English language arts teacher at Ranson I.B. Middle School in Raleigh, N.C.

Communications, a media brokerage firm in Maryland. He was named the Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Tennessee where he completed his master’s degree.

Robyn Walton (’05)

Bradford Queen (’11)

Nolan W. ‘Kit’ Carson (’76)

Adam Sichko (’06) is a reporter for Albany Business Review in Albany, N.Y.

W. Lawrence (Larry) Patrick (‘72) owns Patrick

is director of The People’s Court in Stamford, Conn.

Dan Liebman (’85)

was named editor of the Kentucky State Journal in Frankfort, Ky.

Terry Hapney Jr (’94)

is an associate professor of public relations in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University, and was named the West Virginia Public Relations Educator of the Year by the AmericaWest Virginia Chapter of PRSA.

is the senior marketing coordinator for McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture in Greenville, S.C.

Carolyn Wasky (’06)

is marketing manager for MoreDirect Inc. in Nashville, Tenn.

Farra Franklin (’07)

is a support associate at the Boone County Cooperative Extension Service in Fort Thomas, Ky.

J.D. Shelburne (’07)

released his first extended-play CD, a six-song production which includes his newest single, Farmboy.

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is the director of civics and deputy director of communications for the Kentucky Secretary of State’s Office in Frankfort, Ky.

Evan Gorman (’12)

is a local government planner for the Green River Area Development District in Owensboro, Ky.

Amanda Laborio (’12)

is the print/ooh media buyer for Right Place Media in Lexington, Ky. View more CI alumni news at https://ci.uky.edu/ci/alumni-news.

Update us on your career!

Email janice.bird@uky.edu, or use the electronic form on our web page https://ci.uky.edu/ci/alumni-update.

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2012–2013 College Excellence Awards

GO CATS!

By Melissa Patrick

Outstanding Staff Award

Matthew Cockerell

Faculty Research Award

Elisia Cohen

Faculty Community Service Award Regina Francies

Graduate Teaching Excellence Award Renee Kaufmann

Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Brandi Frisby

Friend of the College

Don Jacobs

Outstanding Alumnus Award Michael Carozza (1977)

2013–2014 College Excellence Awards Outstanding Staff Award

June Horn, Mary Ann Nestmann, Amy Triana

Drew Bewley White

Degree: B.A. Journalism, 2009, University of Kentucky Profession: Editor in Chief of The Cheer Leader Magazine Sport while at UK: Varsity Squad Cheerleader, 2005–2009 Favorite UK Memory: Winning three national titles at the UCA National College Cheerleading Championships Story of Success: Drew Bewley White knew that she wanted to stay involved with cheerleading after graduation and also knew that someday she and her sister wanted to start a cheerleading magazine. What she didn’t know was that it would happen so quickly. White and her sister Jamie Bewley Byrd, co-owner and publisher, created The Cheer Leader Magazine in August 2009, three months after Drew graduated. The first edition was published in December and by January 2010, 25,000 copies were distributed across the United States. They are now going into their fourth year, publishing five issues a year with an average distribution rate of 15,000 copies. They have 142,000 followers on Facebook. The magazine features spotlights and stories from cheerleaders all across the country. Said White, “We started from scratch and took a chance. It has blown up and is going great.”

Faculty Research Award

Brandi Frisby, Allison Scott, Shari Veil

Faculty Community Service Award Chike Anyaegbunam

Graduate Teaching Excellence Award Bethney Wilson, Laura Young

Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Anthony Limperos, Cyndy Harbett Miller, Allison Scott

Friend of the College

Alan Stein

Outstanding Alumnus Award Jennifer Coffman (1977) Steven Newberry (1984)

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Kelly Williams

Degree: B.S. Communication, 2003, University of Kentucky Profession: Club Manager/Membership Director, Greenbrier Golf and Country Club, Lexington, Ky. Sport while at UK: Golf, 1999–2003 Favorite UK Memory: Meeting his now wife at UK while attending Midnight Madness Story of Success: When Kelly Williams was a student at UK, he also worked full-time at the Greenbrier Golf and Country Club. Ten years after graduation, he is not only still working there, but is one of the youngest general managers in a golf club anywhere. In February 2013, Williams was awarded the KPGA Golf Professional of the Year. This is the highest honor the KPGA can bestow on a working club Professional whose total contributions to the game best exemplify the complete PGA professional. Selection for this honor is based on the sum of all of Williams’ accomplishments, including encouraging PGA Professionals in Kentucky to get involved with two important PGA initiatives: PGA Golf Day and PGA Junior League Golf, of which he has recently started a team.

An Anniversary Worth Remembering

20 Years and Counting

With UK President Eli Capilouto calling for universitywide growth and expansion, the College of Communication and Information (CI) has more than risen to the occasion.

In the past year alone, CI experienced 46 percent growth in total college enrollment, making it one of the fastest growing colleges at the University of Kentucky.

While the focus remains on the future, it is important to pause and reflect on the past. During the 2013–2014 academic year, the College is celebrated 20 years of educational service and research excellence.

“Just twenty years?” you may say. Well, 20 plus a few centuries.

The history of the College can be traced back to the 1890s, when the first journalism, telecommunications and library science courses were offered to students at the University of Kentucky. In the years that followed, the College of Communications and the College of Library and Information Science were independently formed, offering specific coursework for students in their respective career paths.

By Stephen West

In 1994, Thomas Waldhart, then director of the School of Library and Information Science, told the Communi-K faculty and staff newspaper. “There is a close relationship between communication and library and information science because you can’t communicate without information.”

With the University as a whole on the brink of modification, the merger proved beneficial to the future success of all programs. It marked the birth of a new era within the College, paving the way for even brighter and educationally sound opportunities for students.

Boyd, who assumed the role of the first dean of the College of Communications and Information Studies, once said, “Expressions such as ‘the information society’ and the ‘information-oriented world’ have perhaps been overused. However, we in the new College believe that these expressions reflect the kinds of changes occurring

It was not until 1993 that the two colleges embraced a marriage between communication and information. Under the leadership of Dean Douglas A. Boyd (Communications) and Dean Thomas Waldhart (Library and Information Science) the faculties, Chancellor Hemingway, and President Wethington, and the UK Board of Trustees voted favorably to approve the merger between the two colleges.

“Initiated in response to President Wethington’s call for realignment and restructuring during a time of budget reductions, Boyd and Waldhart insisted that the merger was first and foremost for intellectual and programmatic reasons.

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There is a close relationship between communication and library and information science because you can’t communicate without information.

in our society. Changes that our new College is positioned to address in the coming century.”

The merger provided an opportunity to improve both units’ visibility within the campus, expand academic influence, and reaffirm the University’s commitment to library and information science.

Now, 20 years later, the unified College and its many achievements serve as a testament to that belief. Offering four undergraduate degrees (and another on the way), four minors including one completely online, and three graduate degrees, CI has grown, to say the least.

In order to honor its continued excellence and growth, the College has planned numerous celebratory events during the 2013–2014 academic year. Whether for students, faculty, parents, or alumni, these events represent the College’s appreciation for the dedication, hard work and pride we have in our programs, and our faculty, students, staff, and alumni.

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The first event was the student “Eat and Greet” in October. Students and faculty joined together in the courtyard outside the Grehan Journalism Building for a brisk, yet much enjoyed cookout. The afternoon provided an opportunity to celebrate the College’s anniversary as well as free food between classes.

Current and prospective students were invited to learn more about CI student organizations and encouraged to take advantage of various opportunities across the College, not just within their major.

Following the cookout, Dean Dan O’Hair hand-delivered cupcakes to several classes in the College so they too could be part of the celebration. “I’m proud of our students,” said O’Hair. “And I want them to take pride in being part of the College of Communication and Information.”

The 2013–14 College Awards Dinner refocused its program on faculty, staff and alumni. On November 8 at Spindletop Hall, nearly 100 friends and colleagues attended the celebration. In addition to the annual presentation of awards, O’Hair

welcomed Timothy Sineath (former dean and director of the School of Library and Information Science) and Douglas Boyd (first dean of the College of Communications and Information Studies) to make remarks on the merger. A video montage summarized past growth and the boundless possibilities for CI’s future. Faculty, staff, alumni and friends were appreciative for the reminder of the college’s historical achievements and continuing excellence.

For additional information about the College anniversary events, please contact the Dean’s Office, at 859.218.0290.

The spring semester will culminate in a Collegewide student scholarship recognition event. The College will welcome all scholarship recipients, their families, and the generous donors who help make such opportunities available, onto campus to appropriately honor their accomplishments.

Establishing the connection between the donor and student is important to understanding the true impact of such transformational gifts.

P. 15 Students in line at Eat & Greet Cookout

While being an influence for over a century, the last 20 years have been a remarkable time of growth for the College of Communication and Information. With new programs and offerings on the agenda, there’s no doubt that the next 20 years will see even greater success.

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A full version of the 20th anniversary video montage is available at ci.uky.edu/ci/20th-anniversary.

Photography:

P. 16 From Top Left Doug Boyd remarks on anniversary at Awards Dinner.

Tim Sineath at Anniversary Awards Dinner.

Dean Dan O’Hair emceeing the Anniversary Awards Dinner program.

Students sign up for CI organizations at Eat & Greet.

Dean O’Hair delivering cupcakes to classrooms to celebrate the College’s 20th anniversary.

Outstanding Alumnus recipients, Judge Jennifer B. Coffman and Steven W. Newberry with Dean O’Hair.

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For the Common Good It is no coincidence that the words Communication and Community stem from the same root—communis, which means common, public, general. Perhaps none know this better than the faculty of the UK’s College of Communication and Information.

Led by Dean H. Dan O’Hair, CI professors are all about connecting with the community from local to global in ways that touch people’s lives where they live and about issues with which they deal on a daily basis, be it foodborne illness, cancer or video games.

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imothy Sellnow, associate dean of the College’s graduate program in communication, understands that communication is inherently risky which is why his work focuses on clear and effective transmission of messages in times of crisis. Sellnow and Shari Veil are both research faulty in the Risk Science Division, which couples theory with state-of-the-art technology to bring together researchers from various disciplines to conduct practical and applied research about managing risks and crises.

Much of Sellnow’s recent work has been with the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD). Aware that foodborne illness affects roughly one in six Americans annually, resulting in 3,000 deaths a year, the Division’s researchers work to find ways not only that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can better educate the public about food preparation to avoid illness, but also work with the food industry to manage their communications in the midst of an illness outbreak. This could mean contaminated lettuce that for whatever reason has become harmful either at the source, in transit or in processing, or it could mean intentional tampering with the food supply in an act of domestic terrorism, international terrorism, or both.

For organizations in crisis, Sellnow has adapted the NCFPD best practices list of 11 steps ranging from responding promptly to establishing beforehand open lines

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Faculty Work to better Community’s Health and Wellbeing

BY Lesley Cissel

of communication with the public, officials and media to acknowledging and accounting for cultural differences.

In addition, Sellnow and two of his former doctoral students, Kathryn Anthony and Alyssa Sloan, have recently published a series of articles advancing the theory of risk communication. The three have developed a theory that accounts for multiple messages individuals receive about complex risk issues and situations. Their research explains how individuals reconcile these competing messages and decide how best to protect themselves from risks.

Veil, as director of the Division of Risk Sciences, has recently received a grant from the Natural Hazards Center in Colorado to take a unique approach to crisis communicationlibraries. Essentially, Veil’s work focuses on the importance of public libraries during emergencies and recovery in terms of information dissemination in an effort to make the community stronger and more capable of bouncing back.

Libraries, as Veil points out, give access to the internet, store massive amounts of information, and furnish places for the community to meet in their efforts to return to normal life.

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here’s nothing normal about some of the places Mel Coffee travels for his mass media research into radio, television and digital communication, places like Zambia and Botswana in Africa.

The College’s School of Journalism and Telecommunications established a partnership in 2008 with the Zambia Institute of Mass Communication Educational Trust. The project is focused on using journalism to improve education on HIV and AIDS. Funding comes from PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.

Coffee and Chike Anyaegbunam are among a group of six faculty members and one staff member from the

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New Directions School of Journalism and Telecommunications working on dimensions of the project. HIV and AIDS has been around for so long in Africa that some journalists want to move on to other topics, but the public, especially in rural communities, still needs the information.

Coffee and Anyaegbunam’s work involves conducting a series of workshops for community radio stations, community television personnel and health organizations.

UK professors work especially with local news outlets like community radio stations to help them communicate accurately and effectively “to make sure the voices of the community are being reflected in the area of HIV and AIDS,” said Anyaegbunam.

on using ambient sound to make reports more appealing to listeners, and is concerned with journalists reporting what they experience so that the listener can experience it too.

Anyaegbunam is also director of the Dissemination and Implementation Science Consortium. Among other projects, he’s focused on helping American Samoa deal with a deadly mosquito and its transmission of lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis, a chronic illness caused by a parasite, which leads to enlargement of parts of the lower body like legs, feet and genitals. The disease attacks the lymphatic system and other internal organs, and affects millions of people worldwide.

The problem in areas like American Samoa is that decades of massive drug administration has not been effective in stopping disease transmission. A number of factors contribute to this failure, and world health officials are considering introducing additional therapies in conjunction with massive drug administration to counter the infecting parasite. It will do no good, however, if the population of American Samoa doesn’t know about it, doesn’t have a hand in administering it and/or doesn’t agree to it. That’s where Anyaegbunam comes in. His communication efforts deal with learning from and involving the community in any potential treatment or cure.

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One of the first rules of journalism is to localize a global news story whenever possible. Coffee and Anyaegbunam borrowed from a Kentucky localization for their work with Zambian radio stations. They patterned their training approach on work done in Appalachia by Appalshop, in which rural Kentucky residents chronicled their experiences and struggles with diabetes. The workshops Coffee and Anyaegbunam run teach storytelling skills that empower people living with HIV and AIDS and the community healthcare workers who support them to share their stories over the radio.

Coffee’s past work in Zambia led to a Fulbright Specialist appointment in Fall 2013. As a Fulbright Specialist, he spent six weeks working with ZNBC, Zambia’s national news broadcast organization. He retrained journalists in news production to help bring the organization up to international news standards.

Coffee knows what he’s talking about when it comes to news broadcasts. He’s an Emmy winner who understands the importance of “writing to the five senses.” He’s done work

l Cross is a UK Extension professor and director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.

As his title implies, he, like Anyaegbunam, understands the rural population and is especially concerned with the health of rural politics and the rural communities.

“Kentucky,” said Cross, “is, relatively speaking, a sickly state.” He cites the commonwealth’s high rates of smoking, obesity, toothlessness, heart disease, and cancer. Part of the Institute’s efforts is to get more information about health into the state media. Kentucky Health News (KHN) is a service that collects health-related stories from around the state and makes them accessible to the news media.

KHN also does original reporting on things like the Affordable Healthcare Act and its Kentucky network, efforts to make better, more local food available in schools, and ways to stop smoking. One of the important extensions of KHN reporting is access to and interest in information about health disparities in terms of community health and access to care among the various counties in Kentucky.

Cross and his Institute are working to make rural journalism better, in part through The Rural Blog which is updated daily.

The Institute’s efforts to improve computer-assisted reporting in workshops have had positive effects far beyond the state’s border. A reporter from West Virginia, for example, returned

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home from a workshop feeling she could finally write the stories she’d longed to now that she had the proper tools.

Cross has taken his teaching to other countries, as well, as part of the School of Journalism and Telecommunications’ efforts. When the governments of Zambia and Botswana became increasingly antagonistic to their national media, Cross took his message of open government and free press to both African nations.

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ross is not the only College professor interested with Kentucky’s health.

That is a major focus of the research conducted

by Department of Communication Chair Elisia Cohen. Cohen is also the director of the Health Communication Research Collaborative.

Her specializations are health communication and mass media coverage of health issues, especially cancer.

As a Markey Cancer Center faculty associate, Cohen focuses her work primarily on women’s cancers like cervical cancer. Her most recent research involves ways in which clinics in underserved areas could better communicate with women and parents of teenage girls to more effectively prevent cancer of the cervix. Her study particularly focuses on follow-up care and the communication strategies healthcare providers use, either effectively or ineffectively, when continuing to care for patients.

Cohen is the principal investigator on another study conducted in conjunction with pharmaceutical giant Merck on ways to improve the rate of teenage vaccinations in Kentucky, specifically related to HPV and meningitis. She also serves as an independent consultant on a study of how to effectively use social media to communicate health information.

Cohen is also the editor of the International Communication Association Yearbook. The Yearbook publishes up-to-date literature reviews and essays that are both international and interdisciplinary.

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he work of Stephanie Reynolds may not be focused on teenage vaccines, but it is on teenagers, particularly teenage readers. Reynolds is the director of The McConnell Center for the Study of Youth Literature in the College’s School of Library and Information Science. The Center is a teaching and research resource for UK students, faculty and researchers, as well as public librarians, school librarians, teachers, parents, child care providers, authors and illustrators.

Both current and historical publications are collected for the Center’s non-circulating collection of the best of children’s and young adult literature. In addition to various topical and categorical collections, the Center hosts an annual Youth Literature Conference for all interested in and producers of books and periodicals for Kentucky’s residents under 18.

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eborah S. Chung’s work is also focused on a relatively youthful form of communication—online newspapers.

“Interactive Features of Online Newspapers: Identifying Patterns and Predicting Use of Engaged Readers” is one of the journalism professor’s studies of an online Midwestern newspaper. The point was to determine what kind of online readers were attracted by and made use of interactive two-way communication tools. She found that online publications didn’t need to employ all sorts of new bells and whistles when it came to interactive features; what they needed, like all news organizations, was credibility.

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n engaged, interactive online consumer is precisely what Anthony Limperos studies—the one who plays video games, to be precise. Limperos is particularly interested in the psychology of video games and how gaming is or can be used in communication. One question he asks is: “Do new technologies bring about new gratifications?”

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In a recent study, the new technology allows for users to customize their speed in a racing video. In this case common wisdom prevails and the results indicate natural controls and customization features enhance a user’s enjoyment of the game.

Limperos is just beginning to study video gaming effects, trends and their relationship to theories of communication. He’s finding a wide open field of research not only useful for game designers who learn from him, for example, that narrative plays a big part in consumer enjoyment of the gaming experience, but also for the community who can use video games to exercise or “fun-ercise” their way to better health.

21st Century Communication Skills Summer Academy for Success in the Workplace and Classroom

Employers want it. Teachers know it.

We all need it. Forbes Magazine announces it.

The faculty of the College of Communication and Information are dedicated to their mission of improving people’s lives through excellence in research, service, and education and training for undergraduate and graduate students in the multicultural, multiethnic global society of the information age. In so doing, they create and disseminate effective communication messages, which benefit the common good each and every day.

Lesley Cissell is a graduate of the College of Communication and Information and the College of Arts and Sciences, with degrees in Journalism and English. She is currently the associate news editor for KyForward.com, an online newspaper.

The College has experienced a great deal of success with both extramural and internal funding to support our faculty and their research. The College’s Office of Research works closely with faculty members to assist them in obtaining grants and with all pre-award and post-award grant activities. The Office sponsors topical workshops each fall and spring semester.

Research seminars are also scheduled on a regular basis each semester that feature presentations by CI faculty members.

So what exactly is “it?” It is “The 10 Skills that will get You Hired,” offered as a weeklong workshop for business and education professionals by the College’s CI Consulting group. Following the skills identified by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the Summer Academy for Success in the Workplace and Classroom is a unique opportunity for a shared learning experience during the week of June 23–27, 2014. Topics include Teamwork and Decision Making, Effective Formal and Informal Communication, Multimodal Presentations for the 21st Century, Information Literacy, and Social Media: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. The summer academy will prepare professionals to integrate 21st century communication and information skills into discipline-specific professions.

Deadline to register is May 15, 2014. For additional information or questions about the summer academy, please contact Sarah Kercsmar at sarah.kercsmar@uky.edu or 859-257-9589. For information on earning college credits contact Deanna Sellnow at deanna.sellnow@uky.edu or 859-257-2886.

For a list of faculty researchers at the College visit: http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/RESEARCH/index.php

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of Journalism and Telecommunications completed the forcredit internship offered by the school while additional students completed internships for experiential (EXP) credit.

CI Success

By Melissa Patrick

Success in the College can also be attributed to expansive study abroad opportunities. The College works diligently toward making more and more courses available for all CI students.

The College of Communication and Information is one of the fastest growing colleges at the University of Kentucky.

Between fall semesters 2008 and 2013 the College grew 31.07 percent, serving 14,042 students in the fall 2012 semester.

As impressive as these statistics are, success in the College is measured not only by growth but also by student success.

Working toward success is a deliberate and intentional process.

Hands-On Learning

Participation in internships is one measure of student success. To help students find internship opportunities, the College offers an annual internship and job fair with close to 40 organizations participating. And while internships are required for most majors in the College, they are often done voluntarily in the majors that do not require them.

The internship and job fair pays off as College statistics report 50 percent of declared communication majors participated in professional internships in the 2012–2013 academic year.

During that same academic year 187 students in the School

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“We have more places that want our students as interns than we have students available to take them,” said Beth Barnes, director of the School of Journalism and Telecommunications “That to me is an indication of how well our college equips students with skills that make them in high demand after graduation.”

CI faculty are also eager to participate in study abroad. This year, faculty members are planning on teaching seven courses— nearly double the number from the previous academic year.

Planned offerings include a winter intersession Integrated Strategic Communication (ISC) course in London taught

by Barnes and Alyssa Eckman and summer courses in Shanghai, China (Buck Ryan, Journalism); Cape Town, South Africa (Barnes, ISC); London, England (Matthew Deffendall, COM); Dublin, Ireland (Shari Veil, COM).

“For UK as a whole, 10.9 percent of the 2013 graduates had an education abroad experience. For our College, it was 15.3 percent,” Barnes said, who is also executive director of CI’s International Studies. “Increasingly, graduates of our college are going to work for firms that either have offices in multiple countries or sell their products and services both in the U.S. and abroad. Having an international experience in college makes our students much more attractive as employees. Equally important, studying abroad helps students gain in independence and gives them the opportunity to see just how much we have in common with people in other parts of the world.”

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Student success is a life cycle that hinges on student-centered programs.

Recruitment and Retention

Improvements in recruitment and retention translate directly to student success. The College adjusted undergraduate GPA requirements this past year to a minimum 2.0 GPA and prerequisites completed for admission to any of its schools/ departments. This put the College more closely in line with most other undergraduate degree programs at UK. “Current data suggest that the reduction in GPA is not reducing the quality of students in the College,” said Derek Lane, senior associate dean for Student Success and Administrative Affairs.

The College also excels at getting students to commit to their chosen program as freshmen. This allows them time to spread out their curriculum requirements, develop connections within a student organization earlier, study abroad, and complete internships.

Not only is it important for students to come to CI as freshmen, it is also important to retain these freshmen from first to second year. The College showed 80.7 percent retention of freshmen from their first semester to their second semester during the 2012–2013 academic year.

Much of this success is attributed to the College’s professional advisors, who according to Dean Dan O’Hair are the “best on campus.”

The creation of a retention and recruitment coordinator position cemented the College’s commitment to attracting and keeping top-notch students.

Regina Francies, the new Recruitment, Retention and Outreach coordinator, has a simple philosophy: Student success is a life cycle that hinges on student-centered programs.

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Living Learning Communities Important for Student Success

Next year at this time, the College will have two Living Learning Communities (LLC)—the iNET Entrepreneurial Studies LLC and CI Connect LLC—and they will share the third floor of the new Champions Court I residence hall on north campus.

“As the coordinator, I am in the business of serving students and their needs,” Francies said. “It’s our job to provide a great pre-college experience, involve the parents, recruit students, provide resources, actively retain students and encourage alumni involvement. These initiatives will help students successfully graduate in four years.”

There is also a lot to be said for the quality of the student experience. The success of the College is personified by Rachel Aretakis, senior Journalism student and editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Kernel. Aretakis has taken advantage of the many opportunities the College offers to help students succeed.

“The College has been very flexible,” Aretakis said.

“They have allowed me to work at the Kentucky Kernel, study abroad and do an internship, all while I have been a student. It’s been a great experience.”

Through innovative efforts, the College of Communication and Information is proving it is dedicated to smart growth that places student success as a top priority.

“I am certain we are the right College, at the right place, at the right time,” said O’Hair.

“With unbounded talent, enthusiasm and passion for excellence, we are the enviable role model for academic excellence at UK.” Please Note: All statistics in this article were obtained from the UK Hana server.

The Living Learning Program, celebrating its 25th year on campus in fall 2014, offers freshmen a dynamic, integrated academic residential experience with specialized programming, interactions with UK faculty and staff, and a supportive community that focuses on student success.

This is the inaugural year for the iNET LLC, designed for students to learn skills to apply entrepreneurial thinking, build professional networks, and gain real world experience.

Currently located in Patterson Hall, the community includes 20 freshmen from 16 majors and six colleges, including one international student, and an upperclassman peer mentor.

Special programs are provided by iNET Academic Director and CI Senior Associate Dean for Student Success and Administrative Affairs Derek Lane, iNET Entrepreneur in Residence Brian Raney, and other iNET entrepreneurial partners both on and off campus. Next year, students will take two connected courses in the Champions Court I classroom taught by Lane and Raney. All LLC activities are coordinated by iNET Director Deb Weis.

The CI Connect LLC will provide programs that highlight internships and career options, strategic partnerships with professionals in the field, interaction with CI faculty and staff, academic support for technological software related to their major, and on-site courses that foster interdisciplinary learning from the College.

Communications Professor Alan DeSantis will be the academic director for the CI community, which will accept 23 freshmen and include an upperclassman peer mentor.

“CI Connect will offer opportunities for early registration, small connected courses that are relevant to their major, access to senior faculty, and experiences that allow them to connect with peers and mentors and build life-long friendships,” said Lane.

O’Hair also serves as the co-chair of the UK’s LLP Task Force.

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CI 2013 by the Numbers

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annual CI awards and recognition dinner held

15% of CI graduates study abroad

81%

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2nd

1st to 2nd semester freshmen retention

1,327

1

Undergraduate Majors

14,042 4 scholarship dollars awarded in last four years

84

1,690 3 Donor Gifts

5,179

Distance Learning courses

475

Out-of-State students

170

2

7

First Generation Students

faculty awarded Broadcast Education Association Lifetime Achievement Awards

graduate and undergraduate student organizations

1

46% growth in total enrollment

828

10 7

of 31 iSchools (Information Schools) in eight countries

new endowments created in last four years

Distance Learning courses

CI Ambassadors

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of 108 ACEJMC accredited Journalism programs

28

years sponsoring the Kentucky National Debate Institute

grants awarded

by UK Women in Philanthropy

fastest growing college at UK

Living Alumni

in Health Libraries

by U.S. News and World Report

50

452,000

residential living learning communities

13,346

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Students Served

2

Douglas A. and Carole A. Boyd Professor in Communication named

In-State students

Kentucky Associated Press Broadcasters awards received

Study Abroad Courses

7

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6th

in Health Communication

by NCA

among 83 Communication doctoral programs

6

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in entering freshmen in the UK Honors Program

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