Faculty Kudos - Week of May 11, 2009
David Cuillier has been named a research fellow for 2009-10 by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the UA. As a fellow in fall 2009, he will research public attitudes toward freedom of information. He’ll spend spring 2010 on sabbatical to continue that research, traveling the country interviewing citizens. Cuillier also received an $8,250 grant from the Society of Professional Journalists to conduct newsroom training in accessing public records.
Celeste González de Bustamante gave a talk entitled, “‘Hope is stronger than fear:’ Latin American Media and the New Obama Administration” at the School of Journalism’s Spring Research Colloquium on April 23. She also served as a respondent for a student panel as part of the “History of Red/Brown Journalism and Communications Symposium” on May 5. The event was sponsored and organized by the Mexican American Studies and Research Center. Her article titled “1968 Olympic Dreams and Tlatelolco Nightmares: Imagining and Imaging Modernity on Television” has been accepted for publication in the Winter 2010 issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos.
Susan Knight has been officially promoted to associate professor of practice.
Jacqueline Sharkey won a $12,000 grant from the Southwestern Foundation for Education and Historical Preservation to upgrade technology in the Newspaper Production Laboratory, which will assist production of The Tombstone Epitaph and El Independiente.
Alan Weisman was promoted to the rank of laureate professor.
Student Kudos
Candace Begody has a summer internship at the White House in the Office of Management and Administration. The office, according to the White House Web site, offers important operational and administrative support for the President of the United States and the White House Office. It also provides administrative oversight to all components of the Executive Office of the President.
Begody also will receive a $1,000 scholarship from the Arizona Press Club May 16.
Alex Dalenberg was offered a reporter position with The Working Press, a tab newspaper produced for the 2009 SPJ Convention & National Journalism Conference to be held Aug. 27-29 in Indianapolis. He was one of six reporting interns selected out of more than 60 applicants.
Lauren King wrote an article for her Jour 205 class that was published in the business section of the Arizona Daily Star May 14. The story was on a UA economics professor who compares today’s economic woes with lessons learned in the Great Depression.
Chelsea Jo Simpson, May 2009 journalism graduate, accepted a position as marketing manager at the Association of University Research Parks in Tucson.
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