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CommunicationsSURPRISE
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Dennis Lynch, assistant dean and associate professor of television-radio, was made an honorary life member of the University Film and Video Association at that organization's annual conference in August. The association is the major academic film/ video production and studies organization in the country. Lynch has served the association in many capacities, including president. Assistant professor of cinema and photography Rob Hahn '82 [see below under "New Faculty"] received a regional Emmy award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in the drama category for his film Kiss. This summer the Park School of Communications selected Victoria Fullard, corporate communication '99, as the second recipient of the New York Communications Alumni Internship Award. The award is made possible through contributions by New York area alumni and is awarded to a deserving communications student who is interning in the New York City area. Two television-radio majors, Lawrence T. Guyon '98 and Robyn Meyer '99, were awarded the prestigious CBS Scholarship for the fall semester. Sponsored by the Westing-house Foundation and administered by the Foundation for Independent Higher Education, the scholarship is for minority students of full-time, junior year standing who are interested in pursuing careers in broadcast communications, particularly in technical, production, news, and programming areas. NEW FACULTY
Vincent Grenier joined the Department of Cinema and Photography as an associate professor. He received an M.F.A. in filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and was previously an assistant professor at Adelphi University. He has also taught at the State University of New York at Binghamton, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the School of Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Art Institute, Hunter College, and SUNY at Buffalo. He is an award-winning filmmaker. Rob Hahn '82 joined the cinema and photography department as an assistant professor. He received his M.F.A. in cinema and photography from Southern Illinois University and a B.S. in cinema studies and photography from Ithaca College. Hahn previously was a producer and programmer at WDBX-FM, a freelance film and videotape editor, and a visiting assistant professor and instructor at Southern Illinois University. Shannon Jackson joined the television-radio department as an assistant professor. Jackson received bachelor's and master's degrees from Arizona State University and is a Ph.D. candidate at Old Dominion University. She previously was an assistant professor and instructor at Hampton University in the Department of Mass Media Arts. |
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More than 100 former Ad Lab students held a surprise
reception for Howard Cogan, associate professor of television-radio, at
the ABC Gallery in New York City in July. Cogan's former students were there
to honor him on his retirement from the Park School after 17 years of distinguished
teaching and service.
In connection with his retirement, a fund-raising
effort was launched as a tribute to Cogan and his wife, Helen, who did much
to support her husband's leadership of the Ad Lab teams. Created to recognize
and honor the Cogans' many years of dedication to the teams, the Howard
and Helen Cogan Ad Lab Endowment Fund will help future students by providing
additional resources for plans, books, research, and travel. More than 140
Ad Lab alumni have donated to the fund, which now totals $19,500.
Ithaca College Television and WICB-FM received awards
at the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association's annual
awards banquet in Syracuse. Both stations were cited for their reporting
of the abduction and murders of two Dryden High School cheerleaders. The
radio station was also cited for its coverage of the slaying of an Ithaca
police officer. The citations recognize the excellent work of the students
in reporting news to the Associated Press.
Veteran journalist Christopher Harper has joined the
faculty as the first Park Distinguished Chair in Communications and professor
in the television-radio department. A former producer and bureau chief for
ABC News, Harper has taught at Indiana University and New York University.
His broadcast and print journalism credentials are extensive, and he is
an expert on the subject of on-line journalism as well.
Harper is the author of And That's the Way
It Will Be: News Media in the Digital Age and editor of Mass Communications
in the New Millennium, both published this fall. The Park Distinguished
Chair in Communications is funded by a $10 million grant from the Park Foundation
in honor of Ithaca College President Emeritus James J. Whalen. In addition
to the endowed chair, the grant funds undergraduate scholarships, a distinguished
visitors series, and capital equipment acquisitions in the school.