Grad students win awards for research, teaching, service, creative work
Five Media School graduate students received Graduate Student Achievement Awards for outstanding work completed in 2020. Faculty members nominated students, and the winners will receive a monetary award.
Media School Graduate Teaching Award
Niki Fritz for excellent instructor of record teaching
Media School Graduate Service Award
Xan Smith for committed and effective professional service as Media School Graduate Association chair
Best Research Paper (from a Media School graduate class)
Carol Chih Ju Lin for the research paper, “Empowering Leftover Women: Neoliberal Chinese Dream and Rising Feminist Awareness in Contemporary Chinese Television Dramas”
Best Creative Project
Jacob Wilson for the documentary film, “A Woman’s Touch: A Brief Homage to Female Editors”
Best Journalism Project
Violet Baron for “Growing in Place,” a podcast about food that she conceptualized, reported, produced and edited with support from IU’s Center for Rural Engagement