Graduate students receive achievement awards
Several Media School graduate students received Graduate Student Achievement Awards for outstanding academic work completed in 2021.
Best research paper
Shobha SV for the paper, “#MeToo movement’s dilemma: Is free speech really ‘free’?”
Best research project (independent study, thesis or dissertation)
Mallika Khanna for the MA thesis, Desi Diasporic Cultural Entrepreneurs: Producing the Self Through Narratives Of Trauma And Healing Online
Best creative project
Caleb Allison for the script “Black Ghost,” which won best screenplay at last fall’s Circle City Film Festival in Indianapolis
Best journalism project
Meredith Hemphill for the story, “Are black cats adopted less often? Bloomington Animal Shelter data debunks myth”
Media School Graduate Teaching Award
Ejae Lee for the teaching of R349: Public Relations Writing as Instructor of Record
Media School Graduate Service Award
Cole Stratton for significant service and care — both formal and informal — to the Media School, its programs, curriculum, faculty and students, not the least of which includes earlier contributions to the founding of the Media School Graduate Association
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