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For the second consecutive year, students studying in the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in LA program got an inside look at the festivities leading up to the Academy Awards, the film industry’s biggest night of the year.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s student-run strategic communications agency captured two student awards at the Triangle AdFed’s 2016 American Advertising Awards Gala. The event was held on Feb. 18 in downtown Durham.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ senior Meredith Stutz spent a week abroad in January as part of her Pulitzer Center Student Fellowship, collecting insights and opinions while examining the European country’s once devout Catholic population.

Associate Professor Naeemah Clark recently published a column in regional newspapers about the lack of diversity among 2016 Academy Award nominees, and how recent changes in the Academy will produce a broader selection of nominees in future years.

The Pendulum, Phi Psi Cli and Colonnades won a total of 22 awards from the North Carolina College Media Association.

Max Herrera traveled home to San Mateo, Calif., for Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s “Fake Break” this winter to volunteer on the sustainability team with the Super Bowl Host Committee.

Led by Nick Margherita’s first-place finish, several School of Communications students and graduates were recognized in the 2016 Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts. Their awards will be presented at the organization's annual conference April 17-20 in Las Vegas.

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Bill Zint ’79, WSOE’s first manager, reflects on the student radio station’s 1977 launch and its mission to bring together the Â鶹ÊÓƵ community. 

The two-day event, attended by more than 100 students, professionals and scholars, was organized in partnership with the PRSSA chapter at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.