Monday, November 9, 2009

2010 USM Graduate Student Reserach Symposium

2010 USM Graduate Research Symposium call for abstracts! The submission deadline for the Graduate School is Jan. 29, but you need to submit your abstracts to the School of Mass Communication and Journalism by Jan. 22. Thanks!

More info: http://www.usm.edu/graduateschool/symposium.php

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Congratulations to Dr. Jae Alexander

Jae Alexander successfully defended her dissertation today. Her dissertation, "The History of American Film Institute," was directed by Dr. David R. Davies. Congratulations!

Graduate Research Forum Meeting Nov. 5

Many thanks to the following graduate students who presented their media history research papers at the meeting:

Kaylene Armstrong: "Making It Personal: Reporter/source relationships in the 1985 Lafferty brothers trials"

Jim Coll: “Tackling General Nat: Newspaper Coverage of the Integration of Southern Miss Football”

Jessica Wallace: “Opening the Floodgates of Hate and Hell: Local press coverage and its effects on the Mack Charles Parker lynching case”

Jessica (left) was also interviewed by Dana Gower (right) from the Lamar Times about her research project.