News
Annual honors dinner on April 26 recognizes JMC student achievements
The annual honors dinner for the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications will be Friday, April 26. Graduating seniors and students who have received scholarships will be honored. Posted April 23, 2013
Miller School selects new director
Birgit Wassmuth will be the next director of the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University. She will start her new job in June. Posted April 10, 2013
Applicants sought for academic adviser position
The Miller School invites applications for the position of academic adviser. The successful applicant will advise students, meet with prospective students and parents, lead orientation sessions, supervisor student ambassadors and coordinate outreach activities for undergraduate students. Posted April 8, 2013
JMC graduate students present at local, national and international conferences
Graduate students present papers at conferences in Kansas, Tennessee, and Dublin, Ireland. Posted April 1, 2013
JMC majors place in regional competition
Congratulations to JMC majors Darrington Clark and Jakki Thompson, as well as the entire Collegian staff, for placing in the top three in three categories of the Society of Professional Journalists' regional college competition. Posted March 18, 2013
Royal Purple yearbook named finalist for national award
K-State's 2012 Royal Purple yearbook has been named a finalist for the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker award — the highest honor in collegiate journalism. Posted March 13, 2013
Miller School accepts record number of majors
The A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications accepted 112 majors into the program this spring, surpassing the previous high of 81 in 2008. Posted March 12, 2013
Graduate students present at national symposium
International graduate students working with K-State professor Angela Powers are learning about local media in the U.S. and presenting their research at the College of Communication and Information’s 35th annual Research Symposium at the University of Tennessee. Posted Feb. 27, 2013
The Kedzie Think Tank is the place where students can work as they become the innovators, storytellers, and strategic communicators of the future. Posted Feb. 4, 2013
Gloria Freeland, assistant professor in K-State's A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, traveled to San Jose, Costa Rica Oct. 26-Nov. 4 to meet with faculty members and students in the School of Mass Communication Sciences at the University of Costa Rica. Posted Dec. 11, 2012
Applicants sought for journalism and digital media faculty position
Kansas State University's A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications seeks applicants for a tenure-track, assistant professor position in journalism and digital media. Posted Dec. 7, 2012
'Kedziepalooza' welcome back event draws hundreds
Students in journalism and mass communications assembled on the Kedzie Hall courtyard to commence the first ever Kedziepalooza. More than 200 students visited the courtyard to participate. Posted Oct. 1, 2012
Events
JMC Networking Night took place on Thursday, March 7 in the K-State Student Union Courtyard. Posted Feb. 18, 2013.
David Dary Delivers 13th Annual Huck Boyd Lecture
David Dary, a Manhattan native, delivered the 13th annual Huck Boyd Lecture in Community Media on Wednesday, Sept. 19. His Lecture, "Community Journalism and Other Stuff in a Changing World," was held in Forum Hall of the K-State Student Union. It was sponsored by the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media, hosued in the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at K-State.
In conjunction with the lecture, K-State's Hale Library opened "The Dary Trails: The Library and Papers of David Dary." A reception was held on Sept. 19 in the Morse Department of Special Collections Gallery on the library's fifth floor. The Dary collection contains more than 4,000 volumes related to the history of the West, ranching, Kansas and journalism. Items in the collection date from the 18th century to the present. Posted August 14, 2012.
Great Plains Radio History Symposium
The 7th annual Great Plains Radio History Symposium was held on Friday, Oct. 12, at the Campus Holiday Inn, at 17th and Anderson Avenue in Manhattan. Topics presented at the symposium this year related to the evolution of radio broadcasting in the rural Midwest. Posted July 25, 2012.