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Senior associate dean and Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar in Business Journalism Chris Roush is teaching business journalism to students at the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile, for the next two weeks. The following is Roush's first dispatch from Santiago.
By Chris Roush
At the beginning of the journalism class I’m teaching at the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile, I asked the students who really wanted to be a journalist.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $407,000 grant to Joan Cates, a researcher in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, to develop and implement a campaign to raise awareness about the Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among parent, healthcare providers and pre-teen boys.

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John Drescher, executive editor of The (Raleigh) News & Observer, delivered the commencement address at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication graduation ceremony May 13, 2012.

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Six UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media public relations students were recognized May 2 with the 2012 N.C. Public Relations Society of America InSpire Award. It is the third consecutive year that UNC PR students have won an InSpire Award.

Two UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media projects earned best in category recognition as the school won six total awards in the 2011 Horizon Interactive Awards.

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