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UNC School of Media and Journalism student Danny Nett is one of five winners of scholarships from the American Copy Editors Society (ACES). Nett, a senior from Greensboro, will receive a $1,500 scholarship and free registration and travel assistance to attend the ACES national conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, in March.

Associate Professor Ryan Thornburg has assumed the duties of Reese News Lab director at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Assistant Professor Steven King will take on the role of the lab’s chief innovation officer.

The Hussman School’s Visual Language Lab partnered with the GE Hitachi nuclear energy plant to work on an eightweek communications assessment of the millennial demographic in order to help market GEH’s PRISM advanced reactor and increase nuclear energy awareness. Students traveled to Wilmington to tour the GEH nuclear power plant. They then followed a loose creative process that allowed their ideas to evolve and solidify into final recommendations that the GEH executives embraced.

Investigative reporter and former Park Fellow Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (M.A.) will deliver the MJ-school Spring Commencement address on Saturday, May 13, one day before fellow alumna Brooke Baldwin '01 takes the stage in Kenan Memorial Stadium for all of UNC.

From classroom competitions to Super Bowl Sunday: These MJ-school seniors are living the advertising dream.

A vibrant and collaborative interdisciplinary research culture at the UNC School of Media and Journalism creates new knowledge, advances scholarship and helps reinvent media.

Describing a “phenomenal experience,” Lisa Stockman, president for communications at inVentiv Health, discussed her time in the MATC program in a recent Start Here / Never Stop podcast conversation with Dean Susan King.

Check out Dean Susan King's conversation with recent grad Kathryn Walker '16, now a Presidential Scholar under UNC President Margaret Spellings.

Story by University Development | Originally published Jan. 15, 2017, on stories.unc.edu

Check out the latest Start Here / Never Stop Podcast episode with communications expert and double MJ-school alumna Lisa Stockman.