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Identity is a deeper concept within academic research, and a key focus for Associate Professor Maria Leonora “Nori” Comello. Her work delves into how we perceive our individual selves, how those self-concepts can be activated by messages and how these self-concepts can affect our behavior and willingness to change for the better.

The North Carolina Association of Broadcasters honored Susan King, dean of the UNC School of Media and Journalism, with its Distinguished Service Award at its annual awards lunch on Thursday, June 14, at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham.

The UNC School of Media and Journalism granted $534,390 through private funding in the 2017-18 academic year for scholarships and awards. More than $1.46 million was also awarded to graduate students through the Roy H. Park Fellowships alone, made possible by private support from the Triad Foundation.

Four UNC School of Media and Journalism students have begun dream internship experiences this summer thanks to The Lookout Fellows Program, established by UNC alumni Lee and Sunny Burrows.

Two UNC School of Media and Journalism students have won individual national championships in the Hearst Journalism Awards competitions held in San Francisco June 3-6, 2018.

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

A philanthropic Campaign for Carolina fund established by Robert “Frank” Andrews IV ’90 for the UNC School of Media and Journalism fosters and celebrates entrepreneurialism at the school. Distinguished Professor John Sweeney, a mentor during Andrews’ undergraduate days at the MJ-school, leads The Frank Andrews Fund for Aspiring Agency Entrepreneurs. He is planning a series of events, competitions and outreach efforts to nurture entrepreneurial thinking in students and to shine a light on innovation by MJ-school faculty and alumni.

Listen in to the 30th episode of the Start Here / Never Stop Podcast with MJ-school Dean Susan King and alumnus Andrew Schorr '71, a medical journalist and the founder of Patient Power, a resource hub that supports and connects cancer patients, caregivers, medical centers and other advocacy organizations.

Listen in to the Start Here / Never Stop Podcast with MJ-school Dean Susan King and alumna Robyn Tomlin '96, executive editor of The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun, and the first regional editor for the Carolinas for The McClatchy Company.

Brooks Fuller, a 2017 UNC School of Media and Journalism doctoral alumnus, has won the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s 2018 Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award.