Accomplishments - February, 2025
“Illinois banned life sentences for young offenders—but not for those already behind bars,” a story by Ethan Holder, a December 2024 journalism graduate, Julia Rendleman and Molly Parker-Stephens, assistant professors in the School of Journalism and Advertising, and the Saluki Local Reporting Lab, was in Capitol News Illinois on Feb. 25. The story also featured a perspective on youth sentencing from Tamara Kang, assistant professor in the School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences.
“La Petite Mort,” a photograph by Sean Hoisington, admissions and records representative, Undergraduate Admissions, earned a Staff Choice Award from Zackary Petot, St. Louis Artists’ Guild executive and artist director at Reflections Unveiled: Contemporary Portraiture in the Digital Age juried exhibition.
A journalism lighting class taught in the fall 2024 semester by Jan Thompson, director, School of Journalism and Advertising, earned an award of excellence in the student film and video narrative competition at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts. The students’ entry, “The Lovers: The Lovers Staff,” is an interpretation of Belgian artist René Magritte’s painting “The Lovers.” The BEA competition had 2,285 entries, representing over 300 colleges, universities and two-year colleges in such categories as audio, documentary, film and video, interactive multimedia, news, scriptwriting and sports.
John Shaw, director, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, discussed presidential transitions during the White House Historical Association’s virtual meeting on Jan. 30. Shaw’s discussion, “A Presidential Transition for the Ages,” is part of the historical association’s “History Happy Hour.” In his talk with Todd Arrington, director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Shaw focused on the transition between Eisenhower and President John F. Kennedy following the 1960 election.
“Narrating Irish Female Development 1916-2018” by Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, associate professor, School of Literature, Writing and Digital Humanities, was recently published by Edinburgh University Press.
“Animation and Artificial Intelligence: Cartoons and the eclipse of semiosis,” a paper by John Reid Perkins-Buzo, associate professor, School of Media Arts, was recently published in the journal “Punctum: International Journal of Semiotics.” Perkins-Buzo explores how animation may be one way that “the semiotic animal … becomes aware of the historicity within human experience of nature as a whole.”
