TweetThe Brian Lamb School of Communication’s (BLSC) Fast Track students took home the first place award from the Broadcast Education Festival of Media Arts this spring for schools which aired a student television newscast three days per week or less. The Fast Track news team is an interdisciplinary group of students from the COM 408-409 [...]
TweetPrinceton professor Cornel West believes racism still matters in the United States and is more prevalent than most Americans want to accept. West, a famous American philosopher, author and activist, spoke to an audience of more than 2,000 students, faculty, staff, and community members at Purdue on April 12, arguing that white supremacy continues to [...]
TweetProject Impact has been busy this spring hosting events on topics as diverse as oil fracking, the U.S. congress, and art. The students enrolled in the Project Impact course are responsible each semester for coordinating the on campus speaker series, which includes forums that are open to the public. Events this spring included an interactive [...]
TweetWith several hundred organizations to choose from at Purdue, one particular group promotes leadership and friendship for women studying the field of communication. The Association for Women in Communication, or AWC, is part of a national chapter that focuses on the advancement of women who pursue studies in communication. Rachel Hibner, a senior in the [...]
TweetThe Brian Lamb School of Communication (BLSC) recently received an anonymous gift of $2 million, which will be leveraged with Purdue matching programs to provide $3 million to the school. The new funds will be used to create a C-SPAN chair endowment for a clinical professor in the BLSC with a specialization to include political [...]
TweetThe Brian Lamb School of Communication’s C. Richard Petticrew Speech and Debate Forum students were busy this semester, participating in several competitions and winning awards across the Midwest. In January, Petticrew Forum students dominated a two-day tournament co-hosted by Butler University and Miami University (Ohio). BLSC students Allen Chiu and Nathan Tornquist placed third in [...]
TweetOne of this spring’s Com 320 Small Group Communication courses, taught by graduate student Kristen Hatten, completed a service learning project in collaboration with West Lafayette, Ind., Parks & Recreation. Dan Dunten, parks and recreation stewardship manager, asked the class to make a total of 10 posters which would be placed around the different trails [...]
TweetThis November, students had the opportunity to meet and interact with two of the College of Liberal Arts’ most successful and notable alumni through the Old Masters Program. The Old Masters Program, a student organization that brings 10 distinguished alumni back to campus, gives students a chance to hear from these Boilermakers about their paths [...]
TweetPurdue communication major David Boudia was the underdog going into the 10-meter platform diving finals at the 2012 Olympics. He was not expected to beat reigning world champion Qui Bo, who took the silver medal, or Britain’s Tom Daley, who won bronze. Although no one expected Boudia — who was at one time afraid of [...]
TweetSeating was scarce in Loeb Playhouse Sept. 29 as students, faculty, and members of the community gathered on the campus of Purdue University to hear Brian Lamb, founder and former CEO of C-SPAN, ask Gov. Mitch Daniels about his goals for Purdue University. Daniels was recently appointed the 12th president of Purdue University, a position [...]