CURRENT EVENTS
2019-2020 Student Awards
Shepard Smith Moves Ahead
TAYLOR MEDALS
Payten Coale, Caty Crawford, Ellie Greenberger, Elliott Klass, Daniel Payne
KAPPA TAU ALPHA GRADUATE SCHOLAR
Loidha Bautista - IMC Lucy Burnham - Journalism
GRADUATE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Loidha Bautista - IMC Sima Bhowmik - Journalism
LAMBDA SIGMA WINNER
Daniel Payne
EXCELLENCE IN INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Samantha Henderson Andrew Newman
TIMOTHY IVY
Former Fox News anchor and UM Journalism School alum Shepard Smith has joined CNBC, and will host a new prime-time evening news program. Smith’s title at CNBC will be chief general news anchor and chief breaking general news anchor. At CNBC, Smith will host The News with Shepard Smith, set to debut in the 7 p.m. ET time slot at the end of September. “I am honored to continue to pursue the truth, both for CNBC’s loyal viewers and for those who have been following my reporting for decades in good times and in bad,” Smith said in a network news release.
IMC STUDENT WINS SECOND RUNNER-UP IN THE DAN COLLINS SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM
Lauren Conley Savannah Day
THE OVERBY AWARD
Daniel Payne
KAPPA TAU ALPHA INDUCTEES
Journalism: Nigel Dent, Alexandra Barfield, Mathhew Hendley, Mason Scioneaux, Gavin Norton, Alexander Norris, McKenzie Richmond, Callahan Basil, Austin Parker, Sarah Mullen IMC: Payten Coale, Julia Peoples, Tyler White, Jackson Sepko, Olivia Schwab, Kailee Ayers, Virginia Monssor, Lauren Wilson, Reagan Stone, Avary Hewlett, Cathryn Crawford, Andrew Gardner, Nicholas Weaver, Meredith Sills, katherine Johnson, Anna Borgen, Hannah Rom, Hannah Williamson, Asia Harden
DEAN’S AWARD WINNERS
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Journalism: Halle Ames, Malia Carothers, Madison Scarpino, Will Stribling IMC: Alexandra Alonso, Tristen Bloxsom, Justin Bush, Catherine Campbell, Mica Johnson, Elliott Klass, Jessica Lanter, Avery Sadler, Caroline Swenson, Jazzie Tate, Leah Thompson, Hannah Williamson,
2020
The Dan Collins Scholarship Award, was established in 2017 in memory of businessman, Dan Collins, who passed away from cancer in 2005. This year’s second runner-up is Lily Sweet King, who is studying integrated marketing communications. King is the founder of The Longest Table, a community event she created, fund-raised, and hosted for over 120 peers from high schools in Leon County in Tallahassee, Florida. The goal of these events is to bring people of different socioeconomic and racial backgrounds together to share a meal and stories. King brought The Longest Table to the University of Mississippi, working with the school chancellor to host the university-wide event during the spring of 2019. The event was so successful, the chancellor said it would become an annual UM event.
