Undergrad Student News

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

Seoyeon Bae

SEOYEON BAE and ELLIE STIMMEL received the Mulhollem Cravens Leadership Scholarship, which combines the hands-on experience of a summer internship with an internship reflection course, enhanced career coaching, and alumni mentoring opportunities.

SEOYEON BAE,

DYLAN MIETTINEN

and GRACIE STOCKTON were named three of the President’s Gracie Stockton Student Leadership & Service Award recipients. Bae received the Donald R. Zander Alumni Award for Outstanding Student Leadership, while Miettinen and Stockton both received a President’s Student Leadership and Service Award.

MADELINE DENINGER, MICHAELA KING, ANNA KOENNING and MADI MAHLEN participated in virtual internships with El Independiente, a Spanish-language newspaper in Spain. This was a unique opportunity for journalism students with Spanish language skills to be published.

JONAS DOMINGUEZ, AVA KIAN, and FARRAH MINA all received a Dow Jones News Fund internship for summer 2021. Dominguez works for Central Connecticut Communications, Kian for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and Mina for the Kansas City Star. The annual program provides pre-internship training in business and data reporting, digital media and editing, and places emerging journalists in more than 50 newsrooms, from community-based nonprofits to the nation’s top media companies.

FARRAH MINA received the Scholarly Excellence in Equity and Diversity (SEED) Award and was honored at the University of Minnesota Equity & Diversity Convening in May 2021.

GENEVIEVE BENSON, ISABELLA DICICCO, BRYNN JASICKI, ANNA KELTNER, TYRESE LEVERTY, SAUL MYHRE, MINH PHAN and IRELAND SWEENEY were inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Alpha Delta Sigma Honors Society. Students have to achieve a certain GPA overall and in strategic communication courses and they need to be a student member of AAF.

After months of conducting research, developing strategy, creative executions, a multi-touchpoint media plan, and building close friendships along the way, the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) team won Best Team Presentation (REANNA ABRIAM, BRYNN JASICKI, ANNA KELTNER and TYRESE LEVERTY), and Best Presenter (TYRESE LEVERTY) and placed second in the competition. The NSAC team competed in the District 8 competition on Saturday, April 10, after developing a strong approach and plan for the client, Tinder. The NSAC team was led this year by three senior student leaders who served as Co-Presidents: GENEVIEVE BENSON, JOHN CRONIN, and MINH PHAN. Project Manager was sophomore MAYLEE MOORE.

Farrah Mina

The Jour 4263: Strategic Communication Campaigns (Section 001) class partnered with Target to help launch the Ulta Beauty at Target project. Four teams made their final presentations to the client via Zoom on April 28, 2021. The Target client for this project was Gloria Delgadillo (B.A. ’05), who is now a Director of Communications - Merchandising at Target. Delgadillo said, “It was incredibly energizing to see the creativity and confidence in their final presentations. The students’ work was impressive and inspiring, and I can only imagine the impact they will have on our industry.” Another section (005) of the course worked with Fox Sports U on a project for the Big Ten Network. This year the challenge was to increase the television viewership of Big Ten Hockey on the Big Ten Network. The four teams made their final presentations on April 27, 2021, to Big Ten Network teams and Fox Sports U. Cati Hance, manager of Strategic Partnerships at Fox Sports, said, “The Spring 2021 partnership was a great value for us at FOX Sports University + Big Ten Network. The students’ commitment and hard work were evident. The final product the students prepared was quite impressive, and it was a great experience getting to witness the engagement from the class all semester to build a final product they can be very proud of.”