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Communicator
Staff
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Lindsey
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Adviser:
Jane Gibson
Natt
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| Lorene
Yue, a department alumna and business reporter for the Chicago
Tribune, spoke to COM458: Specalized Reporting during
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| 1998 graduate Paaige Turner (in ivory suit, third from right)
spoke at "The Educator in the Information Age" seminior
in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. "In this culture, everyone wants
to have a picture taken with you, even at a professional conference,"
she said. "I must have posed for pictures for 20 minutes
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|  Distinguished Alumni
Department alumnus Leonard Cox has been named a 2004 School of Liberal Arts Distinguished Alumni.
Cox, from New York, N.Y, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and leading consultant, graduated from Purdue with a B.A .in Communication (1979) and an M.A. in Organizational Communication (1996).
Currently, Cox is the co-owner of River Films Inc., an independent documentary film production company, and a partner with the Michael Cohen Group, LLC, which is a media and organizational communications consulting firm. His clients at the Cohen group include Lifetime Television, Sesame Workshop, and Disney.
During the past 20 years, Cox has worked on and produced more than five documentary films, incuding the award-winning productions "Family Name" and "Questioning Faith," which is currently being broadcast on HBO.
Since 1986, the Distinguished Alumni Award has recognized SLA alumni for their professional achievements, dedication to their communities, and involvement with Purdue.
You can read more about Cox in a previous Communicator article. You can also read about past SLA Distinguished Alumni on the SLA Alumni Relations Web page. |
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Alumni
Present Talk on Preparing and Searching
for a Non-academic Job
 Tim
Edgar (photo at left), Ph.D., 1986, an associate professor
of marketing communication at Emerson College, and Amy Lemire,
M.A., 2002, who works in the MIS Global Learning Solutions
area at Kimberly-Clark Corp., returned to campus to present
a colloquium on searching for a non-academic job to interested
graduate students.
Edgar, the graduate director for Emerson's health communication
program, worked for nearly nine years at Westat, a contract
research corporation in Rockville, Md. While there, he directed
health communication research projects for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, the National Cancer Institute, and the
Indian Health Service. Lemire began at Kimberly-Clark as an
intern and was later promoted to a full-time position.
Jennifer Dane, who is graduating in May 2004 with a master's
degree in Interpersonal Communication, said Edgar not only "provided proof of
the success that can come from all the hard work of graduate
school, he also supplied an inspiring message to help students
connect the research, writing and interpersonal skills learned
in the world of academia with the ability to succeed in the
world of industry." |
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