http://communication.cos.ucf.edu/ 10 News Articles en-us Copyright 2008, Nicholson School of Communication Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:46:47 EDT Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:46:47 EDT Nicholson School of Communication In house http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ http://communication.cos.ucf.edu/news/viewArticle.php?articleId=110 View the Nicholson School of Communication's Memorial Tribute to Dr. Mike Meeske. Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://communication.cos.ucf.edu/news/viewArticle.php?articleId=107 The Florida Associated Press named the university's "UCF Knightly News" Best College TV Newscast for 2007. The students of the 30-minutes television news show received the award at a luncheon held last week. The annual competition is open to all college newscasts in Florida. The Knightly News is a weekly show produced entirely by students in the Radio-Television Broadcast Journalism track in the Nicholson School of Communication. Professor George Bagley was the faculty me... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT http://communication.cos.ucf.edu/news/viewArticle.php?articleId=77 Several professors at the University of Central Florida are available to speak with reporters as experts on topics related to the end of 2006 and the new year. Reporters may want to contact the News and Information office for assistance in reaching professors. Writer Zenaida Kotala can be reached at 407-823-6120 or zkotala@mail.ucf.edu. Writer Chad Binette can be reached at 407-823-6312 or cbinette@mail.ucf.edu. New Year's Resolutions About Body Image and Diets -- Stacey Tantleff Dunn, a p... Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:00:00 EST http://communication.cos.ucf.edu/news/viewArticle.php?articleId=83 The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees approved naming the School of Communication building in honor of the program's top donors at its regular meeting Thursday. Pending the Legislature's approval, the building that houses the Nicholson School of Communication will bear the same name in honor of Tony and Sonja Nicholson, who have donated $2,000,001 to support the school. The Nicholsons' gift, which is eligible for a dollar-for-dollar state match, will help fund faculty and stu... Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:00:00 EST http://communication.cos.ucf.edu/news/viewArticle.php?articleId=81 University of Central Florida radio-television majors won first place this spring in both the radio and television newscast categories of a college contest held by the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters. UCF won first place in the newscast categories for the first time in the seven years of the competition. James Flaskamp and John Wheaton shared the first-place award for their radio newscast, which aired on WGKB Radio (Golden Knights Broadcasting) in the fall. Shawn Holt and Angelica Ma... Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:00:00 EDT http://communication.cos.ucf.edu/news/viewArticle.php?articleId=78 Professionals from the Orlando Sentinel, the University of South Florida and St. Petersburg College engaged University of Central Florida students and professors in a discussion about the importance of ethics in media and academia Wednesday evening. The discussion brought together experts in philosophy, communication, science and education, topics that will be studied at an ethics center that UCF intends to create. The center will provide resources to help students and Central Florida prof... Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:00:00 EST http://communication.cos.ucf.edu/news/viewArticle.php?articleId=84 Tony and Sonja Nicholson, Orlando area residents and longtime supporters of UCF academics and athletics, announced a $2 million donation Friday that will help the University of Central Florida's Nicholson School of Communication reach national prominence. The Nicholsons' gift, which will be matched with state dollars, will be invested in an endowment, and the annual proceeds will help the Nicholson School of Communication hire professors, buy equipment or fill other needs. About 2,000 stud... Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:00:00 EST http://communication.cos.ucf.edu/news/viewArticle.php?articleId=79 The University of Central Florida's Nicholson School of Communication has been designated one of five regional Centers for Editing Excellence by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund for 2005. The Nicholson School will receive a grant of about $30,000 from the Newspaper Fund to train 11 top college journalists from around the country. Nicholson School faculty will prepare the students for 10-week, paid summer editing internships at daily newspapers, including six in Florida. The students will live ... Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:00:00 EST http://communication.cos.ucf.edu/news/viewArticle.php?articleId=80 Tony and Sonja Nicholson, longtime supporters of academics and athletics at UCF, will donate $2 million for the construction of a field house to be named in their honor. The indoor practice facility will feature a regulation-sized FieldTurf field that will be used primarily by the UCF football team and also by other Golden Knights squads. One of many projects the university and the UCF Athletics Association are undertaking to improve sports facilities on campus, the field house will allow ... Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:00:00 EST http://communication.cos.ucf.edu/news/viewArticle.php?articleId=82 More than two dozen students will compete to convince a panel of judges with speeches on "Current Issues of Equality in the U.S.A." in the fourth annual Bernard C. Kissel Outstanding Student Speaker Competition on Friday, Nov. 7, in the UCF Communication Building. Undergraduate students will give six- to eight-minute persuasive speeches encompassing this year's common curriculum theme that focuses on Brown vs. the Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision that ended segregat... Mon, 03 Nov 2003 12:00:00 EST