CMCI Now - Spring 2018 issue
Features
A century later, CU officially remembers Lucile
Polly McLean, our associate professor of Media Studies, has spent years digging through historical archives across the country to uncover the story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan (Ger’18), who was CU’s first black female graduate 100 years ago, but was not allowed to walk at graduation. McLean says, "A desire to understand the university’s reasoning for dismissing her achievement motivated me to dig deeper, and thus began my search for Lucile."
Life after death on the Internet
Assistant Professor Jed Brubaker wants to make death "a little bit kinder to people." A founding member of the Department of Information Science, Brubaker helped develop Facebook’s Legacy Contact to enable users to determine the postmortem fate of their profiles.
In the field
Racing to deadline
Flagging down a bush plane in the middle of the Yukon, grad student Zoë Rom (MJour'18) discovers that in journalism, learning on the fly is half the fun.
Covering the games
From being lifted up by U.S. bobsledder Lauren Gibbs to visiting the Demilitarized Zone to developing a taste for dumplings, reporters Cheryl Preheim (Comm’95) and Alex Stone (Jour'03) recall their most memorable experiences covering the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Beyond the classroom
On the record: Advertising student Erin Baptiste interns with local music label
Junior Erin Baptiste has an eclectic group of interests: media, design, history and music.Originally from Dallas, Texas, Baptiste is the type of person who looks both backward and forward. As a dual major in Strategic Communication (in the Media Design track) and History, she informs her ideas for t...
Audio explorations
Update: Nick Mundinger, now a graduating senior, is the 2020 William W. White Outstanding Senior for the Department of Critical Media Practices. Chosen by department faculty, this award recognizes academic merit, professional achievement and service to the colle...
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A Boulder look
Students envision new flags for the city.