March 21, 2025 Advertising faculty and graduate students in the MS advertising and ICR doctoral programs, as well as several alumni, participated in the 2025 annual conference of the American Academy of Advertising, held March 6-9 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Faculty and graduate students participated in eight paper presentations and three panels, discussing research and ideas […]
March 19, 2025 Helen Katz (MS ’86, advertising; PhD ’88, ICR), EVP of Research at Publicis Media, has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2025 Erwin Ephron Demystification Award. This lifetime achievement award honors industry leaders who are exceptional communicators and excel in making complex subjects accessible, embodying the spirit of legendary advertising research guru Erwin Ephron. […]
March 19, 2025 Armando Sanchez-Monsivais (BS ’19, advertising), integrated marketing manager at Discord, received the American Advertising Federation’s Most Promising Rising Star Award for 2025. The Most Promising Rising Star Award recognizes alumni who have made notable contributions to the advertising industry within five to eight years of graduating from the Most Promising program. This accolade […]
March 14, 2025 | The News-Gazette Slowly but surely, streaming is becoming the preferred method of watching television and increasingly there is little content that is not available on streaming. Slowly but surely, the trend is that all content is migrating to become available on streaming, and on occasion exclusively so. Harsh Taneja, Associate Professor […]
February 12, 2025 | Kelly Youngblood The American Advertising Federation at Illinois is the largest student chapter in the nation, currently boasting more than 400 members. Caroline Burns, a senior in advertising and president of the AAF at Illinois, knows why. “I think it’s a combination of we’ve been around for so long at the […]
January 13, 2025 | Kelly Youngblood Three experiential learning opportunities are being offered to students this spring including two new trips—one to the nation’s capital and another to two Scandinavian countries—as well as a return visit to the West African country of Sierra Leone. Washington, D.C., March 19-22 Colleen King, clinical assistant professor of journalism […]
Assistant Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Yang joined the Sandage Department of Advertising in the fall of 2024. She has been actively engaged in academia, teaching a diverse range of advertising and public relations courses. Yang serves as a committee member on the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Research Committee and as a reviewer […]
November 13, 2024 As part of the College of Media’s three-part webinar series this fall, “Bridging Divides: Conversations on Media and Disagreement,” faculty from the Departments of Advertising, Journalism, and Media & Cinema Studies led Q&As to explore how productive discussions occur across lines of disagreement and difference. Below, read excerpts from “Reaching Across the Aisle: Advertising […]
October 3, 2024 Updated May 13, 2025 Congratulations to these College of Media students who received campus and college awards and honors, and scholarships and fellowships that were made possible thanks to our donors. HONORS Bronze TabletInscription on the Bronze Tablets in the Main Library recognizes students ranking in the top three percent of their graduating class. […]
October 1, 2024 How are we teaching students, and the broader community, to disagree? It’s a question the College of Media hopes to address in a new three-part series, “Bridging Divides: Conversations on Media and Disagreement.” Update 11/13/24: Read excerpts from the Q&As: Faculty from the Departments of Advertising, Journalism, and Media & Cinema Studies […]