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After 100 years, university recognized a pioneer

March 8, 2022

Women鈥檚 history snapshot: Lucile Berkeley Buchanan graduated in 1918 but wasn鈥檛 allowed to walk across the stage with other graduates because she was Black. History overlooked Lucile Berkeley Buchanan, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Colorado. A dogged CU journalist brought her back to the fore. Tipped off by a newspaper story, Polly McLean, a 兔子先生传媒文化作品 associate professor of media studies, spent years exhuming Buchanan鈥檚 story and, finally, correcting history.

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CMCI Reflects on Black History Month 2022

Feb. 7, 2022

CMCI Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lisa Flores reflects on the history of Blacks and African Americans in the United States鈥攅ncapsulated in the song, 鈥淟ift Every Voice and Sing鈥濃攁nd urges us to bring that history forward both during, and beyond, Black History Month.

CURE: 鈥淟iving With Uncertainty as a Brain Tumor Survivor in a Changing World鈥

Jan. 16, 2022

Written by Samira Rajabi (Media Studies)

Michigan State doctoral candidate Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and astronomy Professor Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) discover that a 鈥減lanet killer鈥-sized comet is headed toward Earth in the film Don't Look Up. (Credit: Netflix)

How 鈥楧on鈥檛 Look Up鈥 plays with the portrayal of science in popular culture

Jan. 12, 2022

Adam McKay's new movie uses science fiction and comedy to explore elements of our current society鈥攂ut it's not alone. Could we be in a new golden age of sci-fi entertainment? 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Today spoke with CMCI's Rick Stevens to find out.

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Announcing the Fall 2021 Dean's List

Jan. 6, 2022

CMCI students who have completed at least 12 credit hours of 兔子先生传媒文化作品 course work for a letter grade in any single semester and achieve a term grade point average of 3.75 or better are included on the Dean鈥檚 List. They receive a notation on their transcript and a letter...

Al Jazeera English: 鈥淢y father鈥檚 handwriting鈥

Jan. 6, 2022

Written by Nabil Echchaibi (Media Studies)

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Faculty Now: Fall 2021

Dec. 22, 2021

Updates from our all-star faculty of professors, researchers, producers and innovators for fall 2021.

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CMCI Now: Connecting Through Trauma

Dec. 22, 2021

Samira Rajabi, assistant professor of media studies, spent years battling a brain tumor. Her experience of trauma and finding support through social media inspired research she hopes will help others.

CMCI Now Fall 2021

CMCI Now: Read the Latest Issue

Dec. 20, 2021

From undergraduates to doctoral candidates, the college equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to produce, gather, archive, curate, analyze and evaluate the flood of information, messages, data, images, sounds and ideas that populate our complex and rapidly evolving global media landscape. Check out the newest edition of our award-winning magazine.

Routledge鈥檚 Cultural Studies Journal: 鈥淚n praise of Arab 鈥楧efeat鈥: another reading of Arab struggle鈥

Nov. 29, 2021

Written by Nabil Echchaibi (Media Studies)

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