Media College News

Obituary from http://www.fredjenkinsfuneralhome.com/

Dr. Robert M. ‘Bob’ Ours, 77, of Morgantown, passed away on Tuesday July 29, 2014 at his home. He was born September 15, 1936, in Parkersburg, WV, son to the late Henry and Grace Simon Ours. He found great joy in his family, friends, music, nature, and bringing history to life.

The Division of Student Affairs is now the Division of Student Life. The name change was initiated by President E. Gordon Gee, who believes that the new name better represents the Division’s focus. As a result of the change, the Office of Student Life is now called Campus and Community Life. The new Student Life website can be found here, and Campus and Community Life can be found here. For more information, contact Sabrina Cave at Sabrina.Cave@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-2506.

Yan was hired as part of the WVU 2020 Strategic Plan’s Mountains of Excellence – five areas of strength and opportunity upon which the University is focusing its multidisciplinary research and innovation efforts. These multidisciplinary areas include:

1. Addressing health disparities in Appalachia 
2. Improving STEM education and scientific literacy 
3. Utilizing shale gas responsibly 
4. Promoting stewardship of water resources 
5. Achieving international leadership in radio astronomy

Stephanie Ackerman (BSJ, 2005) is a member of NASCAR’s Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) team in Charlotte, North Carolina. When Ackerman, a native of Wheeling, West Virginia, started working for NASCAR in 2012, she could count on one hand the number of drivers she knew. Two years later she has grown to love the sport of auto racing and its fans. Read more about Ackerman’s career with NASCAR.

Currey: Why did you want to work for NASCAR?

Hilary Kinney, a West Virginia University sophomore journalism and geography student, has spent her summer working to ensure there is less food waste in the state of West Virginia. Now Kinney is bringing her work back to campus this fall. Alexis Randolph of The Daily Athenaeum interviewed Kinney about her project. Read about it online.

Assistant Professor Dana Coester, who also serves as the acting creative director for the College’s new Media Innovation Center (opening next year), was interviewed in an article on PBS’s MediaShift alongside three other universities that are creating “maker spaces.” The Innovation Center is a 10,000-square-foot project that will allow students to collaborate on projects in creative ways. Read more.

Copy editor/page designer
The Longview News-Journal, an award-winning daily newspaper, is seeking experienced, creative copy editors/designers.

Reporting to the news editor, the copy editor/page designer must have sound news judgment; exceptional editing, headline-writing and page-design skills; and the ability to do high-quality work at a fast pace for the news, sports and features pages of our newspapers and websites.

The University of Nevada, Reno’s Integrated Marketing team is seeking a web content strategist. Reporting to the Project Manager within the University of Nevada, Reno’s Integrated Marketing team, the Web Content Strategist works with website analytics and key campus constituencies to streamline and continuously enhance the University’s homepage, top-level and high-traffic websites. Specializing in information architecture, content strategy and marketing-based writing, this position assists marketing colleagues in implementing web initiatives and social media efforts across the institution. 
Candidate will strategize our top-level web presence, will make sure what we do is effective and will keep us in touch with industry best practices.

Requirements:

To reflect the new name, Information Technology Services has also changed the email address that students and employees should use when seeking assistance from our Service Desk support staff to ITSHelp@mail.wvu.edu. As always, customers may continue to submit self-service trouble tickets here or call 304-293-4444. ITS provides telephone assistance from 6:30 a.m. to midnight every day. Anyone who maintains a University website that uses the previous email address (oithelp@mail.wvu.edu) should change those references to ITSHelp@mail.wvu.edu. However, emails sent to the old address will automatically reroute to the new address.