Dean Andrea Miller and Dr. Melanie Wilderman
Gaylord faculty and students made their mark at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s 2024 conference in Philadelphia this August.
Journalism faculty member Dr. Melanie Wilderman received the Robert Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award from AEJMC's Scholastic Journalism Division. The award is presented annually to organizations or individuals who have made outstanding efforts in attracting students into JMC programs. Wilderman is executive director of Oklahoma Scholastic Media, an organization housed in Gaylord College that has been devoted to training and assistance to high school media since 1916.
Dean Andrea Miller and Dr. Melanie Wilderman
Amanda Siew, 2022-2024 master’s student and doctoral student Daniel Thompson won the conference’s New Audience Research Paper Award for their co-authored paper “Out with the Old: What Young Adults Think of the TikTokification of News” and received a third-place division award in the Small Programs Interest Group for their paper “Developing Undergraduate News Habits with Daily AI Generated News Quizzes for Journalism Programs and Beyond.” Siew completed her master’s degree this summer; Thompson is beginning his second year of Gaylord’s doctoral program
Doctoral Candidate Ahmed Shatil Alam was recognized as a 2024 AEJMC-MCSD Diversity and Inclusion Career Development Fellow. Alam is also the 2024 recipient of the OU Graduate College’s Bullard Dissertation Completion Fellowship, an award given out to just six graduate students across campus this year.
Amanda Siew
Ahmed Shatil Alam and Amanda Siew
Daniel Thompson
Faculty including Dr. Jeong-Nam Kim, Dr. Robert Kerr and Dr. Ralph Beliveau led several panels during the conference, and overall, Gaylord’s graduate students participated in multiple panels and presented more than a dozen papers including three partnering with faculty throughout the three-day conference. This AEJMC conference was also the first for Public Relations senior Aniketh Koneru, who presented a paper with his PR Research instructor and doctoral candidate Sunha Yeo and doctoral student Bemi Aderemi.
The conference wrapped for Gaylord attendees with a social on Saturday, August 10, when Dean Andrea Miller met graduate alumni and current graduate students
The AEJMC conference will be in San Francisco next year. Paper submissions are due each spring.
View Gaylord's entire participation at AEJMC with the link below!
