Communication News

Business Communication interns Yina Dong (left) and Andrew Nagel (right) participated in an internship panel on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, organized by the School of Design's internship director, Sonya Lawyer. The students on the panel (there were more than the photo shows) spoke about their own internships to an audience of current interns, faculty, employers, and students looking for a position. The two communication interns spoke about how they found their site, and what they learned while they were there. The event was held in the Rockland banquet room and was followed by the traditional poster session.

Look who has just recently joined Stevenson's University Advancement team as assistant director of donor relations & stewardship -- Business Communication alum Kellan Newby-Matthews, from the class of 2011. Kellan was an event specialist for nearly six years at Kennedy Krieger Institute before returning to her alma mater. With a graduate certificate in non-profit management from Johns Hopkins University, Kellan has much to contribute to University Advancement. Welcome Home!

Thanksgiving dinner came early for the first-year residents on Monday, Nov. 18, as their Faculty in the Halls served up a delicious meal with all the trimmings. Communication professors Leeanne Bell McManus and Chip Rouse joined their Faculty in the Hall comrade and nursing professor Laurel Moody to dish up a great homestyle meal to a horde of hungry freshmen. The traditional meal is an annual event that couldn't happen without the help of the Residence Life staff. (Photo by Tiffany Sanchez)

As the second edition of their event planning textbook gets ready for publication, three of Stevenson's communication professors, (l-r) Stephanie Verni, Chip Rouse and Leeanne Bell McManus, attended the Kendall Hunt Publishing reception on Friday, Nov. 15 at the Capital Grille. Here, they stop for a photo with Paul Carty, Kendall Hunt's director of publishing partnerships. In conjunction with the National Communication Association's convention that was concurrently held in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Kendall Hunt Publishing took the time to celebrate all its faculty authors.

Students, faculty, and staff members joined Professor Stephanie Verni for a Travel Writing Workshop designed to enhance their ability to write about their travels. Verni has taught courses in travel writing in which she requires students in the class to travel somewhere and write about it, in both descriptive and reflective forms. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Stevenson library and held in the Learning Commons lab as a part of the Arts Alive! initiative.