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J-School Calendar of Events:

Fall 2012 Nov. 20 Ad Club All meetings will be held at 7:00

p.m. in 100 Stauffer-Flint Hall. All meetings are scheduled on Tuesdays.

Nov. 21-23

Thanksgiving Break

No classes 11/21-23, offices closed 11/22-23

Nov. 27 Professor Robert Rowland of the department of communication studies will discuss presidential inaugural addresses in JOUR 201

Nov. 27 PRSSA All meetings will be held at 7:00 p.m. in 100 Stauffer-Flint Hall.

Nov. 29 Media Crossroads will host "A Conversation with Steven Hawley" at 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 29. Hawley, a KU professor and former astronaut, flew five Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s. Junior journalism student Trevor Graff will lead the discussion.

Media Crossroads, 10 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Nov. 29 Sir Robert class visit (Guth’s J201) December Campaigns Presentations Dec. 4 Guth Campaigns Presentations:

City of Greensburg, KS JOUR 640 Strategic Campaigns presentation to representatives of the City of Greensburg, Kansas. 7:00 p.m. in the Clarkson Gallery in Stauffer-Flint. There will be a telecommunications links between the gallery and people in the Media Center in the Kiowa County Commons in Greensburg.

Dec. 4 Ad Club All meetings will be held at 7:00 p.m. in 100 Stauffer-Flint Hall.

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All meetings are scheduled on Tuesdays.

Dec. 6 Last day of fall classes Dec. 6 Basow Campaign Presentation –

Straub International 7 p.m.

Dec. 7 Faculty - Special meeting to vote on curriculum

10 – 11:30 a.m. 206 S-F.

Dec. 7 Stop day

Dec. 7 An Evening with Rich Clarkson Join us to dedicate the Clarkson Gallery. 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Clarkson Gallery. RSVP to Natasha Veeser (tashj@ku.edu).

Dec. 10-14 Finals

Dec. 11 CEHCUP official inauguration ** NEW DATE **

CEHCUP (Clarkson Gallery) 5 p.m. Refreshments and hors d’oeurves will be served. Please RSVP to CEHCUP@ku.edu by November 30, 2012

Dec. 11 Bengtson Campaign Presentation – Minsky’s Pizza

7:30 – 10:30 a.m., Alderson Auditorium (Kansas Union)

Dec. 21 Fall grades due

Dec. 24-25

Christmas Holiday Offices closed

Jan. 1 New Year’s Holiday Offices closed Jan. 21 Martin Luther King Day Holiday Offices closed Spring 2013 Jan. 22 First day of spring classes Feb.8 William Allen White Day – Frank

Deford is the 2013 recipient of the national citation.

Adams Alumni Center, Kansas Union & Stauffer-Flint Hall, additional details tba

Feb. 1 Faculty Meeting 206 SF, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Feb. 24 KSPA Regional Competition

Mar. 8 Faculty Meeting 206 SF, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Mar. 18-22

Spring Break

Apr. 16 School of Journalism Awards & Scholarships Ceremony

Kansas Room & Malott Room, 4:00–5:30 pm

Apr. 25-28

JEA/NSPA Spring Convention San Francisco, CA

May 9 Last day of classes May 10 Faculty Meeting 206 SF, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. May 10 Stop day

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May 12-17 Finals May 18 J-School Graduate Recognition Lied Center and Stauffer-Flint lawn May 19 Commencement Memorial Stadium, 10:30 am

May 27 Memorial Holiday Offices closed Jun. 4 First day of classes

Jun. 23-27

Kansas Journalism Institute

Faculty/Staff News:

Mugur Geana's health communication project developed in collaboration with the University of Costa Rica has received a second year of funding, including additional funding from KU's International Programs. The project focuses on addressing the dengue epidemic in one of the poorest regions of Costa Rica; Barbara Barnett, as well as researchers from KUMC and JCCC are partners in this research and intervention enterprise. On November 13, Geana attended the Johnson County Community Summit on Suicide Prevention. The event, organized by Johnson County Mental Health Services, focused on identifying key community partners as well as potential strategies to address this growing problem in Kansas and nationwide. Geana promoted CEHCUP as a possible partner and research resource for the development of any strategic communication intervention for the community. Scott Reinardy's paper “Liars, Killers and Bobbleheads: Behind the Rhetoric of the Target Market Anti-tobacco Campaign” appeared in the fall 2012 issue of Journal of Media Psychology. He co-authored the paper with LSU assistant professor Jensen Moore. Jerry Crawford was an invited presenter for the Jesse B. Semple Brownbag Series, sponsored by the Langston Hughes Center at the University of Kansas, November 12, 2012. Topic: Accreditation and Challenges of HBCUs. He discussed the historical mission of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, accreditation (NCATE/SACS) importance, Title III & Title IV funding and the threat of mergers and elimination of these institutions today. Crawford was also an invited presenter at the Asian American High School Leadership Symposium. University of Kansas, November 15, 2012. His topic to the students was "Social Media, Organization and Leadership". He discussed social branding, web design, career choices and higher education strategies. Hands-on presentation that students were able to create websites, video conferencing and examine and start to develop self-awareness of theirs and others' management styles. Media Crossroads will host "A Conversation with Steven Hawley" at 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 29. Hawley, a KU professor and former astronaut, flew five Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s. Junior journalism student Trevor Graff will lead the discussion. The event is free and open to the public. Approximately 25 reporters attended “Common Ground: The Media, the Military, and Post-traumatic Stress,” a one-day workshop sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism. The workshop, held Nov. 16 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., brought together experts from the medical community, the military, and the media to discuss how journalists can better report on post-traumatic stress (PTS) among returning troops and discuss how journalists can better cope with their own PTS. Barbara Barnett planned and coordinated the workshop, which involved KU faculty, staff, and students. Dean Ann Brill delivered the welcome, along with Mark Harmick, KU alum and business reporter for the Associated Press in Washington, D.C. Mugur Geana and Tom Volek helped moderate the three panels.

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Communications coordinator Natasha Veeser and master’s student Kylee McCullough posted tweets from the conference on the j-school website. Undergrad Sara Sneath covered the workshop and student Hannah Wise took photos and developed the workshop website. Master’s student Zak Beasley helped with workshop planning, and undergrad Brent Whitten spoke about his own experiences with PTS. The workshop, funded by the McCormick Foundation, was live-streamed on the j-school website. Next month the j-school will post a link to the entire workshop proceedings on its website and the workshop website: commongroundtrauma.org The medical panel included: Susan Borja of the National Institute for Mental Health and the U.S. Army’s STARRS research project on PTS; Col. Charles Engle, a U.S. Army physician who studies PTS; Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, Department of Defense; James Mundt, Center for Training, Psychiatric Research and Consultation; and Dr. Paula Schnurr, deputy executive director of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD. The military panel included: Sonja Batten, deputy chief consultant for the special mental health, Veterans Affairs Central Office; Anu Bhagwati, executive director of the Service Women’s Action Network; Brig. Gen. Robert F. Hedelund, director of the Marine and Family Programs Division; Lt. Col. Michael Jason, commander of the U.S. Army’s 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment; and Brent Whitten, KU journalism student who was wounded in Iraq. The media panel included: Julie Jacobson, Associated Press photographer and j-school alum; Dr. Anthony Feinstein, who has written extensively about journalists and Post-traumatic stress; Sig Christenson, president of Military Reporters and Editors, who has embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan; Lara Jakes, national security writer for the Associated Press and former Baghdad AP chief of bureau; Susannah Nesmith, a freelance journalist who has covered wars in Iraq and Colombia; and Jackie Spinner, Columbia College assistant professor and former Washington Post correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Alumni and Student News:

Hannah Wise (Spring 2013 Editor-in-chief) announces the Spring 2013 Kansan management staff.

Mary Ryan, who received her bachelor’s in journalism from KU, is the newly appointed interim vice chancellor of the KU Edwards campus. Sara Swezy, 2011, was offered a permanent position at Hamburger Company (a media consulting firm) after being brought on as a Political Media Associate over the summer. Opportunities:

Hearst Competition Deadlines: Students, contact Scott Reinardy for more information or to submit an entry. Students can win up to $2,600 for first place and the top five place winners also receive cash prizes. These awards are considered the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism. Dec. 4: Multimedia: Features Dec. 11: Writing: Enterprise Reporting Jan. 29: Multimedia: Human Condition Feb. 5: Writing: Sports Feb. 12: Television: News Feb. 19: Multimedia: Enterprise Feb. 26: Photo: Picture Story/Series March 6: Writing: Personality/Profile April 2: Writing: Breaking News April 9: Multimedia: Team Reporting – News

Check out the entries that have already been submitted: Feature Writing: Laura Nightengale, Hannah Wise Photos -- News and Features: Chris Neal, Tara Bryant Radio News/Features: Patrick Strathman TV Features: Lisa Anderson, Jonathan Cooper Summer Ethics Fellowships for Graduate Students Interested in Careers in Journalism FASPE Journalism, one component of a larger program for graduate students in several professional fields, uses the conduct of reporters and media professionals in Nazi Ger-many and the Holocaust as a launching point for an intensive course of study on journal-ism ethics. FASPE is predicated upon the power of place, and in particular the first-hand experience of visiting Auschwitz and traveling through Germany and Poland where Fel-lows study the past and consider how to apply the lessons of history as they confront the ethical challenges of their profession today.

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In 2013 FASPE will take a group of 10-15 graduate students working towards careers in journalism on an all expenses-paid program from New York to Berlin, Oświęcim (Auschwitz), and Nuremberg where they will examine such topics as: the ethical chal-lenges in reporting human rights abuses, the relationship between state authority and jour-nalism (including censorship and propaganda), the ethics of photographing violence, and the role of media in creating and remembering the historical narrative. The tentative program dates in 2013 are from Sunday, May 26 to Thursday, June 6. The fellowships, worth $10,000, will cover all program costs, including international and European travel, lodging, and food. To apply or to learn more about FASPE, visit: www.FASPE.info. Completed applica-tions are due by January 11, 2013. All students enrolled in graduate programs at the time of their applications are eligible. Award notification will be mailed by March 15. Students of all religious, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The Journalism Career Center is accepting donations through November 30 for the professional clothing closet housed at the University Career Center. The closet gives professional clothing to students who need them for interviews, career fairs and other professional events. We are accepting suits, dress shirts, skirts, ties and blazers. You may drop your items off at the Journalism Career Center, which is Patty Noland's office, 120 Stauffer-Flint. Join us for the official dedication of the Richard C. Clarkson Gallery on Dec. 7 at 5:30 p.m.