Diederich College of Communication

🗣️ Associate Professor Dr. Emily Cramer shared her expertise at the Milwaukee VA Women's Health Summit this summer. Her presentation, "Communicating Resilience in Maternal Health," focused on affirming identity, establishing routines and building networks of support to improve pregnancy health outcomes.

💉 In addition to her research, Cramer leads our health communication minor, which equips students with the written, verbal, strategic and medical knowledge required to be ethical communicators.

Back-to-school shopping and want a way to drown out your noisy dorm neighbors? Draylin Pickett, a rising senior in the college, talked with Wirecutter about his favorite ways to beat the noise as an RA.

(Draylin is entering his third year of being an RA and if you're on his floor, you're getting a really good one 😄 )

How to Drown Out Noisy Neighbors, According to Dorm RAs College kids can be pretty noisy neighbors. Here’s how veteran RAs drown out the sound and reclaim their peace.

📈 The percentage of Diederich College of Communication students who complete an internship is more than 10 points above the national average.

🌎 Our students work for English soccer clubs, local nonprofits, Fortune 500 companies, multimedia production firms and everything in between, taking their Marquette education beyond the classroom in a way that will set them up for success after graduation.

🤔 Don't have an internship yet? Had one and want another one? Search around on Handshake, make an appointment at the career center, or email our college's internship coordinator, Sheena Carey, to get started!

👏 Bridget Case, Comm ’16, received an Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie category for her work on the Netflix miniseries “Death by Lightning,” a historical drama about the life of President James Garfield.

🔗 Read more using the link in the comments!

No students in the building to focus a camera on? Just use Giant Cardboard Iggy instead! 🦅

Students who are in MUTV get to use our state-of-the-art virtual studio. The walls themselves are a blank canvas for whatever you want to create. Think of ideas for the next few weeks, and then bring them to life when Fall semester starts later this month.

(And feel free to move Iggy out of the way when you get here.)

We are saddened to report that Dave Foran, an emeritus professor in the then-College of Journalism, died at the age of 89.

Foran taught print, broadcast news and feature writing at the college while also serving in Marquette's public relations department. He is a Class of 1959 graduate and a former Marquette Tribune sports editor.

Please hold the Foran family in your prayers.

Marquette University mourns the loss of David J. Foran | Marquette Today David Foran, an emeritus professor in the then-College of Journalism, passed away in Glendale, Wisconsin at age 89.

Happy 70th birthday to our internship coordinator, Sheena Carey! 🎂 🎉

Sheena has been with us for more than 35 years, and has helped thousands of students start their careers off on the right foot.

New students, be sure to pop by Sheena’s office and say hello!

(And if you have good book recommendations, she’s all ears 📚)

Save the date!

Our Student Sport Summit and Axthelm Memorial Lecture will be Friday, Oct. 2. Panelists and alumni from around the world of sports are going to share their stories and expertise with our students.

Jenny Fischer, Class of 2019 alumna and senior manager of NBA social and digital on-site content, will be this year's Axthelm speaker.

Diederich College of Communication to host combined Student Sport Summit, Axthelm Lecture on Oct. 2 | Marquette Today The combined Student Sport Summit and Axthelm Lecture will be held on Friday, October 2 as part of Marquette Mission Week.

Rising senior Mikey Severson is doing it all this summer!

🎥 Video production staffer for the Kane County Cougars
📸 Video production for Boom Ball from multiple camera positions
✍️ Reporter for the Marquette Wire
🍱 Food and beverage operations at his hometown conference center

At Marquette, Mikey is a comm coach and intramural sports official. We look forward to welcoming him (and all of our students) back in just over a month!

Anyone else up to anything cool with the rest of their break? ☀️

⭐️ We’re continuing our superstar intern series with Anna Heffernan, who is working with Friends of Hank Aaron State Trail this summer.

📱 Her social media chair role entails documenting summer events in Milwaukee for multiple platforms. She takes photos, edits video and manages accounts for one of the city’s most important environmental nonprofits.

👩‍🎓 When she’s not interning, Anna is a leader for SPARK pre-orientation, an alumni ambassador and the social media chair for art club.