Dr. Chung receives Alumnus of the Year Award from UCLA Film, Television, and Digital Media Department

By Lindsay McNeish On Friday, March 24, Dr. Hye Seung Chung was awarded the Alumnus of the Year for UCLA’s Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at the 2017 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference held in Chicago. Established in 2012, the award has been presented to seven other scholars including world-renowned film […]

2nd edition of ACT Human Rights Film Festival set for April 14-21

The second edition of the ACT Human Rights Film Festival opens Friday, April 14, at CSU’s Lory Student Center Theater. The weeklong festival features the most critically acclaimed and recently released international documentary films that explore a range of human rights themes, including art as resistance, women’s rights, war and genocide, immigration and exile, LGBTQ […]

Spring 2017 Alumni Panels

Spring Alumni Panels are right around the corner! Learn about the wide range of careers that Communication Studies alumni pursue. Guests include recent graduates and long-standing professionals. Join these Communication Studies Alumni March 29 at 2 p.m. and March 30 at 9:30 a.m in LSC Room 308. Wednesday, March 29 panelists: Jake Gunn (‘15) – […]

ACT hosts intimate screening of WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS with director Beth Murphy

The ACT Human Rights Film Festival will host director Beth Murphy and her award-winning 2016 documentary, WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS, at 7 p.m.on Wednesday, March 1, at the Sie FilmCenter in Denver. ACT’s director of programming, Dr. Scott Diffrient, will moderate an intimate post-screening Q&A session with Murphy. A private reception with Murphy and film attendees […]

(Re)start and Renew

Welcome, all, to 2017. I hope and trust your new year is starting well. I know mine has started with wonderful adventures and I know, too, that I am ready to settle back into the routine of the cool job I have which is, at its base, hanging out with all of you. Over the […]

Join CMST and ACT at the Dr. MLK Jr. March and Celebration Jan. 16

Staff, volunteers, and friends of the ACT Human Rights Film Festival, produced by CSU’s Department of Communication Studies, will join the annual Dr. MLK Jr. March & Celebration in Old Town Square at 11 a.m. on Monday, January 16, 2017. Participants will march from downtown Fort Collins to the Lory Student Center for a community […]

An amazing semester

And now the Friday of exam week. Commencement services are beginning. Final grades are getting entered. Students are leaving. Bells are ringing. Are you listening? Listening to the increasing quiet on campus and the growing craziness in Old Town? An amazing semester, don’t you think? Let’s talk money for just a second. CPD just received […]