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STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥敶笙驛PP students and faculty received top awards for their broadcasting skills at the recent Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts.
In the Audio and Sports faculty division, Terry Likes颅颅鈥撯損rofessor and head of MSU鈥檚 Department of Communication鈥撯搑eceived two Best of Competition awards for his audio documentaries 鈥淪haring a Laugh: The impact of popular culture on the White House Correspondents鈥 Dinner鈥 and 鈥淐owbell Culture: Small instrument鈥撯揵ig impact鈥he cowbell as a fixture in American music, sports and popular culture.鈥
In the student Sports competition, communication graduate students Cody Blaszczak, of Pelham, Alabama, and Tanner Marlar, of Corinth, earned an Award of Excellence for play-by-play announcing. Senior geoscience major Dylan Hudler, of Kernersville, North Carolina, won second place for Best TV Weathercast for his submission from 鈥淭ake 30,鈥 MSU鈥檚 student television newscast.
More than 80 colleges and universities were represented in the virtual submission process and a total of 1,885 submissions were reviewed during the juried event.
鈥淏EA鈥檚 Festival of Media Arts is a prestigious and highly competitive national collection of faculty creative scholarship and student media work,鈥 Likes said. 鈥淭his is external validation of high-quality work, allowing students to add a national credential to their portfolio.鈥
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