![Esther Phenna](/sites/default/files/article-thumbnail/marcomm_esther_phenna_300x242.jpg)
Thanks to the Lance Clem Scholarship Fund, the MFJS department is able to award scholarships to a handful of lucky students to help fund their summer internships.
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In July 2019, six Media, Film & Journalism Studies professors attended the International Association for Media and Communication Research conference in Madrid, Spain.
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On April 22, students from DU's multicultural journalism class were welcomed into the First Unitarian Society of Denver, where activist and immigrant Jeanette Vizguerra has taken sanctuary, to hear her truth.
![Ryan Kistler and Daniel Estes](/sites/default/files/article-thumbnail/grad_students-double_pic-300x242.jpg)
In a community filled with talk about climate change and its negative impacts, two MFJS graduate students are pursuing sustainability-focused internships
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The Public Diplomacy Certificate was launched in fall 2019 as a joint program of the Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies and the Josef Korbel School of International Studies.
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Carley St. Clair (MS ’16), a recent graduate of DU’s media and public communication master’s program, is using her degree to serve the public good.