Spotlights

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Faculty Spotlight: Warren Etheredge
January 9, 2026
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Student Spotlight: Bella Quilici
December 2, 2025
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Alumni Spotlight: Shea Formanes
November 4, 2025
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Student Spotlight: Ellie Bradbury
May 27, 2025
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Faculty Spotlight: Golden Owens
March 11, 2025
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Rin Huang
January 28, 2025
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Connor Telford
January 28, 2025
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Mavis Siu 
January 28, 2025
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Student Spotlight: Kellen McClure
November 10, 2024
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Student Spotlight: Kenneth Zacher 
February 23, 2024
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Student Spotlight: Emily Xu
May 30, 2023
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Student Spotlight: Kenna Fojas
May 22, 2023
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Alumni Spotlight: Lo Brown
February 22, 2023
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Anna Parkhurst
December 9, 2022
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Student Spotlight: Chloe Nolan
October 31, 2022
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Alumni Spotlight: Long Hoàng Trần
October 5, 2021
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Welcome Professor Diana Flores Ruíz!
September 20, 2021
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Student Spotlight: Cynthia Li
April 27, 2021
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Sound Bite podcast: Cinema Studies with Eric Ames
January 28, 2021
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Sound Bite podcast: Screenwriting with Shawn Wong (Americanese) 
January 28, 2021
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Student Spotlight: Jackson Zaro
January 28, 2021
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Faculty Spotlight: LeiLani Nishime, Adjunct Professor of CMS
October 12, 2020
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Student Spotlight: Sora Hong
May 27, 2020
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Student Spotlight: Marcus Lux
April 13, 2020
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Student Spotlight: Vivian Chuang
March 30, 2020
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Student Spotlight: Mick Stanovsek
March 9, 2020
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Student Spotlight: Zachary Chilcote
January 23, 2020
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Alumni Spotlight: Casey Moore
November 13, 2019
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Diversity and representation in Crazy Rich Asians
August 2, 2019
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Student Spotlight: Greg Arietta
May 21, 2019
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Student Spotlight: Emma Craft
March 12, 2019
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Student Spotlight: Kai Scheer
February 14, 2019
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Student Spotlight: Max Tvorun-Dunn
January 30, 2019
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Faculty Spotlight: Jennifer Bean
October 5, 2018
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Kathy Morrow
September 27, 2018
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CMS major Justin Roach featured in Perspectives Newsletter
June 6, 2018
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Ellen Chang
May 31, 2018
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Student Spotlight: Ryan Swen
May 7, 2018
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Student Spotlight: Gabi Capestany
April 2, 2018
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Faculty Spotlight: Stephen Groening
March 27, 2018
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Student Spotlight: Ben Burr-Kirven 
March 5, 2018
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Alumni Spotlight: Tristan Seniuk
February 6, 2018
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Student Spotlight: Megan Bernovich
January 26, 2018
Faculty Spotlight: James Tweedie
January 26, 2018