This year's program includes 7 professors recognized for their outstanding accomplishments as teachers, scholars, and practitioners, including:

• James Babanikos, Associate Professor, Department of Telecommunications

• Johanna Cleary, Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications.  Dr. Cleary worked for 25 years in journalism, including stints in public television, commercial and public radio, and newspapers. She has been a reporter/producer, director of marketing, and news director. 

• Robyn Goodman, Associate Professor, Department of Advertising

• Norm Lewis, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism.  Norm Lewis, has worked for newspapers for 28 years, including the Washington Post, and served as an editor in chief and publisher of daily newspapers for 15 of those years.

• Janis Page, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Relations.  Teaching since 2000, Dr. Page draws from a 20-year career managing public relations, creative services, and marketing communications for national media companies.

  Debbie Triese, Professor, Department of Advertising, and Dean of Graduate Studies, College of Journalism and Communications.

• Michael Weigold, Professor, Department of Advertising.  Weigold was the College of Journalism and Communications Teacher of the Year in 2005 and a UF International Educator of the Year in 2007.  He is also the author of a widely adopted text, Contemporary Advertising.