Houston Wells

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) students and faculty have received awards in the 2023 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts competitions. The competition results include 299 student winners from 82 different colleges and universities and 60 faculty winners from 46 colleges and universities. In…

Film footage by Houston Wells, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Media, Production, Management, and Technology senior lecturer, was included in stories promoting “gopher farming” in The New York Times, The Atlantic, EcoWatch, National Geographic,  Popular Science, Futurity and others. The media stories focused on southeastern pocket gopher…

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications students and alumni were recently honored in the 2021 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts Competition. The 2021 Best of Festival winners were selected from a pool of over 1,300 entries, representing over 250 colleges and universities in the following…

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications honored outstanding alumni, faculty, staff and graduate and undergraduate students during its annual awards banquet on April 12, 2019. A copy of the Awards Banquet, with explanations of the named awards, is available here. The College inducted four alumni into its…

James Babanikos, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Telecommunication professor, has received an Accolade Global Film Competition Award of Merit for “Fred Turns Fifty” in the Film Short Category. Currently in its 14th year, the avant-garde worldwide competition strives to give talented directors, producers, actors, creative teams and…