April 30, 2026

MSU Ads Club Tackles NFL Charities Campaign

Ads Club Competes at AAF in Dayton, OH this April.

After a four-year absence, the MSU Ads Club competed in the National Student Advertising Competition hosted by the American Advertising Federation. The 2025-2026 NSAC assignment asked students to create a branding campaign for National Football League charities. Ads Club members presented their entry in the District 5 preliminary round in Kettering, Ohio (Dayton area), on April 18, 2026. Presenters were (from left) Abigail Price, Georgia Hall, Joshua Suttles and Derek Hess. Price received the Best Presenter Award.

Elizabeth Thomas

I Never Wrote A Slogan – My Journey from Murray State to Spotify

By Megan (Summers) Haneline (ADV ’13) Too many years ago, I was sitting among the cluttered bookcases in Professor Welsch’s office, daydreaming of having my own office someday, when he asked where I saw myself after graduation. I’m sure my answer was something like writing catchy slogans at an ad agency in New York City. […]

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The Lisa Crites Story: Broadcast Journalist to Breast Cancer Survivor, Patented Inventor and Author

Lisa Crites began her studies at Murray State in 1985 as a music major scholarship recipient. While expanding her talent as a classical pianist during her freshman year, she was drawn to journalism. “The music department was on the 3rd floor, and journalism was on the 6th, of the same building. Once I began hanging […]

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A Note From the Chair: A Ballast in the Midst of Change

The president of Murray State is still in his first year. Our VP of finance is in her first year, too. And the new provost will begin on July 1. The JMC department is in its first year of a revised curriculum. One newly minted PhD will join the ranks of the JMC faculty this […]