Ann Searight Christiano

View the photo gallery on Facebook → Congratulations to our winners from the 2015 awards banquet, held April 20, 2015. Chad Furst, who will graduate this spring with a public relations degree, received the Ruth and Rae O. Weimer Award. This award, named for the founding director and first dean…

Ann Christiano, the Frank and Betsy Karel Endowed Chair in Public Interest Communication and Professor of Public Relations at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, was named the 2014-15 University of Florida Teacher of the Year, Dean Diane McFarlin announced today. The award was presented Monday evening…

My next TED talk will be about this one. Public Relations Professor and Karel Chair in Public Interest Communications Ann Christiano writes about giving her talk at TEDxUF 2015 in the article, “My next TED talk will be about this one,” published March 26, 2015 in the UF CJC Collection…

To end a day filled with speakers, frank invited the Gainesville community to join it and its attendees for night of food, fun and live music. On Thursday evening, more than 3,000 people gathered in Bo Diddley Downtown Community Plaza for a street fair to hear music from opening act…

Public Relations professor Ann Christiano, the first Frank Karel Chair in Public Interest Communications, takes the podium at the Nov. 18, 2010 event celebrating the establishment of the endowed chair. Related: Photo gallery from the event on the College’s Facebook page Ann Christiano introduced as nation’s first endowed professor in…

Ann Christiano Nation’s first-of-its-kind program named for Frank Karel, UF alumnus and pioneer in the field Ann Christiano, former senior communications officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ, was introduced today as the nation’s first recipient of an endowed professorship in Public Interest Communications – the Frank…