Janese Silvey
Story Specialist/Strategist for Stephens College
What would you change about campus?
Attention faculty, staff and current students (sorry, Mom). Our campus planning guru, Richard Perkins, needs your help. Stephens is in the midst of a planning process to determine how campus spaces can be used more efficiently in the future. Some [...]
Theatre students gearing up for Okoboji season
Earlier this week, I told you about what our theatre students are up to on campus this summer—learning the art of stage combat. “Slaphappy” is at 7:30 p.m. tonight, by the way, at the Warehouse Theatre if anyone’s interested in [...]
Students learning the fine art of pretend fighting
Stephens College students have spent the past week learning how to fight. Ouch! OK, they’re not really fighting (although it looks real!). The students in the photo (courtesy of the Summer Theatre Institute’s Facebook page) are learning and practicing the [...]
Faculty members take on bullying in new film
A couple of our amazingly talented faculty members are teaming up this summer to produce a short film in Columbia. Steph Borklund in our Digital Film department came up with the idea of “I Am One,” a short that [...]
Stephens’ ‘Star Trek’ connection
Well here’s a fun fact to start your work week. Stephens has a connection to “Star Trek Into Darkness,” released in theatres this weekend. Chris Pine (below) who plays the attractive young James Kirk, is the grandson of Anne Gwynne [...]
Alumna mobile phone film featured on festival site
I’m learning so much about the film industry at Stephens. Our film faculty members are so awesome and talented and passionate about the industry. I’m also discovering that digital media is making the industry, once reserved for film school graduates, [...]
Stephens alumna ‘breaks ground’ in modeling biz
Stephens alumna Jennie Runk has been making news for being normal. Well, actually, she’s not that normal. She’s absolutely beautiful. But she is a normal size. And then a big-named swimsuit company had the audacity to put her in a bikini and [...]
A career highlight — but no regrets
So last week I got word that I will receive the Iris Molotsky Award for Excellence in Coverage of Higher Education reporting from the American Association of University Professors. And it’s seriously a career highlight. Not to brag (OK maybe [...]
Stephens employee a finalist in story contest
It’s funny how you can work alongside someone and know nothing about their lives–what they’ve been through, why they do what they do and how much they’ve overcome. I knew from my first month at Stephens that Sandie Heckman is [...]
Love & marriage Stephens’ style circa 1950
Today I discovered this gem. It’s a short film called “Choosing for Happiness” shot, in part, on the Stephens College campus by Henry Bowman, who taught a marriage course here in the 1930s through early 1950s. The video, part of [...]
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