# @nuschoolofcommunication on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ5Ga9XRXXb
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30805901-nuschoolofcommunication-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-20T22:30:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NU's School of Communication (@nuschoolofcommunication) — https://gondola.cc/nuschoolofcommunication

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Let's Go 'Cats!😼🔥 #RTVF professors Pierce Gradone, Brett Neveu, and Ozge Samanci's projects were among the 29 grants funded by The Alumnae of Northwestern University for the 2025-2026 academic year!

The organization awarded $134,000 to Northwestern faculty and staff for a wide range of projects, including research support, technological improvements, classroom equipment, curricular programs, podcast/film projects, and symposia/meetings.

Gradone's project "Media Composition Sequence" will be an expansion of a current #NUSoC course into a two-course sequence. These two courses will expand the RTVF’s current offerings in #sound, count towards the Sound Design minor, and be accessible to all Northwestern students.

Neveu's funding will be used on a documentary video of the "HARMONY" conference occurring in May 2025, attended by NU students. The purpose of the conference is to share, bond, and build teamwork, and to bridge computer science and documentary film-making. The video that is made will be used in future teaching.

Finally, Samanci will use her funding to create a participatory conversational AI installation, where the audience can engage in dialogue with the piece. The interaction will draw parallels between microplastics and data pollution.

#SoCSeriousPlay at its finest.

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The Alumnae of Northwestern University is an all-volunteer organization of women that raises funds for numerous projects and showcases the University’s academic resources with the community through its Continuing Education Program. 

#Northwestern #northwesternuniversity #soc #ContinuingEducation #datapollution #microplastics #documentaryfilmmaking #filmmaking #compsci  #soundarts #sounddesign #computer #northwesternalumni #northwesternalumnae #seriousplay

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rtvf, nusoc, filmmaking, northwestern, northwesternuniversity, computer, microplastics, continuingeducation, northwesternalumnae, documentaryfilmmaking, seriousplay, datapollution, northwesternalumni, compsci, socseriousplay, sound, soc, sounddesign, soundarts

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