URI public relations student Emily Miller of Uxbridge honored for outstanding achievement

KINGSTON – The University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media honored 12 students March 22 at its annual Public Relations Excellence Award Ceremony. The awards were presented in the following categories: community impact, campus involvement, leadership, global impact, most innovative and outstanding internship.

Emily Miller of Uxbridge, Mass., received the Leadership Most Innovative Award.

Fellow recipient, Lance Faria, nominated Miller for this award for her involvement in class and her willingness to help other students. Miller and Faria are participating in an internship with the College of Pharmacy. Their mission is to promote a drug awareness initia- tive in Rhode Island middle schools. They successfully created a social media plan to promote the initiative.

This year’s honorary chair was URI alumna Laura Shubel, ‘15, a double major in public relations and French graduated from URI in 2015. She distinguished herself in an internship at the Alliance Francaise of Providence where she quickly progressed and finally planned the organization’s very first event. Shubel is now a senior account coordinator at Caster Communications. But she has not forgotten URI. She teaches in URI’s Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. She visits several classes during the year to share her professional experience with public relations students.