Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication presented a journalism professor with an award after first honoring the man who it’s named after.
The Guido H. Stempel III Award for Research in Journalism and Mass Communication was named for Guido Stempel, an OU professor emeritus.
The Stempel award was presented to Pamela Shoemaker Thursday night in the Schoonover Center lobby after the event was moved from Scripps Hall, where it was too cold to be held.
Shoemaker is a professor of communication at Syracuse University, located in Syracuse, NY, where she teaches her own brand of creative research.
She was Stempel’s student in the 1970s while at OU completing her undergraduate degree. Stempel taught Shoemaker quantitative research.
“Guido has a witty, dry sense of humor, and I never knew if he was joking or complaining about something,” Shoemaker said.
Shoemaker previously taught at Ohio State University and the University of Texas at Austin.
Stempel was the only professor in the College of Communication to be recognized as a distinguished professor. He’s been a faculty member at OU since 1965.
“There is nothing very common about the recipient of the award,” said Robert Stewart, director of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.
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