{"id":191529,"date":"2026-05-13T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191529\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:14:07","slug":"corporate-communication-students-professor-recognized-in-statewide-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191529\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate communication students, professor recognized in statewide competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State Scranton student winners are:<br \/>\nCategory 58B \u2014 Collegiate Writing \u2014 Features<\/p>\n<p>Honorable Mention \u2014 Marbella Duricko, Penn State Scranton, for \u201cCommunity Spotlight: Coffee Inclusive\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This project was part of a community partnership with Rich Perry of Wilkes-Barre POWER. Longo used her LinkedIn profile to ask her contacts if they had any opportunities for a student to write content that would help them get some professional clips. Perry responded and Duricko\u2019s \u201cCoffee Inclusive&#8221; was the first piece she wrote for POWER\u2019s website, showing how vital community partnerships are for students, Longo explained.<\/p>\n<p>Category 60 \u2014 Collegiate \u2014 Podcast \u2014 Created\/Produced by Student<\/p>\n<p>First Place \u2014 Marbella Duricko, \u201cIntercultural Interludes: Felicity He\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Second Place \u2014 Emma Bannon for \u201cIntercultural Interludes: Professor Allen Babiarz-Lira\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarbella\u2019s first-place award and Emma\u2019s second-place award were from CAS 471: Intercultural Communication,\u201d Longo explained. \u201cI continued the podcast assignment that Zamarra Vrabel won first place statewide\/nationwide (Jim Bernosky got second place statewide last year) for this class. The students were tasked with recording, editing and producing their own podcasts. The prompt was to interview someone from a different culture than their own and to use the various techniques we had been studying, like intercultural communication competence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Category 61A \u2014 Collegiate \u2014 Art and Design (print or electronic)<\/p>\n<p>Second Place \u2014 Marbella Duricko \u201cCultural Exploration Blog\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This project was a blog assignment from Longo\u2019s CAS 471: Intercultural Communication class in which students designed and created a blog that told the story of how they interacted with various cultures in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Category 62 \u2014 Collegiate \u2014 Public Relations Campaign<\/p>\n<p>First Place \u2014 Zamarra Vrabel for \u201cSupport Starts Here: PSU Scranton Mental Health Resources\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This project was a video Vrabel created for her CC 401: Internal Communication class as her final project. The class was tasked with creative a video based on what they learned all semester to effectively market on-campus services to other students. Vrabel worked with campus counselor Sarah Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an educator, I try to move beyond theory and into application,\u201d Longo said. \u201cThese awards prove that our students are not just competing at a collegiate level but are meeting the professional standards expected by industry leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State Scranton student winners are: Category 58B \u2014 Collegiate Writing \u2014 Features Honorable Mention \u2014 Marbella Duricko,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-191529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}