Lori Smith

Assistant Professor, Communication at Marietta College
From Waterford, Ohio

An assistant professor in Communication at Marietta College, Lori Smith also advises the college chapter of the American Advertising Federation and is involved with teaching in the Freshman Year Experience program. Smith is the grant coordinator for WMRT/WCMO, securing underwriting grants from community organizations to help fund programming. She teaches Media and Society, Introduction to Advertising, Advertising Copy and Design and Advertising/Public Relations Campaigns. She has also taught Introduction to Public Relations, Consumer Behavior, Selling the Sea (The Business of Cruising) and The History of Rock and Roll. Smith worked for The Marietta Times in advertising and served as the Advertising Director for six years. While working for the Gannett Company, Inc., she won the President's Certificate of Achievement, a Top 10 Gannett manager award. She also worked as a Commercial Printing Consultant for The Marietta Times and The Huntington Herald-Dispatch. Smith graduated with honors from Ohio University with a degree in journalism (major in advertising) and her M.A. is from Marietta College. She also had completed additional graduate work at Ohio University and Ashland University.

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Employees to be honored during service award ceremony on May 7

Marietta College will recognize 36 employees for their years of consecutive full-time employment and five retirees during the annual Employee Service Award and Retirement Recognition Ceremony at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 7, in the Dyson Baudo Recreation...

May, 01 2024 - Verified by Marietta College

Women's soccer team honors MC employees during recognition night

The Marietta College women's soccer team honored 17 employees during an "Employee Appreciate Day," before the Pioneers game against Mount Union on Wednesday at Marietta Field. For the past few years, the College's Sport Management program has teamed u...

October, 12 2023 - Verified by Marietta College

MC's Lori Smith receives Ohio Communication Association Distinguished Teacher Award

Marietta College's Lori Smith, an accomplished faculty member, has been honored with the 2023 Distinguished Teacher Award by the Ohio Communication Association (OCA). This esteemed recognition celebrates Smith's exceptional teaching skills and unwaveri...

October, 10 2023 - Verified by Marietta College

Heddleston '22 becomes fourth Marietta student to earn Stickell Internship

Autumn Heddleston '22 (Belpre, Ohio) is continuing a positive trend of Marietta College students earning a prestigious Vance and Betty Lee Stickell Internship. Heddleston, who will intern with Caterpillar's Oil & Gas division this summer, is the fourt...

April, 28 2021 - Verified by Marietta College

Marietta College communication professor, student stand out during state conference

Watching your undergraduate student excel during an event that includes mostly graduate students is a proud moment for any professor. Seeing that same student take top prize for the work is even better. For Dr. Cody Clemens, Assistant Professor of C...

December, 03 2020 - Verified by Marietta College

Marietta College successfully completes HLC's Year 4 Assurance Review

President Bill Ruud is pleased to announce that Marietta College has successfully completed its Year 4 Assurance Review with no recommended monitoring from the Higher Learning Commission - one of the nation's six regional accreditors for institutions o...

August, 06 2020 - Verified by Marietta College

Junior marketing student earns Stickell Honors Scholarship

Marietta College's Hannah Garofalo '21 (Leetonia, Ohio), who is majoring in Marketing, has earned the prestigious Stickell Honors Scholarship and it offers her the opportunity to work as an intern for an Austin, Texas, advertising firm this summer. ...

April, 17 2020 - Verified by Marietta College

Junior marketing student earns Stickell Honors Scholarship

April, 17 2020 - Verified by Marietta College

Marietta College students attend AAF Career Conference, connect with NYC alumni

Four Marietta College students recently visited New York City where they attended the American Advertising Federation's student career conference, toured Google's New York offices and visited with alumni. The AAF's Advertising Career Conference was ...

January, 03 2020 - Verified by Marietta College

Employees to be honored during service award ceremony on May 8

Less than 72 hours after bidding farewell to the Class of 2019, Marietta College will turn its attention to recognizing employees who have reached a milestone in service, as well as two others who are retiring. President Bill Ruud is pleased to hono...

April, 23 2019 - Verified by Marietta College

Achievements Added by Lori

Lori Smith was recognized for earning an academic award

First-Year Student Advising Award

Spring 2017 - Added by Lori

Lori Smith was recognized for earning an academic award

Alpha Lambda Delta Academic Excellence in Teaching

Spring 2011 - Added by Lori

Lori Smith was recognized for graduating

MS - Liberal Learning

Spring 2007 - Added by Lori

Lori Smith was recognized for graduating

BS - Journalism

Spring 1982 - Added by Lori