Three public relations professionals have joined Widmeyer Communications: Julia Gotwald, Brad Rizza and Christina Saull. Gotwald is an account executive in the firm’s Public Affairs practice, Rizza is a senior account executive in the firm’s Higher Education practice and Saull is a senior account manager in Public Affairs. All three are based in Widmeyer’s Washington, [...]
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Judea Pearl with the 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award. This award recognizes innovations that enable remarkable advances in the partnership between humans and machines [...]
Widmeyer Communications’ client GED Testing was featured on NBC’s Today Show with a warning to beware of illegitimate websites offering fraudulent high school credentials. This affects millions of Americans and is a story we were pleased to help recount [...]
Cartoon Network premiered its new bullying documentary Speak Up, which captures the authentic, everyday stories of America’s bullied kids and the peers who have helped them. Widmeyer helped secure national media coverage of the documentary, which opens with a special message from President Barack Obama, and its premiere at a D.C. middle school with Health [...]
Widmeyer client The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) has appeared in national stories in Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes and the Yahoo! Small Business channel over the past week as an expert on crowdfunding – an emerging online business trend that enables individuals to fund businesses by pooling donations through websites that match donors with small [...]
The college admissions process can be scary and confusing for a lot of high school seniors (and their parents!). With more than 20 years’ experience, Tom Delahunt, Drake University’s Vice President for Admission and Student Financial Planning thought he knew everything about the admissions process. That changed when he helped his daughter during her search [...]
Widmeyer was pleased to support the first-ever 100Kin10 Summit, which brought together partner organizations, Carnegie Corporation of New York and Opportunity Equation leadership, along with representatives from government and other non-profit leaders to discuss how the movement will take shape to help train, retain and support 100,000 excellent STEM educators over the next ten years. [...]
Dr. Diana Martinelli, Widmeyer Professor in Public Relations at West Virginia University, has been accepted to Leadership West Virginia and will be in the Class of 2012. Fifty-six emerging leaders from across the state will be a part of this new class. Leadership West Virginia (www.leadershipwv.org) is an eight-month statewide education and leadership development program [...]
Scott Widmeyer, Chairman and CEO of Widmeyer Communications, recently announced the promotion of five staff members. “Our firm’s strength is grounded in the talent and hard work of our staff [...]
President Obama welcomed students from the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) at the second White House Science Fair on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. The students were among a select group of youth participating in the fair, which was attended by the president and his advisors [...]
