Valeta Wensloff

Undergraduate Director, Outreach Specialist & Internship Coordinator

Department

Media & Information

wensloff@msu.edu
(517) 432-5669

Bio

Valeta evangelizes for the department by disseminating information about faculty projects, grants, and classes. She provides website, graphical, and branding support for departmental events, the Meaningful Play conference, minors (such as Serious Games and Information Technology) and Media Sandbox-related projects. In addition, she is the Internship Coordinator and facilitates for-credit internships. She received her M.A. from the Department of Media and Information (formerly Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media) at MSU, with an emphasis on Digital Media Art & Technology, and received her B.S. from Ferris State University in Television Production. She currently teaches CAS 204: Web Design and previously taught CAS 207: Media Animation, as well as undergraduate and graduate-level Independent Studies (MI490 and MI890, respectively).

She’s currently overseeing production of courses for a new, College-wide fully-online Master of Arts program (Strategic Communication – stratcom.msu.edu).

Valeta also provides voice-overs for accommodated versions of state tests and other productions.

Roles

Undergraduate Director, Media and Information
Information Technology Minor committee
Media and Information Scholarship committee
Judge in the University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF)

Awards, Honors and Recognitions

2017: Silver ADDY for Invisible Wounds in the Integrated Advertising Campaigns, Consumer Campaign, Local category: Amol Pavangadkar (Producer/Director), Archit Batra (Associate Producer), Ian Courtney (Associate Producer), Valeta Wensloff (Designer)
2017: Bronze ADDY for Meaningful Play Conference Materials in the Integrated Branded Content, Local or Regional/National category: Valeta Wensloff (Designer), Andrew Dennis (Illustrator), Ricardo Guimaraes (Illustrator)
2017: Bronze ADDY for Beyond Bollywood Poster in the Illustration, Single category: Ricardo Guimaraes (Illustrator), Amol Pavangadkar (Producer), Valeta Wensloff (Producer)
2016 Bronze Addy for Beyond Bollywood Study Abroad materials (with Amol Pavangadkar)
2015 Bronze Addy for Meaningful Play Conference Materials (with Andrew Dennis)
Walter and Pauline Adams Academy for Instructional Excellence and Innovation Fellow
2014 Silver Addy for MSU Media Summer Camps materials
2013 Silver Addy for Meaningful Play Conference Materials
2012 Silver Addy for Media Sandbox Website (with Henry Brimmer)

Contact Information

404 Wilson Rd. Room 411
Communication Arts and Sciences Building
Michigan State University