Submitting laurels for publication in The President's Message? Please be sure your submission meets the criteria for inclusion and follows our style guidelines.
Criteria
Laurels are submitted by the communications departments of UMB’s schools as well as by representatives in Universitywide offices.
Each month, submitters are asked to forward the names and photographs of any faculty, staff, and/or students who have recently received kudos to the Office of Communications and Public Affairs (OCPA) so we can include them.
Please note: The Office of the President is not responsible for errors in these self-submitted laurels.
Guidelines
Items should be 50 words or fewer and include the following information:
- Name, title, full department/office name, and graduate degree(s) of person(s) honored. (If the submission includes several UMB people, list them all, such as co-authors on a paper, in the order the names appear in the publication byline.)
- For faculty titles: include professor, associate professor, assistant professor, etc., first, then one other title if applicable, such as a chair or director position.
- Title or brief description of honor or published material.
- Name of organization/business presenting the honor, or the publication printing the written material. Please indicate the type of publication, such as journal, magazine, or online newsletter.
- Date and place the honor was announced or presented (if applicable).
- We prefer that the award be work/University-related. Promotions are accepted as laurels but new hires are not.
- We ask that you take a moment to alphabetize your laurels by last name before submitting them. And please note that if your submissions are not alphabetized and/or do not follow the general rules listed above, they will not be included in The President’s Message.
Photos
- Photos submitted should be high resolution only.
- Please note that photos generated by artificial intelligence (AI) programs will not be accepted.
Here are some best practices for submitting photos:
- Please find the most recent high-resolution photos that are in focus, and “save as ...” onto your computer, rather than dragging and dropping images from the web.
- If the photo looks small on the screen, then it’s too small.
- Photos meant for combined web-and-PDF use, like those used in The President’s Message, need to be bigger than photos just meant for the web only.
Schools and offices are asked to limit their laurels to the most deserving to keep the newsletter at an easily readable length. Twenty is the limit from each school’s chief contributor.
Our goal is to get as many new faces as possible in the newsletter. If a person’s picture has appeared in the prior newsletter, we will use the text of the new item but likely not the picture. Use of photos is at the discretion of OCPA’s editorial and design teams after assessing what has been submitted.
