Live Oak Communications, Elon's student-run, full-service communications agency, is currently seeking qualified applicants for the spring of 2010. Live Oak develops and executes communications programs for businesses and not-for-profit organizations in the North Carolina region.

A student-produced documentary about the U.S.S. Sequoia, which served as the presidential yacht from Herbert Hoover's administration until President Jimmy Carter auctioned it off in 1977, will be screened at the Asheville Film Festival Nov. 13.

Elon Student Television's "RoadTrip" is working on reorganizing the structure of the show with new leadership positions. "RoadTrip" is looking for willing individuals to undertake new management positions.

Max Negin, an adjunct instructor in the School of Communications, worked as an editor for MLB Network's coverage of the World Series. It's the second World Series Negin has worked in his career.

A School of Communications Television Production class will be recording a pilot episode of "Elon City Lights" Nov. 11 at Lighthouse Tavern. The live-to-tape recording will feature the band The Tipsy Bacchanals.

The Pendulum, Elon University's weekly student newspaper, received a 2009 national Pacemaker Award from the Associated Collegiate Press on Oct. 31 at the organization's joint conference with College Media Advisers in Austin, Texas. The Pacemaker is the highest honor ACP gives to its members.

A day after winning a national Pacemaker award from the Associated Collegiate Press, the Pendulum was honored again by the ACP Nov. 1.

Two Communications majors have made it to the final round of voting for Lonely Planet's "My Journey" video competition, and online voting will determine the grand-prize winner.

If you're interested in living, learning and interning in Los Angeles for the summer, make sure you make your way to the Elon in Los Angeles Web site to download the program application and essay/checklist form.

The second annual "How to Succeed as a Communications Major" event was held Tuesday night in McEwen Theater. Approximately 50 students attended the event, sponsored by the Eta Gamma Chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the Communications Honor Society.

Elon students, faculty and staff visited Carousel Cinemas on Oct. 27 for the premiere of DEEP Impact, a diversity education tool that includes a student-produced film created by the Multicultural Center at Elon University.

Thomas Nelson, associate professor in the School of Communications, has had his documentary, "Prisoners of Plenty," accepted to the research and general archives of the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM) in Berlin.

Sang Nam, an assistant professor in the School of Communications a professor in the new Interactive Media program, presented his research through two poster sessions at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Oct. 22-25 in Bloomington, Ind.

Six accomplished alumni were celebrated Oct. 24 as part of Homecoming 2009 on the Elon campus. The honored grads included Dr. William Herbert ’68, Deborah Yow-Bowden ’74, Rev. Dr. Walstein Snyder ’45, Audrey Seagraves ’02, Stephanie Newbold ’01 and Walter "Cam" Tims ’00.

Want to get a head start on your career before leaving campus? Start networking now. And when you do apply for jobs, don't send a generic cover letter. Research the company. Alumni from the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business and the School of Communications shared advice Friday in "wisdom sessions" for current students as part of Homecoming 2009.

Jessica Gisclair, the associate department chair in the School of Communications, presented her paper "Beauty exposed: A survey of traditional values" at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 17.

Phoenix14News, Elon University's weekly student newscast, was named the best student newscast in North and South Carolina Saturday at the Radio-Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas annual awards luncheon. It's the first time Phoenix14News has been recognized with the award, and it comes on the heels of the show's recognition as best newscast in the nation by the Broadcast Education Association in April.

Bestselling author Khaled Hosseini visited Elon University on Tuesday as the keynote speaker for Fall Convocation, and during his time on stage, the Afghan native implored students to travel the world in the coming years to better understand how events around the globe impact their lives at home.

Two School of Communications faculty members were featured panelists at the American Journalism Historians Association convention Oct. 8-11 in Birmingham. Ala.

The two small holes in her hips and a little pain are the only reminders Maura McGrath '09 has of her recent surgery at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. She says the slight discomfort is a small price to pay for the good she was doing.

Students in the Elon in Los Angeles program appeared on a September episode of "The Price is Right," and senior corporate communications major Jamie O'Brien was implored to "come on down."

Sang Nam, an assistant professor of Communications, delivered a talk on the Chusuk Holiday, the Korean version of Thanksgiving, at the 2009 Asian Autumn Moon Festival Oct. 10.

Elon Student Television's newest and only scripted television show, "Newsbreakers," won three Bronze Telly Awards this summer after being in production for just one year.

A documentary directed and produced by a 2009 alumna while she studied at Elon University has been selected for screening at the St. John's International Women's Film Festival in Canada later this month.

The City of Greensboro and the Sunshine Center of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition have scheduled two workshops dealing with public records and open meetings for Oct. 22 at the Greensboro Historical Museum auditorium. The workshops are free and open to the public, and they will feature multimedia presentations on best practices in making and responding to requests for public records.

Frances Ward-Johnson, associate professor in the School of Communications, presented research on blogging in public relations classes at the 2009 International Association of Online Communicators Annual Conference held Oct.1-2 in Washington, D.C.

A nine-member student-staff-faculty documentary journalism team from Elon's Imagining the Internet Center and School of Communications covered the Internet Governance Forum-USA at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2.

Elon School of Communications students Alex Trice and Randy Gyllenhaal will participate as panelists in events at the Internet Governance Forum-USA on Friday, Oct. 2, at the Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C.

First Amendment experts and advocates argued at length about whether corporations and individuals both share the same free speech protection and emphasized their optimism about the future of the First Amendment in an Internet-dominated age in a Sept. 29 panel discussion in Whitley Auditorium, one part of the larger daylong First Amendment Day celebration on campus.

Ray Johnson, assistant professor in the School of Communications, and Betty Hatch, a former instructor in Communications, will premiere a new documentary film they produced Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Paramount Theater in Burlington.

Alamance News publisher Tom Boney Jr. was honored for his outspoken support of the First Amendment and his dedication to open government at a luncheon Sept. 29 during Elon University’s First Amendment Day celebration.

Michael Frontani, associate professor of communications, gave an interview this week to KCBS radio in San Francisco where he discussed The Beatles' songwriting and involvement with the counterculture and the recent death of Lucy Vodden, the inspiration for The Beatles' 1967 recording "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," which originally appeared on the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

Barbara Miller, assistant professor in the School of Communications, co-authored a chapter in "Communicating Science: New Agendas in Science Communication," with Janas Sinclair, asistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Communications instructor Nicole Triche's short film "Thaumatrope" will be a part of the 20th Annual St. John’s International Women's Film Festival in Canada.

Five Elon students presented research papers Sept. 25-26 at the Carolinas Communications Conference held in Wilmington, N.C. Their research was shared in a panel chaired by School of Communications associate professor Frances Ward-Johnson.

The Imagining the Internet Center and students in Elon University's Interactive Media master's program helped celebrate North Carolina's OneWebDay Sept. 22 during College Coffee at the Academic Village Plaza.

North Carolina's OneWebDay (http://onewebday.org/) celebration is being hosted by Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center and the students of Elon University's Interactive Media Master's Program. It will take place at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 22 at the Academic Village Plaza at the intersection of Haggard Avenue and O'Kelly Avenue on the Elon campus.

Elon University and the School of Communications welcomed its inaugural class for the M.A. in Interactive Media program this year. Thirty-seven students are currently enrolled.

Interactive Media master's students wrote essays and produced videos in tribute to OneWebDay, which takes place Sept. 22.

Janna Anderson, an associate professor in the School of Communications and director of the Imagining the Internet Center, was named to the steering committee of the Internet Governance Forum-USA (http://igfusa.wordpress.com/).

Radio host Scott Fitzgerald interviewed School of Communications Adjunct Associate Professor Dale Harrison for WPTF's morning-drive program "North Carolina's Morning News" on Friday, Sept. 11.

A program directed by Elon School of Communications 2002 graduate Audrey Seagraves has received a prestigious international technology award. The online "Fair Wage Guide," managed by Seagraves, is a tool to assist millions of workers in the developing world who live below the poverty level.

State and regional media turned to an Elon University faculty member this week for commentary on the release of "The Beatles: Rock Band" and the group's remastered studio albums, which hit stores Wednesday and exposes a new generation to the Fab Four's music. Associate professor Michael Frontani shared with reporters his expertise from research into his 2007 book The Beatles: Image and the Media.

Randy Gyllenhaal, a senior broadcast major, spoke live Sept. 8 with FOX News co-anchor Trace Gallagher about the reaction college students are having to the reemergence of the H1N1 virus, more commonly known as the "swine flu," as the fall semester begins.

The School of Communications welcomed its 2009 Journalism and Communications Fellows to Elon last week. Thirty-two top students accepted invitations to join the Fellows program.

Senior cinema major Max Cantor had his documentary "Cinema 93" selected for screening at the 2009 New Hampshire Film Festival Oct. 15-18 in Portsmouth, N.H.

The Pendulum, Elon University's weekly student newspaper, was named a 2009 finalist in the Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker competition Sept. 4. Pacemaker is the highest honor ACP gives to its members.

The North Carolina Association of Broadcasters gave School of Communications Associate Dean Connie Book an award for outstanding leadership and dedication to the NCAB.