Colin Donohue

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf, widely known as a "father of the Internet" and Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, will be among the more than 60 speakers leading more than 20 different events at the three-day FutureWeb conference in Raleigh, N.C., April 28-30. The event is being organized by the Imagining the Internet Center of Elon's School of Communications, and will involve more than 40 Elon students, faculty and staff.

Metacarpus, a film by School of Communications instructor Nicole Triche, will be a part of the Celebration of North Carolina Arts at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, N.C., April 24.

Communications assistant professors Phillip Motley and Sang Nam were selected as National CASTL (Carnegie Academy of Teaching and Learning) Teaching Scholars and will present their research at the 2010 National CASTL Institute at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., this summer.

Several students in the School of Communications presented their research at the 2010 National Conferences on Undergraduate Research April 15-17 at the University of Montana.

From the Wilmington Star-News (4/18/10): State education officials are finally working to make it tougher for incompetent or immoral teachers to keep getting jobs in North Carolina. But even as they propose requiring more information in the teacher licensing process, they advocate keeping those facts secret from the public.

From the Morganton News-Herald (4/19/10): One lawsuit filed in 2009 against the Burke County Board of Education will be dismissed, but local attorney Stephen Schoeberle is going ahead with a second.

From the Raleigh Telegram (4/8/10): After a recent lawsuit in North Carolina where a public official successfully defended against a lawsuit from an online newspaper that had requested a copy of an e-mail that was characterized as "personal," we asked Raleigh media attorney John Bussian some questions about the topic.