Colin Donohue

Fourteen School of Communications students were among the many student researchers who presented their work at Elon University's selective Student Undergraduate Research Forum April 24.

From USA Today (4/22/12): Note to the Kansas and Maryland winners of last month's $656 million lottery jackpot: Count your anonymous blessings.

From the Asheville Citizen-Times (4/21/12): District Attorney Ron Moore will consult with the state attorney general’s office about whether to release a closely-guarded audit of the Police Department evidence room.

Communications assistant professor Vanessa Bravo presented a peer-reviewed paper at the Center for Global Public Relations' annual conference April 20. CGPR is located at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

New York Times projects editor Jo Craven McGinty, a 1985 Elon journalism graduate who has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize teams, received the first-ever Distinguished Alumni Award in the School of Communications on April 19.

Tom Nelson, an associate professor in the School of Communications, presented his documentary "Prisoners of Plenty" to the Popular Culture Association.

Students from the elondocs production program in the School of Communications attended the four-day Full Frame Documentary Film Festival April 12-15 in Durham, N.C.

Barbara M. Miller, assistant professor in the School of Communications, had an article published in the March 2012 edition of Risk Analysis (Vol. 32, Issue 3) titled “Risk perceptions in a resource community and communication implications: Emotion, stigma, and identity."

Live Oak Communications, Elon's student-run, full-service communications agency, is currently seeking qualified applicants for the fall of 2012. Live Oak develops and executes communications programs for businesses and not-for-profit organizations in North Carolina.

Communications assistant professor Lucinda Austin co-authored an article about how and where people find information during crises in the Journal of Applied Communication Research.