School of Communications

The School of Communications organized events that encouraged students, faculty and staff to interact with the news.

4:30 p.m. Thursday in Global Commons Building Room 301

Elon University’s Fall Convocation and Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture on Oct. 2, 2014, featured Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, husband-and-wife journalists who shared ways for people to make a difference in battling global challenges like poverty, sex trafficking and lack of educational opportunities.

President Leo M. Lambert and four Elon professors led dinner conversations on Oct. 6 with students from the university's Historic Neighborhood who wanted to share the lessons they learned from Fall Convocation.

World tech experts predict telepresence, virtual reality and highly personal information apps are ahead in the next decade of high-speed Internet development.

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the first married couple to win journalism’s highest honor, took questions from Elon University students Thursday in a Whitley Auditorium conversation on the education of girls, their roles as storytellers and the “white savior complex.”

Five sport and event management majors helped manage a concession tent during men's and women's golf championships this summer in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and proceeds from their effort will benefit a scholarship program for Elon students completing sport and event mangagement internships.

The award-winning 'Emptying the Skies' will also be screened at two upcoming film festivals.

Communications assistant professor discussed the Better Reykjavik project, which deals with participation and collaboration in city governance.