School of Communications

Live Oak Communications was recognized with an honorable mention in the category of media relations from the North Carolina Public Relations Society of America’s InSpire Awards. Students received the award at a dinner in Raleigh on May 12.

Elon University's Bateman Team has been selected as one of three national finalists in this year's Public Relations Student Society of America's Bateman Case Study Competition.

Junior strategic communications major Theresa Helmer has been selected for the Multicultural Advertising Internship Program and will intern this summer at an award-winning agency in Boulder, Colo.

The Department of Sport and Event Management recently held its annual end-of-year banquet to recognize graduating seniors and outstanding student majors and minors.

Eighty-four new members were inducted into the Elon University School of Communications chapter of Lambda Pi Eta at a May 5 ceremony in McKinnon Hall.

Michelle Ferrier, associate professor in the School of Communications, was invited to a two-day workshop April 29-30 in Tucson, Ariz., to help develop strategies for interdisciplinary computing in higher education.

School of Communications department chair Jessica Gisclair and associate professor Thomas Nelson each presented papers April 23 at the Popular Culture Association national meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Last year’s iMedia graduates, the first from the program, have landed in an array of positions with organizations across the nation. Of the 32 graduates who responded to a survey from Career Services, 31 are employed full-time in a position directly related to their career aspirations.

CELEBRATE! 2011 continued Thursday afternoon at Elon University with four student presentations on academic service-learning projects that involved community outreach over the past year.