School of Communications

The Sport and Event Management 227 class donated a total of $2,000 from two spring semester class events. Class members split into groups to organize the "Bite'N Bid" pasta dinner/silent auction in support of Allied Churches of Alamance County, and the "Frosty Frolic" race in support of the Children's Home Society of North Carolina.

Janna Anderson, associate professor in the School of Communications and director of the Imagining the Internet Center, was the closing keynote speaker May 11 at Webcom, located at ICAO in Montreal, Canada.

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.