School of Communications

The Premier Sport & Event Society, the Department of Sport & Event Management's student major’s association, recently earned more than $4,100 at the SAS – PGA Champion’s Tour golf tournament.

The Pendulum, Elon University's weekly student newspaper, was honored with Best of Show awards from the Associated Collegiate Press on the last day of ACP's joint convention with College Media Advisers Oct. 31 in Louisville. Representatives from media publications who attend the conference may enter the Best in Show competition. All entries are submitted and judged on site.

Three students in Elon University's School of Communications traveled to Washington, D.C., Oct. 30 to collect photos, video and interviews from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity.

Communications assistant professors Phillip Motley and Sang Nam made three presentations at the 2010 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Liverpool, England.

Elon University journalism major Jack Dodson '12 sat on a panel titled "International Opportunities for College Journalists: Internships, Freelancing, Study Abroad and Jobs" at the joint Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers conference Oct. 28 in Louisville.

Frances Ward-Johnson, associate professor and associate department chair in the School of Communications, was recently named an executive editor with the Journal of International Women’s Studies.

Frances Ward-Johnson, associate professor and associate department chair in the School of Communications, was selected to present her research at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference held Sept. 30-Oct. 3 in Raleigh, N.C.

Sam Coury discovered a love for P.T. Barnum, the famous 19th century American showman, when she researched his life for a high school paper. Until last fall, the current Elon University sophomore figured an internship with The Barnum Museum in Connecticut was nothing more than “fantasy.” Then she visited Career Services.