School of Communications

The first line of the e-mail read: I am very pleased to offer you one of our seats in the Saatchi and Saatchi Summer internship program working in account management. There was no ambiguity there. She had received the internship opportunity.

Shelley Russell is a thinker, a planner. She can envision the final product. She has an idea about what would look good on a page or a computer screen. And to a certain extent, she can complete some of the tasks--the writing and basic video editing, for example--needed to execute her visualization.

Jessica Gisclair, associate professor in the School of Communications, was a lead discussant at the 21st Oxford Round Table at St. Anne's College, Oxford, England, July 19-24.

Barbara Miller, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, had an article published in the Journal of Applied Communication Research (Summer 2009).

Ashley Barnas works in a cave. Well, not a literal cave, with the high, damp walls, the darkness, the things that go bump in the night. But a figurative one that's probably better defined as a little room in the middle of a larger newsroom. It's affectionately referred to as a cave, and the employees who work inside it have hung bats from the ceiling and drawn pictures of sunshine on the windowless walls.

Elon University Provost Steven House visited with students and alumni in Los Angeles July 17-23, where he attended an alumni function and spent time at L.A. landmarks with students.

Casting isn't the glamorous position. It's just a name in a long list of credits. Certainly, the weight of a motion picture's success rests more on the visible shoulders of the movie stars and director. But put the wrong actors in the wrong parts, and a movie can fall apart. And it's that tension, that stress that invigorates Joanna Bateman.

Students in the Elon in Los Angeles program will have the opportunity to attend the Marina Del Rey Summer Classical Concert at 7 p.m. (PST) June 23 at Burton W. Chace Park.

Legendary broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite died July 17 at the age of 92. Cronkite was famous for his reporting of the Kennedy assassination, Watergate and the U.S. space program. Cronkite came to Elon April 8, 2003, and had a conversation with David Gergen, a former adviser to four U.S. presidents and the chair of the Elon School of Law advisory board.

Research by associate professor Harlen Makemson has been featured by Triad television stations and newspapers in recent days in the lead-up to the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing.