School of Communications

Elon University junior Josh Chagani has been awarded the LIN Television Corporation Minority Scholarship and Training Program for 2009, a national award that will pay up to $20,000 annually in expenses for tuition, fees, books, room and board during his junior and senior years.

Win Stuff, Elon University's pop-culture game show, has won two Communicator Awards from a pool of more than 7,000 entries. The most recent Awards of Distinction from the organization are the show's third and fourth in the past two seasons.

Ken Calhoun, assistant professor in the School of Communications, read his short story "Headlock" at the New York Public Library on May 12.

Here's a look at where some of the 2009 School of Communications graduates will be headed following Commencement May 23.

Junior cinema major Max Cantor won first place in the 2009 Isabella Cannon Centre for International Studies Study Abroad Essay Contest.

Ross Wade, the assistant director of career services for the School of Communications, was interviewed by the National Association of Colleges and Employers regarding his use of Wordle to assist students with their resumes.

Four Elon University employees were recognized for superior scholarship, teaching, mentoring and service at the annual faculty-staff awards luncheon on May 13, 2009. Laura Roselle, Connie Book, Glenda Crawford and Keith Dimont were each selected for one of the highest accolades bestowed each year on faculty and staff.

Richard Barnett worked in the White House for the final four years of the Nixon administration, ultimately serving as the presidential communications officer responsible for Camp David, Key Biscayne and San Clemente, where the first family vacationed and lived. Thirty-five years later, Elon senior Amy Reitnouer shares her grandfather’s stories in a documentary screened May 8 in the School of Communications.