School of Communications

(THIS ITINERARY INCLUDES SOME MINOR UPDATES IN TIMES AND LOCATIONS.) Orientation 2009 Welcome! The Elon community extends warm greetings to the inaugural class in the Master of Interactive Media program. As the charter class, you are program ambassadors and will be instrumental in the development and evolution of the curriculum.

Brooke Barnett, Jessica Gisclair and George Padgett, all associate professors in the School of Communications, received a $5,000 grant from the McCormick Foundation to build First Amendment awareness on campus this fall.

On July 8, Lee Bush, assistant professor of Communications, conducted a media training workshop in Durham, N.C., for several nonprofit environmental groups.

Two School of Communications students were among the 30 who gave their Summer Undergraduate Research Experience final presentations July 29 in McKinnon Hall.

Jessica Gisclair, associate professor in the School of Communications, received a scholarship from the Center for Creative Leadership to participate in a Foundations for Leadership training July 15-17 in Greensboro, N.C.

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.