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Candidates from graduate-level programs in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, Martha and Spencer Love School of Business and School of Communications celebrated their achievements during a joint Commencement ceremony May 17 in Alumni Gym.

During the May 16 event, the graduate students in Elon University’s Interactive Media master’s program presented their thesis projects to professionals, faculty, staff, family and friends.

The cinema and television arts alum earned a top-prize award in the Broadcast Education Association’s 2023 Festival of Media Arts, an international digital media and broadcast competition for faculty and students that received more than 1,650 entries this year.

Young leads the Chapel Hill-based global learning organization founded in 1987.

After graduating from the iMedia program, Simmons found a home at the Carolina Panthers.

The Broadcast Education Association, the premiere international academic media organization, released its second annual rankings celebrating consistent student success in the association’s Festival of Media Arts.

Ashleigh Afromsky ’22 joined Assistant Professor Jenny Jiang and Professor Qian Xu to examine the job descriptions of nearly 35,000 positions related to media analytics following the COVID-19 pandemic. Their findings were recently published in the March edition of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator.

To conclude the Winter Term study away course in the Caribbean, this year’s Interactive Media cohort hosted a Jan. 24 presentation to highlight its support of Dove Youth Development, a nonprofit organization that provides educational opportunities and afterschool programs.

The film, the fourth by Cornelius Muller Productions, will be shown on Feb. 24 at Carousel Cinemas at Alamance Crossing before a broader release this spring.

The School of Communications faculty members and Elon alumna Bettina Johnson '06, G ’11 provided news coverage for the prestigious international programming competition held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.