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For the first time ever, Elon University is sending students in two programs to Cuba as part of their business and graduate studies.

Jessica Gisclair, associate professor and department chair in the School of Communications, received the Public Relations Society of America Tar Heel Chapter Spinks Award at the Annual Professional Development Seminar Oct. 25.

The Communications Alumni Network heard a State of the School address from the dean and an update on the Elon Mentoring Network at its organizing meeting Oct. 20.

The School of Communications associate dean explored how postcolonial nations use public relations to benefit citizens & communicate across cultures.

School of Communications associate professor Lee Bush and Communications department chair Jessica Gisclair presented at the 2012 PRSA Southeast District Conference Sept. 19-21 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

A project created by nine students from Elon’s Interactive Media master’s program won third place for team journalism in the Association for Education in Journalism’s national Best of the Web competition.

The Interactive Media master's program will host an ice cream social at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6 on the second floor of Powell.

Dean Paul Parsons of the School of Communications led sessions on diversity, faculty, resources and assessment at an Aug. 23 Accrediting Council workshop in Chicago for 60 university programs seeking accreditation in the discipline.

Eleven faculty members in the School of Communications presented research and led sessions at the 100th national conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Aug. 9-12 in Chicago.