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Faculty, students and alumni from the School of Communications were honored by the Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts in several awards categories at the annual conference from April 15-17 in Las Vegas.

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf, widely known as a "father of the Internet" and Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, will be among the more than 60 speakers leading more than 20 different events at the three-day FutureWeb conference in Raleigh, N.C., April 28-30. The event is being organized by the Imagining the Internet Center of Elon's School of Communications, and will involve more than 40 Elon students, faculty and staff.

Communications assistant professors Phillip Motley and Sang Nam were selected as National CASTL (Carnegie Academy of Teaching and Learning) Teaching Scholars and will present their research at the 2010 National CASTL Institute at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., this summer.

"Family 2.0," a short documentary by School of Communications assistant professor Ken Calhoun, will be screened at this year's 360 | 365 George Eastman House Film Festival.

Sang Nam, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, presented at Elon University's Diversity Leadership Conference April 9-10 in a session titled "Understanding Diversity: What does it mean to be Asian-American?"

Three faculty members in the School of Communications were recognized for their outstanding work this academic year during the spring Advisory Board luncheon April 9.

Sang Nam, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, spoke at the 18th National Association for Korean Schools regional conference (southeast chapter) in Atlanta March 27 about using multimedia content in school.

Jessica Gisclair, the associate department chair in the School of Communications, presented her paper "Prescribed ethics: Media coverage of an Olympic sprinter" at the 2010 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations on April 2 in St. Louis, Mo.