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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.

Ross Wade, assistant director of career services for the School of Communications, has been elected to the North Carolina Career Development Association Executive Board for the 2010-2011 term.

School of Communications professors Barbara Miller and Brooke Barnett published their research on newspaper infographics in the presentation of health risks in Newspaper Research Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1, 52-68 (2010).

Communications associate professor Jessica Gisclair and AmeriCorps Vista staff member Rebekkah Goodman-Williams spent spring break with 15 Elon students on a weeklong service trip to the gulf coast of Mississippi, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005.

Public records are just that--public. Every citizen is entitled to view records of an arrest warrant and go to certain government meetings--and they should be allowed to do so. Protecting and celebrating these rights is what the Sunshine Center and the North Carolina Open Government Coalition does annually during its Sunshine Day events.

Communications assistant professors and Elon Center for Advancement in Teaching and Learning Scholars Sang Nam and Phillip Motley presented at the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons 2010 at Georgia Southern University March 9-12.

A short story by Ken Calhoun, assistant professor in the School of Communications, was selected by writer Amy Hempel to appear in "New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2010."