School of Communications

Jessica Gisclair, the associate department chair in the School of Communications, presented her paper "Beauty exposed: A survey of traditional values" at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 17.

The City of Greensboro and the Sunshine Center of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition have scheduled two workshops dealing with public records and open meetings for Oct. 22 at the Greensboro Historical Museum auditorium. The workshops are free and open to the public, and they will feature multimedia presentations on best practices in making and responding to requests for public records.

Bestselling author Khaled Hosseini visited Elon University on Tuesday as the keynote speaker for Fall Convocation, and during his time on stage, the Afghan native implored students to travel the world in the coming years to better understand how events around the globe impact their lives at home.

Phoenix14News, Elon University's weekly student newscast, was named the best student newscast in North and South Carolina Saturday at the Radio-Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas annual awards luncheon. It's the first time Phoenix14News has been recognized with the award, and it comes on the heels of the show's recognition as best newscast in the nation by the Broadcast Education Association in April.

Two School of Communications faculty members were featured panelists at the American Journalism Historians Association convention Oct. 8-11 in Birmingham. Ala.

Frances Ward-Johnson, associate professor in the School of Communications, presented research on blogging in public relations classes at the 2009 International Association of Online Communicators Annual Conference held Oct.1-2 in Washington, D.C.