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Elon is one of a dozen universities where students this fall will be eligible to enter original screenplays in the nationwide Sprite Refreshing Films™ contest or apply to direct one of the six short films chosen for production. Students are invited to the formal kick-off that takes place at 4:15 p.m. Monday in Studio B of the School of Communications.

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication formally honored Elon University's School of Communications this week with the 2010 Equity and Diversity Award in recognition of the school's commitment to advancing gender and racial diversity in its programs.

Sang Nam, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, has been named the general secretary of the National Association for Korean Schools.

This year's District II Regional Broadcast Education Association conference is being held at Elon University the next two days, Sept. 24-25.

Two members of the School of Communications Advisory Board took part in a panel discussion titled "The News We Watch: Is It Getting More Personal and Opinionated and, If So, Is That a Bad thing?" as part of the regional Broadcast Education Association Conference taking place at Elon Sept. 24-25.

Sang Nam, an assistant professor of Communications, delivered a lecture on the Chuseok Holiday, the Korean version of Thanksgiving, at the 2010 Asian Autumn Moon Festival Sept. 18.

Randy Piland, photojournalism professor in the School of Communications, spent a weekend last Fall photographing Boy Scouts from Troop 87, Maryville, Tenn., as they backpacked from Newfound Gap to Kephart Prong in the Smoky Mountains.

The School of Communications has provided an Apple iPad to each faculty and staff member as a form of professional development in a fast-changing communications world.

Seven new faculty members with strong professional and educational backgrounds joined the ranks of teacher-scholars in the School of Communications in Fall 2010.

Eleven faculty members and a 2010 graduate of the School of Communications participated in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) national conference in Denver from Aug. 3-7.