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Students in Elon's Interactive Media master's program will soon be flashing their passports and traveling to foreign countries as part of their Winter Term fly-in experience. The entire inaugural class has been broken up into four groups, each of which will be led by a faculty member in the School of Communications.

In a special section on the future of education, The New York Times cited Elon's Master's in Interactive Media program as an example of a highly specialized program leading the way in master's level education.

The video interviews recorded by a crew of student researchers at the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in November are now posted online on Elon University's Imagining the Internet site.

A team of Elon journalists led by Janna Anderson, associate professor and director of Elon's Imagining the Internet Center, is providing daily online news coverage of the fourth Internet Governance Forum facilitated by the United Nations in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

A record 16 faculty members in the School of Communications will receive university Faculty Research and Development funds for 2010-11.

Learn more about Elon's newest graduate program at a special Interactive Media Open House on Thursday, Nov. 12 The full-time, one-year program is open to students with an undergraduate degree in communications, as well as those students with degrees in other areas.

A student-produced documentary about the U.S.S. Sequoia, which served as the presidential yacht from Herbert Hoover's administration until President Jimmy Carter auctioned it off in 1977, will be screened at the Asheville Film Festival Nov. 13.

Sang Nam, an assistant professor of Communications, delivered a talk on the Chusuk Holiday, the Korean version of Thanksgiving, at the 2009 Asian Autumn Moon Festival Oct. 10.

The Imagining the Internet Center and students in Elon University's Interactive Media master's program helped celebrate North Carolina's OneWebDay Sept. 22 during College Coffee at the Academic Village Plaza.

North Carolina's OneWebDay (http://onewebday.org/) celebration is being hosted by Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center and the students of Elon University's Interactive Media Master's Program. It will take place at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 22 at the Academic Village Plaza at the intersection of Haggard Avenue and O'Kelly Avenue on the Elon campus.