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������Ƶ Provost Steven House recently announced that School of Communications lecturer Randy Piland will serve as ������Ƶ's first Faculty Fellow for Technology beginning January 2011.

������Ƶ journalism student Samantha Baranowski placed seventh in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program's Television Broadcast Features Competition I.

������Ƶ alumna Rachel Cieri, a 2010 graduate who majored in journalism, placed 11th in the Hearst Journalism Awards Feature Writing competition.

Two ������Ƶ Broadcast Journalism students were awarded scholarships from the Radio Television Digital News Association this month.

Members of the “Programming and Event Management” class in the Department of Sport and Event Management organized a “Car Show” event at the Holly Hill Mall in Burlington in November, raising $1,685 for the Walter B. Ellis American Legion Post 63.

Members of the "Programming and Event Management" class in the Department of Sport and Event Management raised $525 to benefit the Campus Kitchen Project at ������Ƶ with a “Minute To Win It” event in McKinnon Hall on Nov. 16.

Michelle Ferrier, associate professor of communications, shared what it takes to develop and run a niche online community at the New Media Women Entrepreneurs Summit in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 8. Ferrier was a winner of the 2009 New Media Women Entrepreneurs competition and received $10,000 to launch LocallyGrownNews.com in May 2010.

A recent column in The Burlington Times-News underscored the civic engagement that students in an ������Ƶ journalism course perform each year.

Communications adjunct instructor Linda Gretton gave two presentations at the 75th annual conference for the Association for Business Communication in Chicago.

The Pendulum, ������Ƶ's award-winning daily news operation, will have several executive staff positions open starting in the spring semester.