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The Pendulum Online, the Web companion to The Pendulum weekly student newspaper, was named a 2010 finalist in the Associated Collegiate Press Online Pacemaker competition March 31. The Pacemaker is the highest honor ACP gives its members.

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).

The Pendulum, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's weekly student newspaper, and Phoenix14News, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's weekly student newscast were honored March 27 with Mark of Excellence Awards at the Society of Professional Journalists Region 2 competition in College Park, Md.

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

Janna Quitney Anderson, associate professor of communications and director of the School of Communication's Imagining the Internet Center, has been named to the Futurists Advisory Board for the Lifeboat Foundation.

Professor Tom Arcaro and associate professor Anthony Hatcher co-authored a column on atheism for the March 28, 2010, Sunday "Ideas" section of the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

Rebecca Smith, a sophomore journalism major and features editor of The Pendulum student newspaper, was one of nine students nationwide to be selected for a Scripps Howard Foundation 10-day journalism study trip to Japan in its annual Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition.