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They come to the center from the streets, broken homes and jails where they served time with adults. Dozens of Filipino boys, victims of sexual abuse, seek refuge each year at the Stairway Foundation south of Manila – a place where sophomore Meagan Harrison last summer spent two months volunteering through ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Ward Family Learning in Action Award.

The 2010 U.S. Census "Portrait of America" Road Tour stopped at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ on Tuesday as part of the largest civic outreach and awareness campaign in the bureau's history, with a specific focus on the hard-to-count demographics such as college students and economically disadvantaged Americans.

Paul Parsons, professor and dean of the School of Communications, is the author of an article on diversity plans and implementation in the Spring 2010 issue of Insights, a publication of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Several students in the School of Communications had their research accepted to the 2010 National Conferences on Undergraduate Research April 15-17 at the University of Montana.

When four black students from North Carolina A&T University decided to sit at a segregated lunch counter in a Greensboro, N.C., Woolworth's store 50 years ago, they didn't plan on using media to affect national change. They were simply making a principled stand in their small corner of the nation.

Barbara Miller, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, received a research grant from the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Penn State to study ethics in environmental communications.

Live Oak Communications, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's student-run, full-service communications agency, received two awards Jan. 28 from the Tar Heel Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America at the annual Spinks Awards banquet in Greensboro, N.C. The Spinks competition is a professional awards program for agencies in the Triad region of North Carolina.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's 2010 Bateman Team campaign has partnered with the U.S. Census Bureau to bring the 2010 Census Portrait of America Road Tour Bus to campus.