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Peter Kiwitt, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, was a consulting producer for FilmNation Entertainment in Los Angeles this summer.

Anthony Hatcher, an associate professor in the School of Communications, was elected the vice head of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's Religion and Media Interest Group, which puts him in line to be the head of RMIG in 2010-2011.

Paul Wagner finds niches. He's built a career on identifying a target audience and giving it the products it wants. He's a savvy businessman, who's worked as a greeting card writer, product developer and, out of necessity, a storyteller because in the business world, he says, you have to spin a tale if you're going to sell a product.

Tom Nelson, an associate professor of communications, was interviewed by Kansas Public Radio this week for his documentary "Prisoners of Plenty," a film that recounts the lives of German POWs imprisoned in Kansas during World War II.

Alex Kreitman, a 2006 ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumnus and current student in the Interactive Media master's program, wrote a column about returning to school in the July 27 edition of the Burlington Times-News.

Linda Misiura was trained formally as a writer, but the design/multimedia skills she's acquired to this point in her life are self-taught. So while she joins ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's new Interactive Media master's program with some communications experience already, she's also hoping to augment the technical side of her resume.

Eleven faculty members and a student in the School of Communications participated in the 2009 national convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Boston, Mass., on August 5-8.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ launched its one-year, full-time Interactive Media master's program Aug. 3 and welcomed 37 students into the inaugural class. Coursework began Aug. 4 with a three-week Digital Media Workshop before the start of the fall semester.

Dave Hollander has lived, to some degree, a vagabond lifestyle. His travels to points east, west, north and south in the United States were sometimes directionless, sometimes more structured. But no matter what, he always let life come to him because, as he says, he enjoys open-ended journeys and destinations with no clear outcome.