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ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's annual Media Board banquet on May 7 honored student communicators, as each of the six ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ student media groups recognized exemplary members from the past year.

More than 100 new members were inducted into the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Communications chapter of Lambda Pi Eta at a May 7 ceremony in McKinnon Hall.

Senior broadcast communications major Randy Gyllenhaal became the first ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ student to make it to the finals of the Hearst Journalism Awards Competition this year.

An ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ faculty member and two School of Communications students were featured March 11 in a Fox 8 (WGHP/High Point, N.C.) feature segment that examined the level of privacy, or lack thereof, that teenagers and young adults expect in the era of Facebook and YouTube.

Faculty members and students in the School of Communications participated in the annual Broadcast Education Association conference April 22-25 in Las Vegas.

The faculty and administrators of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's School of Communications hosted the institution's annual awards ceremony in McEwen Studio B April 30.

Senior broadcast journalism major Mitch Pittman was named to the UWire 100, a selective list of the best and brightest student journalists in the nation.

An HIV-positive Namibian woman "just waiting for death to come" found strength to speak for all AIDS victims in the African nation, and she uses her voice today to battle the disease's stigma. A new film by communications major Erin Barnett '09, which tells the activist's story, is the latest in a series of E-net profiles to spotlight undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2009.