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ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ will host a one-day conference on Monday, March 9, that blends religion, film, politics, popular culture and the news business. Speakers from across the country will be on campus to discuss, as the title of the conference states, "Faith, Doubt, & The Media."

Ten teams participated in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's 50/50 Film Festival this weekend, a project that required students to write, shoot, edit and finalize their short films in only 50 hours.

From the level of interest that many African-American male students show toward schooling, to a lack of adequate role models in high schools, leading voices from North Carolina historically black colleges and universities gathered Feb. 26 at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ for a panel discussion on how to address issues affecting minority participation in higher education.

The School of Communications has revised its curriculum to better prepare students for the breadth, depth and convergence of communications in the future.

A book by communications faculty member Michael Frontani focusing on The Beatles was among the 2008 Outstanding Academic Title CHOICE Award-winners recognized by the American Library Association. Frontani joins history professors David Crowe and John Beck as winners of this year's CHOICE awards.

Frances Ward-Johnson, associate professor in the School of Communications, has been elected to a national executive committee of the Public Relations Society of America.

On the same day that the first African American took the oath for the nation’s highest office, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Leadership Fellows embarked to the Deep South for tour that connected history to the present. Twenty-three students traveled to Alabama and Georgia during Winter Term as part of a course on civil rights and nonviolence.

Two new faculty members with strong and varied professional and educational backgrounds joined the ranks in the School of Communications in the Winter and Spring of 2009.