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Assistant professor Rich Landesberg will help lead a study abroad trip to Europe to study the past, present and future of the European Union during January. He will be maintaining a blog while traveling, which can be accessed at http://eloneu09.wordpress.com/.

Lee Bush, an assistant professor of communications, had a column published in the Dec. 21, 2008, edition of the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C. “Americans waiting for straight talk from CEOs” challenges financial executives to take responsibility for the economic crisis facing the United States.

News organizations around the world have reported in recent days on research by associate professor Janna Q. Anderson for the Imagining the Internet Center in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's School of Communications, conducted in partnership with the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Allison Deiboldt is not the type of person who takes other people or circumstances for granted. Her family has always instilled in her the importance of giving back to the community.

The LSM Society raised $10,000 this fall by managing concessions for a PGA event in Cary, N.C., and by hosting a wheelchair basketball tournament.

A new survey of world Internet leaders outlines predictions for the wired world of 2020, including sophisticated mobile online access, voice-recognition, and artificial and virtual reality. The study was conducted by the Imagining the Internet Center in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's School of Communications and the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Sophomore communications major Pam Richter had a first-person editorial published in the Greensboro News & Record Dec. 9.

Teens at Cummings High School in Burlington, N.C., published a newspaper this week for the first time in four years after meeting every Monday throughout the fall for guidance from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ faculty, staff and students.

Hal Walker, an associate professor of leisure and sport management, presented research in October at the International Academy of Business and Economics (IABE) conference in Las Vegas. The title of his presentation: “The Relationship between Psychological Commitment, Participation Frequency and Purchase Intention in Recreational Golfers.”