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The School of Communications will be holding Digital Media and Flash workshops from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Aug. 18-20.

Senior Brian Fink was given a national Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists May 19.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ parents Howard C. and Judy Pickett of Cary, N.C., have made a $110,000 endowment gift to enhance the university’s Isabella Cannon Leadership Fellows program. The couple made the gift because of the transformative experience that their daughter, Hilaire, a senior, has had as a Leadership Fellow at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.

A leisure and sport management class raised $1,050 for the United Way of Alamance County by hosting two events in recent weeks.

The 2008 Faculty Assisting New Students (F.A.N.S.) have been announced: Earl Danieley, Janna Anderson, Andi Metts, Chris Leupold, Paula Patch, Glenn Scott and Amanda Tapler.

A River's Reach, a new film involving students and staff from the School of Communications and Project Pericles, debuts next week at the Paramount Theater in downtown Burlington.

More than 90 new members were inducted into the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Communications chapter of Lambda Pi Eta at a May 6 ceremony in McKinnon Hall.