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During World War Two, many captured German soldiers were transferred overseas to prison camps in the United States. After discovering an unlikely connection to one of these POWs, Tom Nelson, an associate professor of communications, began work on "Prisoners of Plenty," a documentary that tells the Germans' stories due out this year.

Several videos produced by ������Ƶ students and staff are now available to about 1.2 million subscribers to Time Warner Cable systems in North and South Carolina.

Charles Becton, president of the North Carolina Bar Association and a former judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, comes to the ������Ƶ University School of Law on Jan. 14 for a program sponsored by the Black Law Students Association in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Why would white, middle class men and women at the turn of the 20th century emulate Native American customs as a pastime? Clyde Ellis, a professor of history at ������Ƶ, examines the motivations – and consequences – of self-described Indian hobbyist activities in recent scholarship presentations that stem from a book due out next year.

Is love nothing more than yearning? What happens when a person is in a relationship with someone he no longer desires? Tripp York, an instructor of religious studies at ������Ƶ, asks such questions in Anesthesia: A Brief Reflection on Contemporary Aesthetics, his first work of fiction and second book published since 2007.

Attention men. Drop the dumbbells and hit the books. Your brain may be your most attractive body part. Mark Prokosch, an ������Ƶ adjunct assistant professor, shows in new research due to be published this winter in Evolution and Human Behavior that intelligence is important when it comes to attracting a woman.

Steven D. House, dean of ������Ƶ College, the College of Arts and Sciences, and associate vice president for academic affairs, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at ������Ƶ. His appointment by President Leo M. Lambert comes after a four-month national search.

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 ������Ƶ's School of Communications and the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Four ������Ƶ students have won recognition from Stanford University for their entry in a global contest that challenged teams to create something of value using nothing more than water bottles. Their video entry stemmed from the ������Ƶ Innovation Challenge, hosted locally by the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at ������Ƶ.

Students who worked the front lines during Wilmington, North Carolina’s early switch to digital television are asking NBC president Jeff Zucker to interrupt the Super Bowl with a 30-second message from the Federal Communications Commission in the lead up to the nationwide transition on February 17, 2009.