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Randy Piland has been active in the Boy Scouts since he was 11 years old. He's an Eagle Scout and has always enjoyed being a part of the Boy Scouts of America, so he continually looks for ways to give back to an organization that gave him so much. Piland used this summer to design completely a Flash-based Web site companion to the 12th edition of the "Boy Scout Handbook."

Tim McMahon, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, led a half-day session with 100 representatives of motorsports sponsors, agencies, tracks, race teams exploring business-to-business development opportunities Aug. 27 in Atlanta.

Five new faculty and staff members with strong and varied professional and educational backgrounds joined the ranks in the School of Communications in the Fall of 2009.

Harlen Makemson, an associate professor in the School of Communications, delivered a presentation of his research based on his book "Media, NASA, and America's Quest for the Moon" Aug. 27 in a session sponsored by the Faculty Research and Development committee, through which Makemson received some money to complete the work.

Work by ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ students and professors took center stage Tuesday morning in the opening hours of SURF 2009. More than 30 faculty members presented research in the second annual "Celebration of Faculty Scholarship," which segued into a special College Coffee in the Koury Business Center for dozens of students to share their research findings in a poster session that packed the building's concourse.

Tom Nelson, an associate professor in the School of Communications, hosted this month a private prevue of his recent DVD documentary "Prisoners of Plenty" in Concordia, Kansas.