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Some days she’ll go hours without speaking English. If she’s taking the subway, she’s most likely speaking Spanish. When she gets to work, she’s definitely speaking Spanish.

Connie Book, associate dean of the School of Communications, spoke with News 14 Carolina on June 26 about public records in North Carolina and how citizens' rights to information kept by government agencies is a key ingredient in healthy democracies.

Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, was interviewed June 16 by statewide cable news channel News 14 Carolina about layoffs announced the same day at the News & Observer in Raleigh and the Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, N.C.

Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, attended the 2008 New Media Academic Summit in Chicago focusing on blogs, twitters, wikis and other social media being used in business, journalism and politics.

Associate professor Jessica Gisclair will be taking her ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ overseas for two weeks this month.

Associate professor Jessica Gisclair was appointed to a two-year term as Vice President of Ethics for the Public Relations Society of America Tar Heel chapter in Greensboro, N.C.

Tom Nelson, an associate professor in the School of Communications, presented a paper June 18 in Montreal, Canada, on the topic of diversity in a university classroom. 

Senior cinema major Emily Robinson will attend the Fusion Arts Exchange program in Los Angeles for five weeks. Robinson was selected from a wide field of applicants as one of five American ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ students to participate with 15 international students in writing and production workshops at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

Glenn Scott, assistant professor in the School of Communications, and Elon students Ashley Barnas and Craig Campbell are conducting a research project at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Ministerial meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy in Seoul, Korea, June 16-18.

¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ in the Elon in Los Angeles Internship Program have just launched their class blog, which they will update regularly throughout the summer. For their first assignment, students were required to create individual autobiographies, which were edited together and produced by senior Jess Linderman.