Mary M. Dalton presented “Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Traditional Documentary Curriculum” at the Broadcast Education Association Conference in Las Vegas on April 16, 2012.

Steven Giles was awarded the Ollen R. Nalley Faculty Fellowship.

Allan Louden presented “Language and North Carolina Political Advertising,” at the Institute for Public Trust, Samford Center, Duke University.

Ananda Mitra was awarded the Byant/Groves Family Faculty Fellowship.

Woody Hood, Candyce Leonard, Ananda Mitra, and Alessandra Beasley Von Burg were part of the Humanities Institute Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminars Symposium on Friday, here at Wake, discussing their ongoing work on ‘Film Genres as Cultural and Industrial Constructions’ (Woody, Candyce, and Ananda) and ‘Politics of Location, Transnational Feminisms, and Diaspora Studies’ (Alessandra).

Allan Louden and Ananda Mitra shared their views on social media policies regarding faculty and students with the Old Gold and Black.

Ananda Mitra was the keynote speaker at the international seminar ‘Indian Transnationalism Online: Ethnographic Explorations,’ at the University of Hyderabad, India.

Christopher Thomas presented the paper ‘It Gets Better (for some): The creation of authentic queerness in “coming out” rhetoric’ at the Queer Rhetoric: Fifth Annual LGBT Studies Symposium at Hofstra University.