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Interactive Media master's students Maria Rojas and Cathy Freeman were quoted in a WRAL.com story covering the WWW2010 conference in Raleigh, N.C. The Imagining the Internet Center at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ sponsored FutureWeb, which ran jointly with WWW2010 at the Raleigh Convention Center.

Three ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ students were named national winners in the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards contest May 5.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's Imagining the Internet Center, in partnership with the Pew Internet and American Life Project have issued a new report dealing with the future of the semantic Web. Technology experts who participated in a recent survey believe online information will continue to be organized and made accessible in smarter and more useful ways in coming years. There is stark dispute about whether the improvements will match the visionary ideals of those who are working to build the semantic Web.

A DVD created by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ faculty members Brooke Barnett, Alexa Darby, Mary Knight-McKenna and Ken Calhoun has been accepted for distribution by First Light Video.

For the fourth consecutive year, a team from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ has been recognized for its performance in the prestigious Bateman Competition, which annually showcases the work of public relations students around the country. ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ was one of 16 teams to receive an honorable mention in the 2010 competition.

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf, widely known as a "father of the Internet" and Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, were among the more than 60 speakers leading more than 20 different events at the three-day FutureWeb conference in Raleigh, N.C., April 28-30. The event was organized by the Imagining the Internet Center of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's School of Communications, and involved more than 40 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ students, faculty and staff.

The Pendulum, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's award-winning weekly newspaper, will have several executive staff positions open starting in the fall semester.