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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.

How often do you notice the products that appear in your favorite television shows? And what do you think about those brands? Alex Walton ’10 sought to answer those questions, as well as gauge the opinions of broadcasting professionals, in his study of product placements in reality television shows. His work is the fourth in a series of E-net profiles to showcase ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2010.

Student leaders from a variety of academic disciplines were honored April 29 at the annual Omicron Delta Kappa awards ceremony in Whitley Auditorium, an annual ceremony that coincides with CELEBRATE! week. ODK recognizes students who have provided outstanding leadership in their junior or senior years, and who have maintained high academic performance.

The annual Spring Undergraduate Research Forum on April 27, 2010, promoted and celebrated work from more than 100 students who made presentations about their scholarship in disciplines as diverse as psychology, exercise science, chemistry, public relations and economics.

Nineteen School of Communications students were among the many student researchers who presented their work at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's selective Student Undergraduate Research Forum April 27.