Four members of IUP’s Communications Media Department will present at the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Conference and Expo on February 22, 2010.

For the third consecutive year, the PASSHE Economic Development Grant for Internship Initiatives has been renewed. The 2009–2010 $30,000 grant is codirected by Dr. Richard Lamberski, professor of Communications Media, and Mr. Mark Anthony, director of the Career Development Center.

Brad Wiggins, a doctoral candidate in the Communications Media Department, is preparing for his trip to Switzerland to present at the Swiss Association of Communications and Media Research Conference on March 26, 2010.

The Center for Videoconferencing is celebrating its ten-year anniversary of serving the university at large. Contact the center to inquire about scheduling its facilities or a demonstration of its facilities.

Two Communications Media students were recognized for films they produced in the Digital Media Institute. Brandon Roudebush and Erika Knox were honored as the first-ever IUP finalists in the College Broadcasters National Awards for television production.

Sara Lamberson is currently the special projects assistant for Dr. Richard Lamberski, professor in the Communications Media Department. In the year and a half she has worked with him, Sara has assisted with many projects and led many herself. Dr. Lamberski holds her in the highest regards among all of his student workers.

Traumatic Brain Injury is the topic of an in-depth interview on IUP-TV with Dr. Karl Hursey, a rehabilitation psychologist with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation and the Defense and Veterans’ Brain Injury Center in Johnstown. This thirty-minute special educates veterans and those who care about them to the disparate effects that TBI can have over time and the treatment options available that can lead to recovery.