Peter Pasco ’09 was one of 40 students nationwide chosen for American Advertising Federation's Most Promising Minority Students Program. Hannah Moore ’09 was named to the program’s honor roll.

AAF's Most Promising Minority Students Program is the premier advertising industry award program to recognize and recruit outstanding minority college graduates. The program not only honors the students, but also enhances their knowledge and understanding of the advertising industry by offering networking, interviewing, and industry immersion opportunities with industry professionals during a three-day event in New York City in February.

The status of the Ithacan as one of the best college newspapers in the country was reaffirmed last weekend when the paper was awarded the 2008 Pacemaker and Online Pacemaker awards -- widely regarded as the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism -- by the Associated College Press. The 2008 award is for work published during the 2007–8 academic year, during which Erica R. Hendry served as editor in chief.

This past weekend at the Collegiate Broadcasters Inc. National Student Production competition, ICTV was recognized as the overall winner in three categories.

Assistant professor Cory Young, of the Department of Strategic Communication, has authored a book chapter entitled, "Out and Studying Abroad: Unique Challenges to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Students," which was published in Educational Access and Social Justice: A Global Perspective, a book edited by Gowri Parameswaran and Themina Kader.