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All films begin on the page. Someone, typically the screenwriter, has to put pen to paper and give words and movements and motivations to characters. In the nine-week ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ in Los Angeles summer program, it’s no different.

Last year, the three faculty and 18 students who were part of the renewed ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ in New York City program considered the nine-week summer internship experience a resounding success. That's why, coming into this summer, the returning instructors decided to leave the program mostly untouched.

Regularly pulling together 39 students spread across three classes in Los Angeles can sometimes be a logistical impossibility. For nine weeks during the summer, the students in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ in LA program have to focus on their internships, class projects and other responsibilities. In essence, they build their own lives out west, if only a couple of months.

Tom Nelson, an associate professor in the School of Communications, is living for part of July 2011 in a campsite for people displaced by flooding in central North Dakota.

Communications assistant professor Sang Nam presented his paper "Cultural Pluralism in Bartok's Dance Suite" at the 2011 International Conference of the College Music Society July 4 in Seoul, South Korea.

"NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams, who also serves as national chair of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's School of Communications advisory board, was named the New York State Broadcasters Association's Broadcaster of the Year.