The Skeleton Chase, an alternate reality game Lee Sheldon designed for a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, will run for eight weeks this semester on campus, climaxing on November 12th. Telecom grad students Elizabeth Crosbie and Nick Cassidy are part of the team. Lee is Creative Consultant on a new reality TV show called Danger Game in development for the Sci-Fi Channel. He also has been invited to speak about serious game grants to IUPUI Informatics faculty and students on September 12th.
Meet our new Professors! - The Telecommunications Department welcomes Nicole Martins as our newest faculty member. We are also pleased to announce that Matt Pierce has now become a permanent member of our faculty. Read more about Nicole Martins & Matt Pierce.
New Honors Students - The department would like to welcome the following students to the Telecom Honors Program: Alba Berdala, Nathaniel Gold, Chris Headley, Eric Kelly, Yoon Young Lee, Caleb Levell, Page Louisell, Joe Martinez, Lauren Mayber, Aaron Mervis, Adam Peterson, Erica Weiss, John C. Weston, & Taylor Zitman. Congratulations!
Telecom News
Rob Potter has been teaching an Intensive Freshman Seminar - Check out his recent blog posts: First week of IFS is in the Books and This is your Brain on the Lilly Library.
New Student & Faculty Galleries on-line - Bjorn Ottesen, of our MIME program created new Flash-enabled gallery portals. Check out all of the new work in the Student Gallery.
Faculty News
Mark Deuze will be a panelist at the The 2nd Annual B-Movie Celebration in Franklin, Indiana, speaking on the ways the internet influences the work of (independent) film makers on September 27th.
Ron Osgood wrote a book and produced a companion DVD, "Visual Storytelling: Videography & Post Production in the Digital Age".
Jim Krause edited Wilderness Plots, an hour-long documentary which airing in September on WTIU. (more)
Events
Spring 2009 Production Applications - The deadline for applications was October 15. Students wishing to take a 400-level Advanced Production class can still fill out a Late Production Application.
