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Andy Bloxham and Ryan Ball, two photography students, will spend their summer on the coast of Maine. Bloxham, a master of fine arts candidate from West Monroe, and Ball, a junior from Baton Rouge, both received positions at the Maine Media Workshops. Located in Rockport, the MMW offers workshops instructed by some of the leading professionals in the fields of photography, film, animation, multimedia, design and book arts. Bloxham received a teaching assistantship for photo/digital/multimedia/book arts. Ball received a digital service bureau internship. They will begin in June and return in August.

Karl Puljak, director of the School of Architecture, has been chosen as one of three distinguished guests who will help lead the first architecture Fifth-Year Design Studio Forum at Kansas State University's College of Architecture, Planning and Design. He will join major studio advisers in reviewing fifth-year studio projects and will also help determine the recipient of K-State's Heintzelman Prize, given annually to the strongest fifth-year studio project. Puljak received his bachelor of architecture, with honors, and certificate in regional and community planning from K-State in 1990.

Elizabeth Christian, assistant professor of journalism, will present a paper “Leading People to Rock: Evangelism in the Rock and Roll of Bon Jovi” at the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 3-5, 2008. The paper will be part of a panel discussion on religious references in the lyrics and presentation of Bon Jovi. Senior journalism students Mary Nash, of El, Dorado, Ark., and Staci Parks, of Slapout, Ala., are contributing authors and panelists.

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