December 2009, Issue 10

An Integrated Media Team from Western Kentucky University will travel to India this month to help produce multimedia coverage of the annual global summit meetings of the world's press.



The WKU iTeam of 14 students and three faculty members from the School of Journalism & Broadcasting will augment the publications staff of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) reporting on the 2009 World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum. The meetings of more than 2,000 leading publishers and editors will be held in Hyderabad, India's Silicon Valley, Nov. 30 through Dec. 3.

As students in Western Kentucky University residence halls turn off and unplug, take shorter showers and make other energy conservation measures in this month's "Reduce Your Use!" competition, they will be able to see how their halls rank thanks to a real-time energy monitoring and display website. 



WKU's Building Dashboard® designed by Lucid Design Group provides information on energy use for each residence hall, converting kilowatt hours to relatable units such as pails of coal and hamburgers. 



Students not only will be able to track which building is winning, but also see whether efforts such as turning off all lights in a building make a big difference.