Presenters from Singapore, Macao, Nigeria, Egypt and Poland will join a Microsoft executive at the third annual Global Research Conference set for Friday, April 26, in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center.
The UNC Charlotte Center for Global Public Relations is sponsoring the conference, which will feature Tom Murphy, Microsoft’s director of corporate communications – corporate citizenship and community affairs programs. He will present “The Millennium Generation Communication Challenge,” about Microsoft’s YouthSpark project, which is attempting to empower youth to change their world by creating opportunities for millions of young people around the globe to imagine and to realize their full potential.
Conference registration materials are online. Attendees can register onsite beginning at 8:30 a.m. April 26 for the program that will begin at 9 a.m. Registration is $100, $30 for college/university students.
On Thursday, April 25, the center will hold its “Teaching International Public Relations Colloquium” at 1 p.m. in Cone University Center, Room 111. This free event will examine how to strategically organize study-abroad experiences. David Remund of Drake University, who has developed a travel seminar in Chile “Public Relations in a Global Society;” will be featured along with UNC Charlotte faculty members Diana Rowan, who provides experiential learning for social work students at villages in the African country of Malawi; and public relations professors Alan Freitag and Ashli Stokes, who teach UNC Charlotte’s London International Public Relations Seminar.