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Karen Stout, an associate professor in the Communication Department at Western Washington University, presented a paper titled "The material costs of democracy: Business media construction of humanitarian concerns in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars" at the National Communication Association, held Nov. 17 to 20, 2011, in New Orleans. Stout also facilitated a roundtable discussion addressing methods for overcoming obstacles to effectively integrating service-learning into university courses and created a  for educators to share pedagogical tools and assessments.