At the National Communication Association Annual Convention, held in Chicago, IL, November 12-14 2009, Associate Professor of Rhetoric Todd McDorman was a member of a special Communication and Law Division panel that addressed the future of the area, looking toward the 100th anniversary of the National Communication Association. His presentation was entitled, "'Five Years Out': Thinking about the Future of the Communication and Law Division." Professor McDorman also served as panel respondent to the Communication and Law panel entitled "Contested Constructions of Constitutional Law."??In March 2010, he is presenting the essay "Image (Dis)Repair in Pete Rose's My Prison Without Bars" for a panel for Distinguished Research in Sport Communication at the 4th Summit in Sport Communication in Cleveland, OH.