Much has been said and written about the "conflict" between professional research and teaching. The claim is often made that the two fields of endeavor should complement each other since research can enliven and update a professor's teaching. Little attention has been directed to the converse, the possibility that a professor's teaching can definitely enhance his/her research and consequent publication output. One veteran speech communication professor finds that his classroom experience has led directly to publication output. Student input or questions has led to research (on stage fright, humor, the content of a basic speech course, for example) motivated by real, immediate curiosity; later this research was used as the basis for journal articles or conference papers. A constant complaint among faculty is that heavy teaching loads take up time that could be used for research, but teaching can also enrich and diversify an instructor's list of publications. (TB)