The Kent State University School of Communication Studies (COMM) hosted its annual Scholarships and Student Awards Reception on Friday, April 20, with nearly 80 students, parents, donors, faculty and staff members in attendance.   The ceremony celebrated the successful academic year of the school’s top undergraduate and graduate students, including 16 scholarship recipients, the officers of COMM student organizations and graduate student award honorees. Several faculty members were recognized for their efforts, as well.   Undergraduate Student Scholarships and Winners Michael ...

May 5: Tom Jennings is a Pulitzer nominated print journalist turned Peabody Award winning video documentarian. He graduated from Kent State University’s school of Journalism after winning the prestigious Hearst Award while editing The Daily Kent Stater in the 1980s.  His productions have included “Diana: In Her Own Words,” “Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes,” and “MLK: The Assassination Tapes” among many others for Smithsonian Channel, National Geographic Channel, Discovery and more. Visit the 1895 Films website Learn more about Tom Jennings Listen to the Elevations inter...

OISE 1259419 IRES Responsive Fibers (Professor Antal Jakli) Encapsulation of liquid crystals in electrospun polymer fibers was investigated in Suwang, South Korea and in the University of Luxembourg. The recoil process of viscoelastic free-standing liquid crystal filaments was studied experimentally and theoretically in Magdeburg and Goettingen, Germany.  Altogether, 20 US students have participated in cutting edge research in Suwang, South Korea, Luxembourg, Magdeburg and Goettingen, Germany and Budapest, Hungary. During Summer 2017 two Liquid Crystal Engineering Master students...

Virginia Dressler and Cindy Kristof, University Libraries, presented “The Right to be Forgotten and Digital Collections: Surveying Practice and Policy at ARL Member Institutions” at the Information Freedom, Ethics and Integrity, NISO Virtual Conference on April 18, 2018. Summary: In the spring of 2017, digital librarians at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions were surveyed on practices and policies surrounding takedown requests in openly accessible digital collections. The survey collected demographic information and also presented a series of hypothetical...