Points of Pride Archive
Points of Pride Archive
Spring 2009 Archives
Books and Publications:
Paul Haridakis, Ph.D., recently published a book with Communication Studies Professors Emeriti Drs. Rebeccaand Alan Rubin: Rubin, R.B.; Rubin, A.M.; Haridakis, P.M.; and Piele, L.J. (2010) Communication Research: Strategies and Sources, 7th ed. Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. (March 6, 2009)
Causes:
The Communication Graduate Student Association (CGSA) is collecting new and used DVDs through April 17 to send to troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. Family Readiness Groups of the National Guard will receive the children's movies; all others will benefit AMVETS Task Force DVD. (April 10, 2009)
DVDs can be dropped off at five locations around campus: Rooms 127 and 135 in Taylor Hall, the Army ROTC office, Room 111 in Cartwright Hall and the circulation desk on the first floor of the University Library. (April 10, 2009)
Media Quotes:
Assistant IAKM Professor Karl Fast argues that our current conceptual tools for interaction design are more limited, and limiting, than we currently believe in a podcast at Boxes and Arrows on April 15. (April 17, 2009)
COMM Director Stan Wearden, Ph.D., Associate COMM Professor Nichole Egbert, Ph.D., and newly hired COMM Professor Rebecca Cline, Ph.D., were quoted in "New health communication major to help address 'a huge mess' in U.S." in the April 15 edition of the Daily Kent Stater. (April 17, 2009)
Lauren Rich Fine, a practitioner in residence with CCIKent, is quoted in "Should Universities Marry Newspapers?" on April 14 in BU Today. The article also appears in the Spring 2009 issue of Bostonia. (April 17, 2009)
JMC Professor Tim Smith is quoted in "BGSU rejects public records request for sculpture photos" on April 14 in the Sandusky Register. (April 17, 2009)
Associate VCD Professor David Middleton was quoted in "Students, Faculty, Staff and City Work to Improve Wayfinding Signage on Kent Campus" in E-Inside on Monday, March 30. (April 10, 2009)
Adjunct JMC Professors David Meeker and Davis Young opened Meeker-Young, LLC, a firm that provides communications coaching to leaders through curriculum-based instruction. The business announcement appeared in several media outlets, including Banker and Tradesman, Thomson Reuters, KLFY-TV and Yahoo! Finance. It was picked up by the Associated Press. (April 10, 2009)
CIKent's soon-to-be student-run integrated communications agency is earning early buzz in local papers.
Check out articles in the Akron Beacon Journal and the Daily Kent Stater. (April 17, 2009)Adjunct JMC Professors David Meeker and Davis Young opened Meeker-Young, LLC, a firm that provides communications coaching to leaders through curriculum-based instruction. The business announcement continues to generate media coverage in the Akron Beacon Journal and Earthtimes.com. (April 17, 2009)
Glyphix's honors at the American Advertising Federation Fifth District ADDY awards were noted in the April 13 Akron Beacon Journal. (April 17, 2009)
Junior advertising major Tiara Collins was the focus of "Come on Down!" KSU student enjoys experience as contestant on "The Price is Right" in the Record Courier on April 10. (April 17, 2009)
SLIS's Virginia Hamilton Conference was mentioned in "In A Flash - Weekly Message From President Lefton" on April 10. (April 17, 2009)
JMC Professor Tim Smith
was quoted in "Baxter's credibility attacked at Nuesse hearing" in the Sandusky Register on Feb. 27. (March 6, 2009)Lauren Rich Fine, CCIKent practitioner in residence, was quoted in "Seattle P-I's expected closure a sign of the times" in Seattle Times - Online and in the Seattle Times on Tuesday, March 10. View it at http://tinyurl.com/bdl2ap. Fine was also quoted in Media Life Magazine and Community Times in early March. (March 13, 2009)
Lauren Rich Fine, CCIKent practitioner in residence, was on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on March 16 (http://tinyurl.com/cndbey) and Minnesota Public Radio on March 17 to discuss the newspaper industry. (March 20, 2009)
Interim CCIKent Dean Jeff Fruit was quoted in "KSU attracting more masters students as job market dwindles" in the March 17 edition on the Daily Kent Stater. (http://tinyurl.com/dcm2eb) Interim JMC Director Greg Blase and VCD Director AnnMarie LeBlanc were both quoted in "Wanted: good students willing to put in extra time, money, dedication" in the March 17 edition of the Daily Kent Stater. (http://tinyurl.com/djgw7j) (March 20, 2009)
Grants:
Barbara Hugenberg, Ph.D., received a $15,000 Transformative Learning Grant from the Office of the Provost, Kent State University. She is using the grant funding to continue transforming COMM 15000 Introduction to Human Communication to make the course more student focused, to introduce peer mentoring and to enhance university retention. (March 6, 2009)
Assistant JMC Professor Gordon Murray, Ph.D., received a $2,500 UTC grant to support the public launch of Stories That Fly, www.storiesthatfly.com. The launch event will attract students to campus from the six district compact schools who are interested in journalism and aviation careers. Kent State undergraduate and graduate students majoring in journalism are contributing to the story assignments along with faculty, citizen journalists and members of Ohio’s aviation community. Murray was initially awarded a $17,000 start-up grant from the New Voices incubator and the STF project was selected as one of the top 10 innovative community news ventures in the United States by New Voices, a Knight Foundation-supported initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University. (March 13, 2009)
Assistant VCD Professor Shawn Simmons received a $3,250 Summer Teaching Development Grant from the University Teaching Council to transform “Making Basic Computer Less Basic.” This will be the first of VCD's technology courses to be transformed. VCD may use this model for future course transformations. (March 20, 2009)
Exhibits:
Assistant VCD Professor Shawn Simmons will have three of her books, “Fragment: Crozet, approx. 1978-1983,” “One and Three Books” and “Walking Home” in four exhibits this spring. Locations of the exhibits include: Olde Towne Arts Center, Slidell, LA; The School of Art Institute Chicago, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL; McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina; and Columbia College Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL. (March 20, 2009)
Assistant VCD Professor Jaime Kennedy will have a series of collaborative works, with artist Kelly Urquhart, on display in several exhibits this spring. Locations of the exhibits include: SPACES Gallery, Cleveland; Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH; Texas National 2009; and Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY. (March 20, 2009)
Other:
Erin Kleman, Ph.D., of the Stark Campus, in collaboration with her colleagues at Stark State College of Technology, developed an articulation agreement between Kent State and Stark State that will allow Stark State technical writing students to matriculate into the Applied Communication concentration at any of the Kent Campuses. This proposal was passed last month by EPC and by Faculty Senate. (March 6, 2009)
Awards:
The 2009 American Advertising Federation Fifth District ADDY judges awarded Glyphix a Silver ADDY Award for Moving Minds Bus Posters done for Cleveland RTA and a Student Silver ADDY Award for Hudson Montessori School Brochure done for Hudson Montessori School. The work was selected for awards against 525 local winners from Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. Assistant VCD Professor Valora Renicker supervises Glyphix. (April 10, 2009)
The Daily Kent Stater earned the Best Back-to-School Issue award from the College Newspaper Business and Advertiser Managers, Inc. at its 2009 national conference in Charlotte, N.C.
The award recognizes a special edition of the newspaper devoted to back-to-school or new student orientation that combines both display advertising and editorial content.
This is the first time the Stater has earned an award administered by CNBAM. Congratulations to Student Media Business Manager Lori Cantor and her entire team. (April 3, 2009)
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Karl Idsvoog and David Smeltzer, both JMC assistant professors of electronic media production, won an Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association for their Media Job Pod. Media Job Pod provides professional advice for students about how to find a job in the broadcast field. Idsvoog and Smeltzer will be presented with the award at the BEA 2009 Convention in Las Vegas at the end of April. To visit the Media Job Pod, go to http://www.mediajobpod.org. (April 3, 2009)
Associate JMC Professor Jeanette Drake, Ph.D.
, was recently recognized as one of the top 10 speakers out of 120 who presented at the 2008 Conference for Nonprofits Nov. 16-19 in Charleston, S.C. She co-presented a PR Boot Camp at the conference, which attracted thousands of nonprofit professionals from across the country. (March 6, 2009)-----------------------
Glyphix, VCD's student-staffed design studio, was awarded a Merit Award in the 24th Annual Admissions Advertising Awards competition for its design of the KSU School of Fashion Viewbook. The viewbook was created during the 2007-2008 academic year by three VCD students who have since graduated. The alumni involved with the project were Allie Charitan, Laura Fry and Natalie Speck.
"The viewbook project was a wonderful opportunity for the students to explore creative solutions. The Director of the School, Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes, fully supported the designers in their endeavors to produce a visually dynamic representation of the outstanding features of the Fashion School and its alumni," stated Valora Renicker, creative director of Glyphix. "It was an exciting and rewarding project and a great learning opportunity for us."
Developed during the 25th anniversary of the School of Fashion Design and Merchandising, the viewbook was written by Dr. Rhodes and Amelia Johanson. Local and on-site New York City photography was by KSU photographer Gary Harwood. Photographs of Italy by Karen Calandra enhanced the feature about the Fashion School's program in Florence.
The viewbook had also received a Silver ADDY award at in the competition in Akron, Ohio. These awards are especially significant as the viewbook competed against practicing professionals in the fields of design, advertising and marketing. The Admissions Advertising Award was received in the category of Student Viewbook for Art/Design Schools where there was one award each of Gold, Silver and Bronze and four Merit awards. (March 6, 2009)
Past Archives:
Books and publications:
CCIKent Associate Dean LuEtt Hanson, Ph.D., has co-edited Freedom and Prejudice: Approaches to Media and Culture with Suheyla Kirca Schroeder, Ph.D., associate dean of the Faculty of Communication at Baçesehir University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Associate Professor Paul M. Haridakis, Ph.D., and Director Stanley T. Wearden, Ph.D., both of Comm Studies, have published "Media Influence to Audience Mindsets: The Changing Face of Mediated Communication in the 20th and 21st Centuries," Freedom and Prejudice: Approaches to Media and Culture.
Associate Professor Yin Zhang, Ph.D.,and Assistant Professor Athena Salaba, Ph.D., both of SLIS, received the 2009 ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Award for their paper titled, “What is next to FRBR? A Delphi Study." The paper will be published in the upcoming issue of Library Quarterly.
Molly Merryman, Associate Professor, Justice Studies, Trumbull Campus, has published "Documenting Prejudice: Using Video to Reveal Hidden Truths, Freedom and Prejudice: Approaches to Media and Culture (Istanbul, Turkey: Bahcesehir University Press, 2008): 223-229.
Paul M. Haridakis, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, has published "Media Influence to Audience Mindsets: The Changing Face of Mediated Communication in the 20th and 21st Centuries," Freedom and Prejudice: Approaches to Media and Culture (Istanbul, Turkey: Bahcesehir University Press, 2008): 244-260.
Stanley T. Wearden, Director, Communication Studies, has published "Media Influence to Audience Mindsets: The Changing Face of Mediated Communication in the 20th and 21st Centuries," Freedom and Prejudice: Approaches to Media and Culture (Istanbul, Turkey: Bahcesehir University Press, 2008): 244-260.
Jerry Kalback was 1 of 12 illustrators nationally invited to illustrate a month for the 2006 NPR Calendar.
Ken Visocky O'Grady and his wife Jen (our grad) have been featured in HOW Magazine's 2005 Business Annual. Their studio, Enspace, was 1 of 5 profiled in Dec. 2004.
VCD grad Marcus Lehto was listed in the Time Magazine, Time 100 selections, 2005, in the category of Artists and Entertainers as one of the 3 developers of the video game HALO. Art director Lehto is responsible for the look of the game.
Media Quotes:
Lauren Rich Fine, CCIKent practitioner in residence, was quoted in "Bankruptcies Threaten To Shrink Newspaper Industry" on CNNMoney.com and Morningstar.com on Tuesday, Feb. 24.
Awards:
JMC Associate Professor Jeanette Drake, Ph.D., Adjunct Instructor John Kerezy and CCIKent PR Manager Jennifer Kramer won an East Central District Diamond Award for YouToo: Social Media Boot Camp. JMC Assistant Professor Hyangsook Lee played a significant role in design work for the event.
JMC Associate Professor Jeanette Drake, Ph.D., along with JMC Production Manager Evan Bailey, UCM PR Coordinator Rachel Wenger and UCM Photographer Jeff Glidden earned an East Central District Diamond Award for JMC's "Hit the Ground Running" image campaign.
JMC Assistant Professor Michele Ewing and her team of students won an East Central District Diamond Award for their efforts on the Donate Life Ohio campaign.
VCD Assistant Professor Valora Renicker and students from Glyphix won ADDYs for their campaigns: "Moving Minds Bus Posters" for RTA Cleveland, "Hudson Montessori School Brochure," "KSU School of Fashion Viewbook" and "Families Calendar" for the KSU Center for Student Involvement.
Carolyn Brodie won the Distinguished Teaching Award at KSU.
Grants:
SLIS Assistant Professor Dan Roland, Ph.D., was awarded an American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Publication Grant for $2,000 to support his project entitled “Online Data Sources for Research in Religion: An Annotated Bibliography.”
Other:
SLIS Assistant Professor Karen Gracy, Ph.D., was accepted into the 2009 Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) which consists of faculty and doctoral students from the United States and around the world pertaining to a wide range of specializations in the archival field. The Institute is scheduled for July 6-11 at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Students in David Middleton's Environmental Graphic Design course will again be participating in an interdisciplinary study with 2 other universities. Design students from Kent, architecture students from IIT and real estate MBA's from DePaul will work in teams with Chicago business leaders and Chicago Public Schools on a housing project for newly graduated student teachers.
IMLS grant for more than $350,000 between SLIS, College of Nursing, and the Ohio Literacy Resource Center (KSU) The grant concerns health information literacy among older adults.
Carolyn Brodie has been appointed to the Randolf Caldecott Award Committee of the American Library Association.