Fossilized dinosaur feces, dating back 75-million years ago, has scientists rethinking the eating habits of certain dinosaurs. Instead of consuming plants, some herbivores from the Cretaceous period also snacked on crustaceans, including lobsters, crab and shrimp. Kent State University’s Professor Emeritus Rodney Feldmann and Jessica Tashman, a doctoral student in the Department of Geology in Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences, authored the study along with Karen Chin, associate professor and curator of paleontology at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Museum of Natural Histo...

Written By Stephanie Walton, TeleProductions Public Relations Assistant   TeleProductions is saying goodbye to three of its graduating student employees; Madison Bitzel, Susanne Ketchum, and Patrick Kern will be walking across the Kent State University stage this fall and into their new careers.   TeleProductions is an important aspect of these students’ college career because it gives them relevant work experience and will serve as a stepping stone into their career of choice.   All three graduating seniors have received the opportunity to work in many differe...

Come one, come all to help attempt to break the world record of the World's Largest Barefoot Painted Mural! Painting began Sept. 30 at the Kent Creativity Festival. Everyone from newborn to 105 can help make this 30,000-square-foot mural a reality and a sign of hope to all of the negativity flooding the news. Help paint the mural on Oct. 13 at 3 p.m. at the Kent State University Commons. Let's paint the world, step by step! Read more from the Record Courier. ...

The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) held its September 2017 “Super-Regional” BEA On-Location conference at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Penn.   Zachary Humphries, doctoral student of the Kent State University College of Communication and Information, and Paul Haridakis, Ph.D., School of Communication Studies professor, earned second place Debut Research Paper for their work on, “The President and the Executive Order: Cable News Coverage of President Trump’s Travel Ban.”   “During the first two weeks of his Presidency, for example, President Donald Tru...

The conditions in Lake Erie continue to pose several health risks to Ohioans in coastal communities, making it difficult to maintain good water quality for citizens, state and local policymakers. A recent publication in Frontiers in Marine Science shows how researchers in the Great Lakes region are working toward innovative solutions. John Lekki, Ph.D., NASA Glenn Research Center’s principal investigator, in collaboration with co-investigators from local universities including Kent State University won a NASA water quality proposal in June 2017. This recent grant offers an opportunity to impl...

The Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender (OSCLG) held its 40th annual conference, themed “40 Shades of Purple: Four Decades of Feminisms,” Oct. 5 – 8 in Omaha, Neb.  Suzy D’Enbeau, Ph.D., associate professor and graduate coordinator in the Kent State University School of Communication Studies, along with COMM graduate students Kelsey Husnick and Daniel Socha, discussed their research, “Queerness in Ghana: ‘It was White People That Brought it to Africa.’”  With Patrice Buzzanell of Purdue University, D’Enbeau also shared her paper, “Theorizing Feminist Re...

Candace Bowen, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) and director of the Center for Scholastic Journalism, is a finalist for the 50th annual Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA). The award is sponsored by the Kent State Alumni Association and honors full time faculty members who show excellence in educating and devotion to their students. It is Kent State’s highest teaching honor “The award means a lot to me because I really value teaching,” Bowen said. Bowen “unofficially” began teaching during her fifth-grade summer, when she collected old worksheets f...