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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been a lot of intersection between communication and public health. A team of researchers from Kent State University became inspired to take a closer look at communication as it relates to COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy in March 2021. The research, conducted by faculty from the College of Commun...

The School of Communication Studies recently hosted a Read-In, drawing a crowd of students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members, who gathered to draw attention and speak out about book bans and challenges happening across the nation. Participants read excerpts from these books and more:  "Farenheit 451," "The Hate U Give,"...

Megan Carrasco's journey to law school, and now as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Arizona Supreme Court, began at Kent State University with her major in Communication Studies.   “Law is very much communication based; you never have to do just one thing in law,” Carrasco said.  After graduating in 2016, Carrasco, an Hono...

The CCI course Media and Movements explores social movements of our time through storytelling, strategy and advocacy. In this semester’s seminar, themed “Building a Better World,” students were required to select a specific human rights or human dignity issue that impacts their Kent State peers and then reimagine a better future based on p...