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Will This New Superpower Molecule Revolutionize Science?

In a new study, Kent State Professor Hanbin Mao and other researchers report the creation of an artificial molecule with superpowers. It has the potential to revolutionize nanotechnology – and it also explains one of nature’s intriguing enigmas: Why do we have a right hand and a left hand?

Communication Studies Course Examines Terrorism as a Communicative Act

Terrorism can be a heavy subject for many to digest, but for Communication Studies faculty, it is a teaching opportunity. 

Professor Blends New Technology with Traditional Illustration in VCD Courses

In today’s world of design and emerging technologies, digital production is a tool that’s widely used and here to stay. Assistant Professor Chad Lewis in the School of Visual Communication Design is incorporating these new technologies into the classroom to further develop students’ creative problem-solving abilities.  

Leadership Update

Â鶹´«Ã½ President Todd Diacon updated the university community on recent actions regarding the senior administration of the university.

Professor Shares Insight into Olympic Viewing Patterns Across Audiences

As the world’s attention turns to the Olympic Games for the second time in 12 months, Kent State Professor Tang Tang’s research offers insight on how audience patterns of viewing major sporting events have changed over the last 12 years. Tang, Ph.D., joined Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2018 as the College of Communication and Information sought to hire in the area of new media technology. 

Seasoned Marketing Communications Executive Joins Media and Journalism Faculty

Kent State alumnus Mike Jackson, innovator and marketing communications executive, is joining Kent State’s School of Media and Journalism as a professional-in-residence this spring. He is teaching two classes and will serve as adviser to the student organization Franklin Advertising.

December 2021 Social Media Recap

Happy New Year, Golden Flashes.

KENT: Where a lifetime of passionate storytelling and advocacy for people with disabilities was born (and a soulmate was discovered)

When I walked into Taylor Hall as an 18-year-old freshman in 1983, I had no idea that the foundation for my professional and personal life would take place there.

While earning a bachelor’s degree in Journalism in 1987, I was a section editor at the Daily Kent Stater — in a newsroom packed with future journalism giants whose achievements are too numerous to mention.

NewsLab Provides Important Community Reporting Experiences for Students, While Helping Local Newsrooms in Crucial Times

The School of Media and Journalism organized a project called the Collaborative NewsLab to provide students with real world work experience, while newsrooms, hit with unprecedented financial challenges, were resorting to layoffs and furloughs early in the pandemic.