Kent State University advertising student Michael Weber balances a 4.0 GPA with a thriving passion for music – a passion that recently propelled him to win first place on MTV’s talent show, “Amazingness.” The episode featuring Weber, ’19, aired nationally on Jan. 5, 2018. It featured six acts competing for a $10,000 prize, which Weber ultimately won for his talent of playing guitar. Music has been Weber’s passion since childhood. When he’s not studying advertising in Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC), he’s working on music and promotion for his band, The Michael...

Kent State University advertising student Michael Weber balances a 4.0 GPA with a thriving passion for music – a passion that recently propelled him to win first place on MTV’s talent show, “Amazingness.” The episode featuring Weber, ’19, aired nationally on Jan. 5, 2018. It featured six acts competing for a $10,000 prize, which Weber ultimately won for his talent of playing guitar. Music has been Weber’s passion since childhood. When he’s not studying advertising in Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC), he’s working on music and promotion for his band, The Michael...

Jan. 13:  Dr. Leslie Heaphy is the coordinator of the Honors Program and an associate professor in the Department of History at Kent State University at Stark. Her book, The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960, was a finalist for the Seymour Medal for the Best Book on Baseball.  Heaphy's contributions to the history of baseball earned her the Bob Davids Award from the Society for American Baseball Research and invitations to be a panelist at the Major League Baseball All-Star Fan Fest for multiple years in a row. Read more about Leslie Heaphy  ...

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COMM Assistant Professor Cristin A. Compton, Ph.D., co-authored “Organizing Sexuality: Silencing and the Push-Pull Process of Co-Sexuality in the Workplace” in the Journal of Communication Vol. 67, Issue 6, 2017, 874-896.   The article was co-authored by Debbie S. Dougherty from the University of Missouri.   “This project emerged from my dissertation. I described to Debbie how frustrated people are with LGBTQ+. Everybody that I’ve talked to is frustrated with these important yet quickly shifting categories; we’ve got a giant spectrum of terms and it’s causing confusion ...

School of Communication Studies Assistant Professor Jennifer M. McCullough, Ph.D., co-authored “Screen Exposure During Daily Routines and a Young Child’s Risk for Having Social-Emotional Delay” in Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 56, No. 5, 2017, 1244-1253.   “Dr. Raman was a Pediatric Fellow at Akron’s Children Hospital, and she was concerned about how screen time may be interrupting important routines which are an important part of social-emotional development," McCullough said. "The study was supported by an Akron Children’s Hospital Foundation Research Fund grant to further ...

A film made by Kent State University students and professors about the diverse Akron neighborhood, Highland Square, has had its international debut. The documentary, “Highland Lives” aired this week on the UK television program, “Tales From the Margins,” an LGBTQ program broadcast on the Latest TV network, based in Brighton. The film was made in 2013 as part of the class, Special Topics: LGBTQ Methods, said Molly Merryman, Ph.D., director of Kent State’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and an associate professor of sociology. Merryman said the class was a collaborative te...