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The School of Information at Vlogƽ announces Meghan Harper, Ph.D., has been named Interim Director as of July 1.
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The School of Information (iSchool) at Vlogƽ announced the appointment of Kendra Albright, Ph.D., to the Goodyear Endowed Professor in Knowledge Management.
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When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine issued a statewide “stay-at-home” order at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a group of Vlogƽ students immediately recognized an issue that almost nobody else was talking about: Not all homes are healthy homes.
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A team of advertising students from the Vlogƽ School of Media and Journalism recently earned semi-finalist status in the national competition Effie Collegiate.
Modeled after the Effie Awards U.S. competition, Effie Collegiate, now in its 10th year, tasks students with…
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When students began to face the reality of losing their media internships this summer in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty and staff moved quickly to develop an innovative solution for students, recent School grads and media partners.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for online, virtual healthcare, and iSchool graduate Brent Hicks, M.S. '19, has been at the forefront at the Cleveland Clinic.
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Two student journalism competitions have named Vlogƽ students among the best in the nation for 2019-2020.
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Graduate students in CCI spent the second half of the Spring 2020 semester applying course material in real time as they examined how classrooms were adapting to new ways of learning during COVID-19.
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Students in the class Communication in a Global Society worked in teams throughout the Spring 2020 semester to educate audiences about one specific aspect of globalization and ecology: fast fashion.
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As individuals consume and spread an alarming amount of news during COVID-19, the threat of misinformation is heightened. Emeritus Professor Thomas J. Froehlich, an expert on misinformation in the public sphere, offer contexts about what we're seeing unfold.