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Several fashion design and merchandising students took first place in the Art/Fashion category of the 2018 KSU Undergraduate Research Symposium earlier this month. This year’s Symposium had the highest participation ever in the history of this annual event, resulting in nearly 400 students participating – a 60% increase compared to last year.   Undergraduate students of any major are eligible to participate and must submit a brief abstract of their work that indicates their intent to participate. In order to be eligible, their research, scholarly work, or activity must be completed ...

Niara Johnson, a freshman fashion merchandising major, was one of only five students chosen to receive a 2018 College of the Arts Flash Grant.  There will be a special reception on May 1, from 4:30 – 5:30 in the Rockwell Hall Atrium to celebrate her project, “Saving the World Through Sewing”. Flash Grants are open to students from any major within the College of the Arts, but their team can be comprised of students from another major, school or college on the Kent Campus. The College awards grants of up to $600 to fund their research projects; Johnson was awarded the full $600 amount. ...

Alumni from the ����Vlog�ƽ�� School of Journalism and Mass Communication were part of two 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning stories. Terry DeMio, '86, the heroin beat reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, was one of two lead writers for “Seven Days of Heroin,” which won the Pulitzer for local news reporting. She has been reporting on the opioid epidemic in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky for several years.  The story chronicled an "ordinary" week for people dealing with the heroin crisis, from those facing addiction and their families, to paramedics and police offi...

The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality is pleased to announce this year's recipients of undergraduate scholarship. To view past winners please visit our "For Students" section. Congratulations to all our students for their excellent academic accomplishments.   Erin Kessler for the Curry-Meyers scholarship ($2000 award) (Honors College, Major: Public Health, Minors: LGBTQ Studies and Health Care Ethics) Natasha Gaj for the Akron PFLAG scholarship ($1500 award) (Honors College, Major: English, Minors: LGBTQ Studies and Human Sexuality) Sean Sho...

Over the course of the past year, ����Vlog�ƽ�� students have worked with ����Vlog�ƽ�� Independent Films (KSUIF) to create its newest project, Fly By Night. The film will premiere with a red-carpet event at 7 p.m., on Saturday, April 28 in Cartwright Hall. The event will consist of food, merchandise and a Q&A with the directors.   The full-length film, which has a runtime of 87 minutes, is a neo-noir crime drama that follows two detectives who lead very opposite lives. This is KSUIF's fifth feature film; for the past ten years, the student media organization has produced a ...

Gretchen Dworznik, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will present her research on Friday, April 20, as part of the Spring 2018 College of Communication and Information (CCI) Research Colloquium.   Dworznik will present her research titled, “Hurricane Harvey: PTSD in Journalists” at 2:15 p.m. in Rm. 158 Taylor Hall. She will discuss her study of posttraumatic stress (PTSD) and depression in journalists who covered Hurricane Harvey, which hit southeast Texas in September of last year. The hurricane was devastating, not because...