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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Student Media won 18 national awards presented by The College Media Association and The Associated Collegiate Press at the 2019 National College Media Convention in Washington, D.C. from Friday, Nov. 1 to Saturday, Nov.2.

The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) awarded PRSSA Kent the highest national honors for a chapter, the 2019 Outstanding Chapter Award. Public relations major Vanessa Gresley, PRSSA Kent’s vice president of professional relations, earned the Gold Key Award, the highest PRSSA honor for students.

Professor Jacqueline Marino is a 2019 recipient of ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì's highest teaching honor, the Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA).

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì has placed in the top tier of the Effie Collegiate Brand Challenge from 2019-21 and in 2016. This competition gave students the chance to work with well-known brands like Subaru, Bose and V8. In 2019, advertising students earned second place for creating a marketing campaign that reinvented the car buying process for young consumers. They presented in front of senior executives at Subaru’s headquarters.

An interdisciplinary team of ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University faculty will participate in a $13.3 million USAID grant to improve educational outcomes for Nigerian children, seeking to reach 200 schools and improve the teaching skills of over 5,000 teachers while impacting 200,000 students.

Each year, the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) — the authoritative body for typography worldwide — assesses and evaluates visual communicators’ work.

Photo students at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì consistently develop portfolios that stand up to national and regional competition.

Journalism major Madison MacArthur, '20, has learned through many experiences in ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s College of Communication and Information (CCI), what it means to be a storyteller.

Stereotypes and false assumptions can make our differences seem bigger than they really are.

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Athletics and TeleProductions collaborated to design and install a brand-new HD video display system in the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center).