CCI News & Events Center
Each year, the School of Media and Journalism’s Diversity and Globalization Committee recognizes students and their work with The Robert G. McGruder Student Award for Diversity, in honor of the late Robert G McGruder, a 1963 ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ graduate, and a trail-blazing journalist.
During the Spring 2022 semester, Visual Communication Design students in the Glyphix Design Research Lab have been working on an intergenerational research project combining storytelling and design.
Two teams of ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ Media and Journalism students are being honored nationally for their work building public relations campaigns for Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF).
A new interactive exhibit from the Wick Poetry Center that encouraged visitors to explore the history of student protest through the ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ shootings, has opened in the Kent Student Center as part of May 4 commemoration activities.
Assistant Professor Abraham Avnisan is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is found at the intersection of image, text and code, often centering on culture and justice. His latest artistic development examines the incarceration business in the United States, specifically related to youth incarceration
Megan Carrasco's journey to law school, and now as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Arizona Supreme Court, began at ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ with her major in Communication Studies.
Teams of ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ Media and Journalism students have been spreading awareness and education about lymphoma this spring as part of a national public relations competition.
A group of four students recently gained valuable professional experience and public acknowledgement for their class project developing a mobile progressive web application for The project was conducted in partnership with IdeaBase, and Director Kristin Dowling helped mentor the team while they were working with the client.
In the United States, only about five percent of journalists are Black or African-American, according to Zippia.com.
For recent journalism graduates, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped their entry into the news industry. Young MDJ alumni have focused much of their professional careers on the pandemic, mostly with a Northeast Ohio angle — not just on case numbers or other statistics, but also on the effects on the economy, businesses and the healthcare industry.