Success Story

David Anderson, Founder and President of the BridgeLeader Network, Served as Keynote Speaker at University鈥檚 Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Scholar Gets Students, Kent State on the Move

November Scholar Puts Communication on Display
Scholar of the Month
Jessica Barness
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
College of Communication and Information
2012-present
The word 鈥渃ommunication鈥 likely makes you think of language, but November鈥檚 Scholar of the Month has spent her entire career researching design as a language of its own.
Across various media, Jessica Barness, an assistant professor in Kent State University鈥檚 School of Visual Communication Design, creates her own design-based research model that merges the making of artifacts with critical inquiry.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Announces Special Designation of Kent State鈥檚 May 4 Site
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the designation of the Kent State University May 4, 1970, Site as a . The site joins more than 2,500 historic places that bear the national distinction.