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Jessica Barness (right), assistant professor of visual communication design at Kent State, reviews a student鈥檚 work in the Art Building.

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.

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Students gather at the site where one of four slain students was shot on May 4, 1970, during a student protest of the Vietnam War.

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.

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