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Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Practice Mary Sterenberg for receiving The Ohio State University’s 2024 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, one of the university's most…
Congratulations to School of Communication undergraduate student Megan Husslein for being awarded the 2023 Memorial Tournament Journalism Scholarship.
The 2023 Memorial…
On May 18, School of Communication graduating senior Olivia Cohen was named Top Outstanding Graduate at the Central Ohio PRSA PRism Awards. Each of the seven Public Relations…
Mary Sterenberg, assistant professor - clinical, received the Outstanding Advisor award at the 2021 Student Life Leadership Awards for her role as advisor of the Public Relations Student Society…
The top undergraduate communication and journalism scholars were honored at the school’s annual scholarship and award ceremony on April 16. The banquet, which traditionally takes place in person,…
Dr. Lanier Holt, associate professor, was named a finalist for a Scripps Howard Award for Journalism in the Teacher of the Year category.
The The Scripps Howard Awards, presented by the…
Congratulations to Ohio State’s student-run newspaper the Lantern for being named the best student newspaper in Ohio. The Lantern received this and other awards in the Ohio News Media Association…
Joseph Bayer, assistant professor in the School of Communication, received the Mattox Award for research for 2020. The Sarah Evans Mattox Faculty Research endowment provides support on a…
Lecturer Jasmine Roberts is part of an interdisciplinary team who was recently awarded a $25,000 grant from the university’s Seed Fund for Racial Justice. In addition, the team received…
Congratulations to the Public Relations Student Society of America chapter at Ohio State for receiving a 2020 Star Chapter Award from the PRSSA 2020–2021 National Committee. The Star Chapter Award…
A research paper submitted by Dr. Lanier Holt, associate professor, and Matthew Sweitzer, PhD, on the Black Lives Matter movement was selected for the International Society of Self and Identity’s…
Lecturer Jasmine Roberts received a $500 grant from The Ohio State University's Affordable Learning Exchange in efforts to help students learn more about racial disparities and injustices.
Congratulations to Robert Bond and Kelly Garrett, who have been awarded a $50,000 grant from Facebook to study misinformation in the 2020 election.
Their project, one of 25 proposals funded…
The School of Communication expresses its sincere thanks to John Oller for his recent gift, which will support Lantern editors who are not already supported through private gifts.
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Dr. Nicole Kraft, associate professor of clinical communication, was named AEJMC's 2020 Outstanding Woman in Journalism and Mass Communication Education.
The award is presented by the…
The Ohio State University School of Communication ranks #2 in the world for 2020, Shanghai Ranking announced.
Since 2009, Shanghai Ranking, a Chinese consultancy, has ranked hundreds of…
Professor Joyce Wang has been awarded a $398,638 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to develop applications of quantum probability theory to better understand and design human…
The School of Communication is proud to honor more than 40 students with awards and scholarships for the 2019-2020 school year. We sincerely regret that we were not able to celebrate this…
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Lanier Holt, who received the Alumni Award for Distinguished teaching, Ohio State’s most prestigious teaching award. Ten selections from Ohio State’s 3…
Professor Zheng Joyce Wang has been named a Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow for 2020. Wang will receive the title, recognition and a cash award to further her research for the next three years.
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Congratulations to James Bonus and Judy Watts, who received the top paper award from the Children, Adolescents, and Media division of the International Communication Association.
Their paper…
Congratulations to professor Kelly Garrett, who received the 2019 Mattox Award for Research.
Garrett was acknowledged for six important publications in 2019; his work was featured in the
Associate professors Felecia Ross and Susan Kline won the "Top Overall Paper Award" in the African American Communication and Culture Division of the National Communication Association for their…
Congratulations to The Lantern for receiving a national award from the Student Press Law Center for journalistic integrity and commitment to the First Amendment.
The Lantern was honored for…
Ohio State PRSSA has won the PRSSA National Membership Contest. As the largest chapter in the U.S., Ohio State's chapter of PRSSA recruited more new members than any other chapter in the country.…
Associate Professor Robert Bond was named a Distinguished Alum from Arizona State University's School of Politics and Global Studies.
Bond earned his BA in political science from Arizona…
Associate professors Olga Kamenchuk and Erik Nisbet will conduct research supported by a $300,000 grant awarded to the Center for Slavic and Eastern European Studies from the U.S. State Department…
Assistant professor Hillary Shulman and her colleague Daniel Bergan from Michigan State University have won a $20,500 grant to study how local policymakers perceive the opioid crisis.
The…
A simulation developed by Nicole Kraft that teaches student journalists how to cover breaking news in real time was the first-place winner of Teaching News Terrifically competition at the 2019…
Ohio State School of Communication was ranked #1 in the nation and #2 in the world from ShanghaiRanking's 2019 academic subject rankings.
Since 2003, the Academic Ranking of World…
Alisha Nelson, who received her BA in Communication from Ohio State in 2006, was named the 2019 How Firm Thy Friendship Award Winner.
Nelson is the director of RecoveryOhio, an initiative…
On Sunday May 26, Mike Slater, Director of the School of Communication and Social and Behavioral Science Distinguished Professor, was honored with the 2019 Steven H. Chaffee Career…
The School of Communication honored over 30 undergraduate students with awards and scholarships at a reception April 22. The School commends its students for excellence in writing,…
The Lantern earned recognition from the Ohio News Media Association at the 2019 Collegiate Newspaper and Website Competition. The student newspaper earned first place awards in the…
Assistant Professor James Alex Bonus won the Sarah Evans Mattox Faculty Research Award based on articles published during 2018. This endowment provides support on a competitive basis for a faculty…
Aaron Smith, the assistant to the director of the School of Communication, won the College of Arts and Sciences Staff Excellence Award for December 2018. Smith was presented the award by…
Assistant Professor – Clinical Nicole Kraft received a Kappa Tau Alpha Research Grant to study the value of the messaging app Slack on teaching. Slack is available on laptops, desktops and mobile…
Ohio State’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) earned a Star Chapter Award from national PRSSA for the third consecutive year. The chapter earned this designation…
The Ohio State University School of Communication was ranked No. 1 in Communication in the 2018 ShanghaiRanking. This is the second year in a row the School of Communication has been named No. 1 by…
Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest, sponsored by the Columbus and Cincinnati chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists, recently recognized The Lantern as one of Ohio’s best college…
William “Chip” Eveland, professor of communication & professor of political science, and Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, professor of communication, were elected as Fellows of the International…
Nicole Kraft, assistant professor (clinical), received the AEJMC Media Ethics Division’s Teaching Excellence Award for 2018. The award looked specifically at Kraft’s Media Law and…
School of Communication graduating senior Lily Ng was awarded Top Outstanding Graduate at the Central Ohio PRSA PRism Awards on May 17. Each of the six PRSSA chapters in the Central Ohio area…
The Center for World University Rankings named the Ohio State School of Communication the top-performing communication research program in the world in its 2017 rankings.
CWUR is a leading…
The top undergraduate students in the School of Communication were honored at the annual Undergraduate Scholarship and Awards ceremony April 23 in the Ohio Union.
Top Communication Scholar…
The Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Ohio State awarded Jessica Frampton, a PhD student in the School of Communication, an honorable mention for its 2017-2018 Outstanding Writing…
Last week, graduate students and faculty gathered for Comm Day, the School of Communication’s annual graduate student award ceremony and end of the year banquet. The event took place on Friday, April…
Michael Slater, director of the School of Communication, received an honorary doctorate on March 29 from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Slater, who is a distinguished professor in Social and…
Assistant Professor Richard Huskey and graduate student Shelby Wilcox recently received a Poster Award from the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. Their winning poster is titled “What are the…
The research of several faculty members and graduate students in the School of Communication received recognition from the International Communication Association and will be highlighted at the 2018…
The Ohio State University selected three PhD students from the School of Communication to receive the Carol Carr Brown Graduate…
School of Communication alumna Shaniqua Ingol (BA, communication analysis and practice, 2015) was recently given the Ohio State’s Police Division Citizen Award for her outreach programming that…
School of Communication Director Michael Slater was selected to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp. Slater’s research includes theory-building efforts in message effects,…
Nicole Kraft, assistant professor-clinical, recently received a 2017 Tech Edvocate Award. Kraft won the award for Best Professor for her commitment to working with technology in education. The…
Kevin Stankiewicz, The Lantern editor in chief, was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists National Award for Sports Writing.
Stankiewicz received this award for the projects he…
Nick Polavin, PhD student in the School of Communication, won The American Society of Trial Consultants’ Top Research Poster Award this year. Polavin's research was conducted with professor Dr…
School of Communication alumna Jamila Williams (BA, journalism, 2009) was awarded with an Emmy Award from the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Williams is…
Brad Bushman, professor of communication, has been selected by the American Psychological Association to receive the Kurt Lewin Award for outstanding contributions to the development and…
The Ohio State University School of Communication was ranked No. 1 in Journalism and Communication in the 2017 ShanghaiRanking.
The ShanghaiRanking Consultancy is an independent organization…
Jenna Leinasars, recent Ohio State graduate and outgoing news director for Lantern TV, won an Ohio Valley Emmy.
Leinasars received the Student Production Award for her piece from Lantern TV…
The Newspaper and Online News division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication awarded two graduate students with the MacDougall Student Paper…
Assistant Professor Nicole Kraft received the 2017 Academic Programs Section’s Innovation in Teaching Award for her proposal, “Blending agricultural and journalism students and faculty in the…
Assistant Professor Richard Huskey was named the 2017 Annie Lang Dissertation Award recipient for the Information Systems Division of the International Communication Association.
Huskey’s…
The Communication Theory and Methodology division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication awarded School of Communication faculty and graduate student with top papers…
Three School of Communication undergraduate students received awards at The Ohio State University's annual Leadership Awards on April 21.
Emma Grubaugh, a junior Strategic Communication…
The Lantern was recently recognized with four Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. These awards consider all college newspapers in Ohio, Michigan, Western…
Ohio State ranked 21 in the world in Communication & Media Studies in the 2017 QS World University Rankings by Subject, released in March on www.topuniversities.com. The school moved up two spots…
Undergraduate student Daniel Rodriguez recently received the Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award. This award is presented annually to a faculty member, regular staff member or student…
Kelly Dillon, a recent PhD graduate, was named the 2017 Outstanding Student Dissertation Award recipient for American Psychological Association (APA) Division 46. The award is given to an…
Susan Kline, associate professor, was recently elected to serve a three-year term as a University Senator representing the College of Arts and Sciences. Her term will begin in Fall 2017 semester…
The International Communication Association recognized several School of Communication faculty and graduate students with top papers and other awards. The papers will be presented at the 2017 ICA…
Sarah Mikati, fourth-year honors journalism, Middle East studies and French major, recently received The Ohio State University Board of Trustees Student Recognition Award for her achievements…
Joseph Bayer, assistant professor, was recently awarded the Sarah Evans Mattox Faculty Research award. This endowment provides support on a competitive basis for a faculty member's research…
Dr. Zheng (Joyce) Wang is the recepient of the 2016 ASCoR McQuail Award. This award is given annually to the best article advancing communication theory published in peer-reviewed journals in the…
School of Communication Professor Brad Bushman recently received the Kurt Lewin Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI).
The award is presented annually…
School of Communication alumnus and former Ohio State football player, Jeffrey Logan was recently honored by the Alumni Association and awarded the Ralph Davenport Mershon Award. This award is…
The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) of The Ohio State University won a Star Chapter Award when the group traveled to Indianapolis recently for the PRSSA National Conference…
Joyce Wang was recently appointed the faculty member in residence for the Translational Data Analytics effort at Ohio State. She will continue to be an active faculty member in the School of…
According to a recently published Google Scholar ranking, five of the 25 most cited Journal of Communication articles published in the past five years were written by OSU School of…
Erik Nisbet and co-authors Kelly Garrett and doctoral candidate Kathryn Cooper received the ComSHER Article of the Year Award for their article "The Partisan Brain: How Dissonant Science Messages…
Three Ohio State students, Golnoosh Behrouzian (first author), Aysenur Dal and Emma Fete,…
Lantern TV won 2016 College Emmy awards for General News Assignment and Writing from the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Lantern TV’s meteorologist was…
A School of Communication student’s plan to study the societal changes wrought by the Nov. 13 Paris terror attacks won the support of a research scholarship and an international research grant…
Graduate student Morgan Schunn received the 2015-2016 Outstanding Writing Instruction Award from the Ohio State Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing. This award recognized her use of…
Elizabeth Riggs, a double major in Film Studies and Communications Analysis and Practice and research assistant for communication PhD student Courtney Anderegg, received a $1,000 Research Scholar…
Ohio State’s student newspaper The Lantern walked away from the annual Ohio Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards with major accolades. These awards honor the best in…
Communication PhD students Emma Fete, Golnoosh Behrouzian, and Aysenur Dal received funding from the Mershon Center to support their dissertation research this year. Combined, the…
Two undergraduate School of Communication students won third place in the Social and Behavioral Sciences category at the 2016 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum March 30. Erin Gottsacker, second…
Ohio State School of Communication faculty and students hold several leadership positions with the upcoming International Communication Association conference in June in Fukuoka, Japan. Associate…
Thirty Ohio State School of Communication faculty, graduate and PhD students will participate in the International Communication Association Conference June 9-13 in Fukuoka, Japan. Students and…
PhD Student Matt Irwin is the lead author of “Dynamic Modeling in Communication Research,” a paper named Best Papers in Information Systems by the International Communication Association. He will…
The Lantern received the Frank E. Deaner Award for Excellence in Collegiate Journalism, Division A, for the sixth year in a row. The Ohio Newspaper Association presents this award to the top…
Fifteen School of Communication graduate students played a prominent role at the 2015 ICA Conference of the International Communication Association this May in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Students…
The Ohio State EcoCAR team collected its second consecutive team victory in a four-year competition to reengineer a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro into a performance hybrid at the EcoCAR 3 Year One…
Professors Dave Ewoldson and Michael Slater co-authored a paper with PhD student Nathan Silver and Ohio State PhD graduate Benjamin Johnson, who is now an assistant professor at the VU University…
Lead Author Associate Professor Kelly Garrett and co-authoring PhD students Rachel Neo and Aysenur Dal and alumnus Ben Johnson received the 2015 Lynda Lee Kaid Best Published Paper in Political…
Doctoral student David Clementson’s paper "When does a Presidential Candidate seem Presidential and Trustworthy? Campaign Messages Through the Lens of Language Expectancy Theory" was accepted for…
In two new papers in the journals, Current Directions in Psychological Science and Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Zheng (Joyce) Wang, associate professor, communication and…
Making Mojos: How iPads Are Enhancing Mobile Journalism Education, written by Nicole Kraft, assistant professor-clinical, and Natalee Seely, was recognized at the national Mobile…