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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…