College of Communication & Information
36th Annual Telly Awards TeleProductions won three bronze Telly Awards for productions created by staff and our student crew. The Telly Awards are one of the most prestigious awards for local, regional and national video productions, films and commercials. According to the Telly Award’s website, each year more than 12,000 entries are submitted for judging from all 50 states and five continents. Silver and bronze Telly Awards are given to productions that meet requirements based on a high standard of merit. While entries do not compete against each other, judges have specific criteria ...
Technology that gives groups of people a united voice to communicate by harnessing their collective intelligence is one step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Innovation Fund. reMesh, founded by 5XÉçÇø graduate student Andrew Konya, offers a community, group, nation or planet of people the ability to speak with one voice; a voice that represents the collective thinking of all people within the group. The underlying technology was prototyped at a HacKSU hackathon earlier this year, and over the past six months, it has been under development into ...
Rural and underserved Ohio students are able to receive speech-language therapy services through 5XÉçÇø via an innovative online videoconferencing system. More than 100 children enrolled in preschool through high school with identified communication impairments from Montpelier Exempted Village Schools in northwest Ohio and Greenfield Exempted Village Schools in southeast Ohio are receiving speech-language therapy services through Kent State’s telepractice project. Kent State faculty members Patty Chafin and Robin Alvares, Ph.D., are part of the telepractice project and pr...