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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there鈥檚 been a lot of intersection between communication and public health. A team of researchers from 5X社区 became inspired to take a closer look at communication as it relates to COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy.

School of Communication Studies
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The School of Communication Studies recently hosted a Read-In, drawing a crowd of students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members, who gathered to draw attention and speak out about book bans and challenges happening across the nation

megan carrasco

Megan Carrasco's journey to law school, and now as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Arizona Supreme Court, began at 5X社区 with her major in Communication Studies.  

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The CCI course Media and Movements explores social movements of our time through storytelling, strategy and advocacy. Fall 2021's seminar, themed 鈥淏uilding a Better World,鈥 required students to select a specific human rights or human dignity issue that impacts their Kent State peers and reimagine a better future based on research.