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 Janet M. Box-Steffensmeir, the interim executive dean and vice provost of the College of Arts and Sciences. The award is to recognize a staff member for their valuable contributions to the College of Arts and Sciences.
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 devices and allows students to communicate with each other and faculty. Kraft plans to study the use of Slack as an email replacement in a journalism class.
“Millennials are not inclined to use email, and it creates a barrier to communication between students and faculty,” Kraft said.
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.
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 newspapers. The publication was awarded first and second prize in the following categories:
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 Ethics course. The teaching award will be granted during the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Washington, D.C., in August.
Kraft also served as a MED officer for 2017-18.
