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 Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Science Communication, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and others.
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 analysis of newspaper coverage of the black church in the Obama-Wright controversy.
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 its pursuit of obtaining public records to help break news surrounding the university.
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.
Members of Ohio State PRSSA and the chapter will be honored at PRSSA International Conference Oct. 18-22 in San Diego, California.
For the announcement from PRSSA National, visit Twitter.
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 State University in 2006 and his master's in 2007.
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.
Kamenchuk and Nisbet's research project will focus on attitudes surrounding foreign policy and international disinformation in Serbia. They will compare new survey research to ones previously conducted in Ukraine and Russia.
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 grant, entitled "Local policymakers' perceptions of the opioid crisis and the efficacy of extension communications," was awarded by the North Central Regional Center for Urban Development.
