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COMM Assistant Professor Cristin A. Compton, Ph.D., co-authored “Organizing Sexuality: Silencing and the Push-Pull Process of Co-Sexuality in the Workplace” in the Journal of Communication Vol. 67, Issue 6, 2017, 874-896.   The article was co-authored by Debbie S. Dougherty from the University of Missouri.   “This project emerged from my dissertation. I described to Debbie how frustrated people are with LGBTQ+. Everybody that I’ve talked to is frustrated with these important yet quickly shifting categories; we’ve got a giant spectrum of terms and it’s causing confusion ...

 School of Communication Studies Assistant Professor Jennifer M. McCullough, Ph.D., co-authored “Screen Exposure During Daily Routines and a Young Child’s Risk for Having Social-Emotional Delay” in Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 56, No. 5, 2017, 1244-1253. “Dr. Raman was a Pediatric Fellow at Akron’s Children Hospital, and she was concerned about how screen time may be interrupting important routines which are an important part of social-emotional development," McCullough said. "The study was supported by an Akron Children’s Hospital Foundation Research Fund grant to furthe...

A film made by 91��Ƭ�� students and professors about the diverse Akron neighborhood, Highland Square, has had its international debut. The documentary, “Highland Lives” aired this week on the UK television program, “Tales From the Margins,” an LGBTQ program broadcast on the Latest TV network, based in Brighton. The film was made in 2013 as part of the class, Special Topics: LGBTQ Methods, said Molly Merryman, Ph.D., director of Kent 91��Ƭ��’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and an associate professor of sociology. Merryman said the class was a collaborative te...

Doctoral student plants gardens atop Cleveland buildings to bridge urban design with natural biology A bird’s-eye view of most cities captures the barren landscape of asphalt-covered rooftops, sprawling from one high-rise structure to another. As the sunshine makes its way across the city, the intense rays bake the dark roofs; and when the sun turns to rainfall, it floods the concrete sidewalks below. Urban architecture in most areas across the United 91��Ƭ��s is not ecofriendly - after all - many buildings date back generations, long before the green movement started making its way from Euro...

Forthcoming Current graduate student in bold Taylor, Tiffany, Brianna Turgeon, and Christi Gross. (Forthcoming). “’Here on the Front Lines’: Welfare-to-Work Managers’ Moral Identity Work.” Symbolic Interaction. Taylor, Tiffany, Brianna Turgeon, and Christi Gross. (Forthcoming). “Becoming a Good Welfare Manager: Paternalistic Oppressive Othering and Boundary Maintenance.” Sociological Focus. Turgeon, Brianna. Print Forthcoming. “A Critical Discourse Analysis of Welfare-to-Work Program Managers’ Expectations and Evaluations of their Clients’ Mothering.” Critical Socio...

Jan. 6:  Emelia Sherin is a current student at 91��Ƭ�� and co-creator of the play “(In)dependent, The Heroin Project. The play deals with the opioid addiction crisis in her hometown of Warren, Ohio. Learn more about The Heroin Project   ...

91��Ƭ��’s Executive Vice President and Provost Todd Diacon, Ph.D., will be featured on an upcoming PBS “American Experience” program. The show, titled “Into the Amazon” traces the 1914 journey of President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Mariano Da Silva Rondon into the heart of the South American rainforest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon River. The program is set to air at 9 p.m. Jan. 9 on WNEO/WAEO, Channel 45/49.  “Into the Amazon” was written, produced and directed by John Maggio and executive produced by Mark Samels. The fi...

Dr. Mariann Harding is dedicated to educating the next generation of nurses. The 91��Ƭ�� at Tuscarawas nursing professor served on the editing team of the 10th edition of the award-winning book, Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems. Harding wrote four chapters for the book, including “Professional Nursing Practice” and “Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalance” and was section editor for ten chapters. The book was recently named a 2017 book of the year winner by the American Journal of Nursing (AJN). AJN, a leading voice of nursing since 190...