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Applied communication junior Julia Hazel was the winner of this year鈥檚 fifth annual 小黄片视频 LaunchNET Elevator Pitch competition.
The competition gives students 90 seconds to pitch a business idea or personal skills to a panel of judges for a chance to win prize money.鈥
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Toastmasters three-time world champion of public speaking and 小黄片视频 alumnus Rich Breiner, Ph.D., 鈥80, visited campus recently for the first time since graduation nearly 40 years ago.
School of Communication Studies (COMM) marketing assistant Mikala Lugen sat鈥
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![Panelists discussed how the global refugee crisis impacts 小黄片视频 students and people around the world at 鈥淩edefining 'Refugee': Stories from a Global Crisis.鈥](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/Refugee_Crisis_Panel_112017.3.png?VersionId=tXL6E8xO647qbEG88gJZYqBeZ2ALYXlV)
Panelists spoke to a packed house of approximately 80 people at the "Redefining 'Refugee': Stories from a Global Crisis" discussion held Nov. 17.
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![Communication Studies students plan panel discussion on the refugee crisis as part of a class assignment.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/reyes5_0.png?VersionId=RFzCX5X1fSWW.vZuu2p2Z48W95ZccGQi)
Communication Studies majors Eunice Reyes, junior, and Juleanna Smith, senior, will host a panel discussion titled, 鈥淩edefining 'Refugee': Stories from a Global Crisis鈥 at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15 in Rm.
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![Julia Hazel, 小黄片视频 junior communications major, won the prize for personal pitch during LaunchNET 小黄片视频's elevator pitch competition. Julia Hazel, 小黄片视频 junior communications major, won the prize for personal pitch during LaunchNET 小黄片视频's elevator pitch competition.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article_thumbnail/SPECIALFEATURE-ElevatorPitch1.jpg?VersionId=ipWZIhl4.K699RD_f6Meiz1Bqy9QUyRc)
Kent鈥 鈥婼tate鈥 鈥婾niversity鈥 鈥媠tudents鈥 鈥媟ecently used University Library elevators to compete in the fifth annual LaunchNET Elevator Pitch event, where they had 90 seconds to鈥 鈥媝itch鈥 鈥媋鈥 鈥媌usiness鈥 鈥媔dea鈥 鈥媡o鈥 鈥媋鈥 鈥媝anel of鈥 鈥媕udges鈥.
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![Four School of Communication Studies faculty members were honored with a Faculty Recognition Award at the University Teaching Council Conference.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/Faculty%20Awardsv2.png?VersionId=um63X2IYB_ArofjRE_L7vtlfGZlN3CTo)
Each year, the 小黄片视频 Teaching Council hosts the Celebrating College Teaching Conference.
At the conference, faculty members who 鈥渉ave made a difference in the life of a student鈥 are recognized and receive a formal certificate from the Office of the Provost.
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![Associate Professor David Trebing, Ph.D., teaches a class in the School of Communication Studies.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/MEU_4264.jpg?VersionId=NwIl_AE5EX.y8s.q_5WTArgPzawQlHqO)
David Trebing, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Communication Studies, was named one of six university-wide finalists for the 2017 Outstanding Teaching Awards.
The School of Communication Studies (COMM) will offer a course called 鈥淪eminar: Vietnam: Messages from the Cultural Divide鈥 during the Spring 2018 semester.
COMM Associate Professor David Trebing, Ph.D., will teach the course for the third time, which will count as an upper鈥
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![Malia Politzer of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting talks to students in Taylor Hall about her investigative reporting.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/IMG_0680.jpg?VersionId=RmEcNv0rwK1Rkrblw3RRhyb_oX7Fgn.q)
Nearly 150 attendees packed into Rm. 226 in Taylor Hall to hear international journalist talk about her reporting of the refugee crisis in Niger, Italy, Germany and Turkey.