Three 网曝吃瓜 (KSU) students swept the poster category competition during the inaugural Mid-Southern Interdisciplinary Sciences Association (MISA) conference in Franklin, Tennessee.
鈥淲inning all categories is no easy feat,鈥� Dr. Debbie Thomas, provost and vice president for academic affairs at KSU, said. 鈥淚 commend the students on their excellent work and faculty for their leadership.鈥�
Graduate students Dennis Hall and Eric Mason won first place for their poster titled 鈥淢edia Imagery and Social Media: Desensitization and Selective Consumption of Social Media Violence.鈥� Undergraduate student Kelvin Brooks earned second place for his poster titled 鈥淏lack Lives Matter and the Cycle of Oppression.鈥� Instructor Lana (Marlene) Browning was awarded third place for her poster titled 鈥淐itizen Journalism and Public Cynicism toward Police in the United States.鈥�
鈥淎s always, our students represented KSU and the Bluegrass State Intelligence Consortium well,鈥� Dr. Mara Merlino, associate professor of psychology and sociology at KSU, said. 鈥淥ur group represented a substantial portion of the event program, at which we presented three hour-long panels, a grad student paper by Kessiah Cunningham, and a total of 11 student posters.鈥�