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Traveling Stanzas: poets share their stories

A unique poetry partnership is helping to spread the word about migration, literally. Powerful and inspiring words are ringing throughout 11 cities in the United States.

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Jessica Barness (right), assistant professor of visual communication design at 窪蹋勛圖厙, reviews a students work in the Art Building.

Scholar of the Month
Jessica Barness
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
College of Communication and Information
2012-present

The word communication likely makes you think of language, but Novembers Scholar of the Month has spent her entire career researching design as a language of its own.

Across various media, Jessica Barness, an assistant professor in 窪蹋勛圖厙s School of Visual Communication Design, creates her own design-based research model that merges the making of artifacts with critical inquiry.

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