Innovative
Media Center for the Future Houses Communication
Research Laboratory
Visit
the lower level of the Grehan Building and
you can check out the recently expanded
Media Center for the Future, which offers
resources for both students and faculty
members. Operated by the College
of Communications and Information Studies,
the Media Center provides facilities for
research as well as instruction and media
production. The Center is equipped with
state-of-the-art technology and is designed
to be a "changeable and adaptable"
multipurpose facility.
The
facility houses the Multimedia Communication
Research Laboratory where faculty and graduate
students produce and test media-based messages.
The lab includes a 20-seat theater, wired
to collect heart rate, electromyographic
response, and skin conductance response
from research subjects as well as a focus
group room equipped for recording discussions
and interviews. Other parts of the Media
Center include an audio recording studio,
digital content analysis lab, several video editing suites, a media production
room, and two classroom computer labs.
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rated
the Department as the most highly funded
Communication program in the country, with
more than $35 million dollars of extramural
funding secured in the past 15 years. While
most of this grant-funded research is focused
on health-related communication, a variety
of other areas draw the attention of our
faculty, including studies of interpersonal
and small group communication in organizational,
instructional and computer-mediated contexts.
