Student Opportunities

Common Ground

Media School graduate students host an annual campuswide conference on the study of media. Student researchers participate in panel presentations and workshops.

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Graduate student publications

Media School graduate students are involved in multiple fields of study. Some of their recent publications include the following: 

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Research groups

These groups give faculty and students with common interests a chance to collaborate, share ideas, and expand their research.

  • The Strategic Communication Research Lab is a Media School research group that supports faculty and graduate students in the pursuit and publication of research in strategic communication. Relevant fields include advertising, marketing, advocacy, development communication, communication management, and public relations.
  • IU Games Community is a collaborative, interdisciplinary network and information resource for scholars, critics, players, and makers to support the study of games while contributing to the robust community of games interest on campus and beyond.

12student-authored papers presented at the 2023 International Communication Association conference

7student-authored papers presented at the 2023 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference

10students shared their research at the 2023 Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Nominated by faculty, undergraduate students are invited to share their research and be recognized for their outstanding scholarship. The event gives nominees the opportunity to share their work with The Media School community via poster presentations in a formal setting.

See the spring 2023 presentations

Student work

This is Your Brain on Media

Lexy Hatch, Paige DeFord, Xia Zheng, Esther Faniyan, and Jackson Naylor

Students in an Intensive Freshman Seminar class conducted a physiology study on how the rate of music affects ECG and skin conductance.

Watch the student experiment

Participate in The Media School C101 subject pool

The MSCH-C101 subject pool introduces undergraduates to the process of media research and provides subjects for Media School researchers.

Get involved in your professors' research

Contact your professors to see how you can become involved in their research.

Contribute to the IU Journal of Undergraduate Research

Published annually, the IUJUR is an entirely student-led organization dedicated to promoting a culture of curiosity all around IU.