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IT WAS CONFUSING A TIME WHEN COVID 19 FIRST APPEARED IN THE UNITED

STATES.
COMMUNICATION GRADUATE STUDENT KAITLIN BARNETT WANTED A DEEPER
LOOK INTO THE CONFUSION, GIVING HER AND HER RESEARCH A BIG WIN.
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<KAITLIN BARNETT; COMMUNICATION GRADUATE STUDENT>
<DR. TROY COMEAU; PROGRAM DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATION>
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THE COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT AT PITT STATE IS CELEBRATING A BIG WIN.
KAITLIN BARNETT WON THE FIRST PLACE AT THE ANNUAL CAPITOL RESEARCH
SUMMIT WITH HER PRESEMTATION OF HOW PEOPLE IN THE MIDWEST RECEIVED
THE INFORMATION WHEN COVID BEGAN.
KAITLIN IS COMMUNICATION GRADUATE STUDENT AT PITT STATE AND SHE
SAYS SHE WASN’T EXPECTING SOME OF THE RESULTS SHE FOUND.
(“I think it was very interesting to see where this information was coming from. Where people
were finding their extra information and the significant differences, because I didn’t expect some
of the results that we had gotten.”)
NOW WITH A BIG WIN FOR HER AND THE COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT.
KAITLIN SAYS THAT FINDING OUT SHE WON WAS A BIG SHOCK TO HER.
(“I was shocked, I honestly was shocked. There were so many awesome submissions from PSU
students. A lot of them of them was in the Physical Sciences, which I was just blown away
reading most of them, because I was like, okay, I was very proud of this study we had done.”)
KAITLIN WASN’T THE ONLY PROUD OF HER STUDY, THE COMMUNICATION
DEPARTMENT WAS AS WELL.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR DR. TROY COMEAU SAYS THE FACULTY IS ALWAYS PROUD
OF THEIR STUDENTS, AND REALLY PROUD OF KAITLIN.
(I think as faculty, were always proud of students. I mean that’s reason were here. You know
faculty want to see students succeed, it’s what drives me every day. So, to hear that a student,
you know wins a state wide award, like that competing against some good competition, I was
really proud of her.”)
KAITLIN WASN’T THE ONLY PITT STATE STUDENT TO WALK AWAY A WINNER.
THE JUDGES ALSO PICK TWO OTHER PITT STATE FOR TOP AWARDS.
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