College of Communication Arts and Sciences

Centers and Labs

The collaborative labs and learning spaces in our college allow us to produce groundbreaking research, help our community and teach the next generation of communicators. Innovative journalism and multimedia experiences are at the heart of what we do.

Centers and Labs

Labs and centers focused on journalism, social media, game development and design, augmented and virtual reality and communicative sciences.

The Center for Avatar Research and Immersive Social Media Applications (CARISMA)

Communicative Sciences and Disorders (CSD) Labs

Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL) Lab

Health and Risk Communication (HRC) Center

The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism

Media and Advertising Psychology (MAP) Lab

NextGen Media Innovation Lab

The Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law

The Theoretical and Applied Research on Media Affect and Cognition (TARMAC) Lab

Interdisciplinary Laboratory for research on Cognition, Attitudes, and the Study of Emotion (CASE Lab)

The Social Media and Neuroscience (SMN) Lab

The Voice Biomechanics and Acoustics Laboratory (V-BAL)

Featured Research

Aladé awarded NSF funding to research engagement in STEM media

Fashina Aladé receives National Science Foundation grant to fund her latest research project focusing on how children understand racial diversity cues in STEM-focused educational television programs.

Combating information threats in local communities: NSF Grant awarded to Kjerstin Thorson and colleagues

MSU research: Disconnection, not teens’ screen time, is the problem

NCA 108th Annual Convention lineup for ComArtSci researchers

2022 CSCW Conference Faculty and Student Presenters from ComArtSci

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Spartan Newsroom and Immersive Media Center

Offering the latest in motion capture and learning technologies for classroom collaboration, production and immersion, the college's new Spartan Newsroom and Immersive Media Studio invite students to collaborate, gain real-life experiences and build professional skills.

The innovative, cross-functional spaces equip students for 21st century jobs by engaging them in the development and delivery of news, animation, game design and immersive interactive media content involving motion capture, augmented and virtual realities.

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