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         OU Professor of Health Communication is keynote speaker at Celebration of Scholarship at Shawnee State University

            Dr. Lynn Harter, professor of Health Communication at Ohio University and author, was a keynote speaker at Shawnee State University on Friday, April 10 at the Celebration of Scholarship event. Harter explored how art’s storytelling capacity can be harnessed to renew and reconstruct community life by drawing on her ethnographic study of Passion Works, a collaborative art studio housed within a sheltered workshop serving individuals with developmental disabilities.