Best Wishes to the Class of 2021! |
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There is an unusual smell in the air—optimism! Blossoms and new leaves are out along College Avenue. There are more students and staff around. Many people are now vaccinated, and Rutgers itself is becoming a vaccination center. The effectiveness and safety of the new set of vaccines is a wonderful testimony to medical science. As the semester comes to an end, SC&I faculty and staff can be pleased by how well they have performed through the pandemic, sustaining their research and high-quality teaching delivery.
At SC&I Honor’s Day, I was delighted to give the Staff Service Excellence Award. Through the crisis year, SC&I’s staff have continued to serve faculty, students, and other staff in every way they could, employing a wide variety of technologies so that everyone can get the service and help they need. At the center of this success has been the Information Technology Services staff of John Bowen, Jon Oliver, Elias Tsang, Michael Souren, and George Yu.
During the virtual ceremony, I offered these remarks on the IT staff: Over the years, they planned for the challenges of business continuity during emergencies. So when one came, SC&I was in an incredibly advantageous position compared to many others at Rutgers. As the emergency unfolded, they worked with faculty to consider how to support classes that had been in the labs, they worked with hundreds of faculty, staff, and students to talk about how to get set up from home, and they immediately created backpacks of computers and accessories to lend to students and staff who were just not equipped to handle the emergency on their own. ITS is just one of several staff teams that have performed outstandingly over the last year.
We are now looking forward to celebrating another graduating class and hoping that this is the last fully virtual semester of teaching that we deliver. Although we have sustained teaching quality and have produced a prodigious amount of leading-edge research, faculty are itching to return to face-to-face teaching, to get out to conferences where they can network and plan research, and just hang out as a community. Frustratingly, planning for the fall is still hampered by uncertainty over distancing regulations and the availability of rooms. But we will offer significant face-to-face delivery as part of a much more rounded campus experience.
Looking forward to seeing you all in the fall.
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Yoni Rivera Testifies to U.S. Senate on Impact of Misinformation on Coronoavirus Vaccine Hesitancy.
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Rutgers Board of Governors Announces the Promotion of Four SC&I Faculty Members.
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"Bathtub Madonnas" Reveal the Dynamics of Urbanization, Modernity, and Italian Migrant Experiences in the U.S.
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U.S. News and World Report Ranks SC&I's Master of Information Program Sixth in the Nation.
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Mark Beal’s new research found that 86% of Gen Zers conduct research on a brand before purchasing a product to learn if the brand is purposeful and contributes to a better society.
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Jack Bratich promoted to full Professor of Journalism and Media Studies as of July 1, 2021.
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Kay Ann Cassell published a new book, "Public Libraries and Their Communities: An Introduction.”
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Mary Chayko, Ph.D. student Veronica Armour, Rutgers Associate Vice President for Research and Experiential Education Sunita Kramer, and RWJ-Barnabus surgeon Advaith Bongu presented “The Living Donor Design Lab: Collaboration, Innovation, and Social Change" at the Rutgers Online Learning Conference.
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MI student Will Jones's work, “’ What in the World is Equal to It?’: An Annotated Bibliography on the Early Days of the Whaling Industry,” was awarded best government documents paper by the Documents Association of New Jersey.
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Naomi Klein’s new book, “How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other,” is a young readers’ guide to understanding and battling climate change.
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Chenjerai Kumanyika’s article, “‘One Cop Almost Down…A Million More Cops…To Go’: Rutgers Prof’s Hopes for the Future,” was published in The Daily Wire.
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A refereed article by Dafna Lemish and Nelly Elias, “Parents’ social uses of mobile phones: The case of eateries in two national contexts,” was published in International Journal of Communication, 15.
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Prominent urban ethnographer Jeffrey Lane promoted to Associate Professor of Communication as of July 1, 2021.
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David A. Love contributed a chapter about the Royal African Company, a British-owned slave-trading company, to the new book, “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019."
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Network science researcher Katherine Ognyanova promoted to Associate Professor of Communication as of July 1, 2021.
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Rutgers Today and other publications reported on the findings of a new survey by Katherine Ognyanova and fellow researchers with The COVID States Project that New Jerseyans are relaxing social distancing measures.
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An article by Britt Paris, Rebecca Reynolds, and Catherine McGowan, “Platforms Like Canvas Play Fast and Loose With Students’ Data,” was published in The Nation.
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Jorge Reina Schement’s opinion piece, “Could Donald Trump become an American folk hero? He's got what it takes: True believers.,” was published in USA Today.
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An article about Charles Senteio’s research appeared in MIT News: “Why We Need a More Precise Understanding of Vaccine Hesitation.”
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Spring Scholarship Incubator explored engaged scholarship at SC&I.
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Megan Threats was the lead author of the article, “A Review of Recent HIV Prevention Interventions and Future Considerations for Nursing Science,” published in the Journal of the Association of Nurses in Aids Care.
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Media and politics scholar Khadijah Costley White promoted to Associate Professor as of July 1, 2021.
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Read more faculty publications here.
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Mark Beal launched a YouTube series titled, “Mark Beal Gen Z: From A to Z.”
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Jack Bratich was featured in a Newsy segment, “Hollywood QAnon Portrayals Are Funny—But Also Dangerous.”
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Mary Chayko joined SiriusXM FC host Glenn Crooks in conversation with author Larry Olmstead in an “On Frame” podcast about Olmsted’s new book, “Fans: How Watching Sports Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Understanding.”
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Robert R. Comstock, former JMS faculty member, longtime New Jersey journalist, and former editor of The Record, died on February 25, 2021.
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The Digital Asset Management Certificate Program added three new courses as of April 2021: Rights for DAM, DAM for GLAM, and Technical Considerations for Content Ecosystems.
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Erin Christie was asked to join the BrightTALK channel to deliver on-demand programming for other industry professionals.
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Kevin Ewell and Rebecca Reynolds were recognized for their work and dedication by Chancellor Christopher Molloy in his February 26, 2021, message, “Cultivating Community and True Belonging.”
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David Greenberg was named a 2021-2022 Cullman Fellow by the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
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JMS students were among the WRSU Rutgers Radio staff that won three awards at the 81st Annual Intercollegiate Broadcasting System Awards.
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Chenjerai Kumanyika nominated for a third Peabody Award.
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MI student proposes "Capturing Feathers": A Novel Online Exhibition of Princeton's Rare Bird Images.
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Jon Oliver, currently the chair of Rutgers University’s Senate, was re-elected to this position through June 2022. Richard Dool will serve as a faculty senator and MI student Heidi Warde will serve as a student senator.
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SC&I hosted the virtual 24/25th Annual New Jersey Communication Association Conference on March 20, 2021. The event was organized by Richard Dool, Juan D. González delivered the keynote address, and more than 52 scholars presented their communication research.
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SC&I faculty, alumni, and students participated in the D.C. Health Communication Conference, “Promoting Equity in Health Communication Research,” held virtually April 22-24, 2021.
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Joyce Valenza worked with LIS students and alumni to launch SchoolLibraryNJ, a website hosting a variety of LibGuides for students, parents, educators, administrators, and librarians to access critical resources for bridging information equity gaps.
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Khadijah White joined District Attorney of Philadelphia Larry Krasner and Chris Jackson, publisher, and editor-in-chief, One World, in a conversation, “For the People: A Story of Justice and Power.”
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Women in ITI receive the Revolutionary Award.
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Todd Wolfson joined Neil Kraus, Ph.D., chair of political science at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, for a virtual teach-in at Ithaca College about neoliberalism, austerity, and inequality in higher education.
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SC&I celebrates Honors Day 2021.
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SC&I and Rutgers Libraries hosted a virtual launch of the International Youth Literature Collection housed in Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Alexander Library and the online LibGuide to International Youth Literature created by Doris Gabel and two MI students, Kelsey Comerford and Mackenzie Dunbar.
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Students in the Digital Communication, Information, and Media program shared their capstone research projects in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Student Exhibits.
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Doug Baldwin ’99, MLIS ‘07 was named New Jersey Library Association’s Librarian of the Year.
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SC&I Alumni Association held its annual distinguished alumni event featuring Smita Banerjee, Ph.D. '05. View the video here.
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Kelsey Buckholtz MCM ’14 published her first book, “Strong, Calm, Confident You”; the book shows women of all ages how to “learn to love themselves again and start living a more authentic, happy life.”
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Brian Deakyne JMS ’14, Brian Fonseca JMS ’18, and Patrick Lanni JMS ’13, all sports reporters at NJ Advance Media, earned awards in the 2020 New Jersey Press Association Better Newspaper Contest.
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Kiara Dunston MCM '20 uses her communication skills to serve others and make an impact.
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Mike Emanuel RC ’90 was promoted to chief Washington correspondent at Fox News Media.
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A paper by James Hodges, Ph.D. ’20, “Taxonomizing Conspiratorial Information Practices: Examining the Ong’s Hat Legend,” was accepted for presentation at the Society for the Social Studies of Science.
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Shakira M. Johnson ’02, MCIS ’04 and Tianna Bradford ’20, MCM ’21 discussed career tips as part of Virtual Rutgers Day on April 24, 2021.
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Natalie Morales JMS ’94 the new correspondent of Dateline and the West Coast anchor of Today, was interviewed by US Weekly.
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Jacqueline Pereda JMS’08 has a comedy pilot/short, “Generation por qué?,” that debuted May 1 on HBO Max and HBO Latino and is streaming now.
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Greg Tufaro JMS '98 was named Senator J. Diegnan Jr.'s Chief of Staff.
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Laura Wootton JMS ’07 published “The Sun is Shining,” a children’s book with inspiring messages and illustrations that is meant for all ages.
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