Communication professor and department chair James E. Katz was named by the Rutgers Board as Board of Governors Professor of Communication.

Well-known scholar and teacher of library and information science Tefko Saracevic donates $100,000 to support top doctoral students.

Recognizing that the future technical and information technology workforce increasingly needs to be prepared for a data-driven work environment, Yahoo! is enabling students and faculty at Rutgers to learn how to analyze huge data sets and advance research on such platforms.

"It's basically every science fiction movie you've ever seen," says SC&I's Aram Sinnreich, assistant professor of journalism and media studies, of the iPhone 4S personal assistant Siri.