SC&I alumna Vanessa Kitzie MLIS '11, Ph.D. '16, has researched the information practices of LGBTQIA+ populations, particularly the kinds of health questions community members have and the ways they navigate around information barriers to find answers. Read more in an article by the University of South Carolina where KItzie is an assistant professor.
Research by Professor Marie Radford and SC&I Ph.D. students Laura Costello and Kaitlin Montague examines the ways academic libraries provided critical virtual reference services and support during the pandemic, adapting quickly to the fully online environment.
The SC&I Alumni Association featured Banerjee in a virtual conversation about her career as a leading cancer researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Banerjee’s research emphasizes the role of communication between healthcare providers and patients. She also specializes in message framing for cancer risk prevention.
SC&I would like you to meet a remarkable woman: Ina Brown-Woodson, Ph.D.
Awarded by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars based in Princeton, N.J., the prestigious fellowship provides recipients with $25,000 to support their final year of dissertation research.
The iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award Chairs wrote, in praise of Ghosh’s dissertation, “the thesis combines the use of developing methods, an emerging technology, and is also true to ‘the best traditions of our field.’”
Faculty, students, and alumni from SC&I’s Communication Department will attend the Eastern Communication Association’s 112th annual conference. The virtual event is being held from March 24–March 28.
Alumna Barbara Burton’s new book explores Westfield’s 300-year history, including events during the American Revolutionary War, the day in 1838 when the train arrived, and the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Cheryl Klimaszewski, Ph.D ’20 was awarded second place in the Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition at ALISE for her dissertation research that combined aspects of autoethnography and visual data combined with textual and visual analysis to understand these homegrown, grassroots Romanian museums.
A photograph capturing a dramatic weather event in Morondava in Madagascar, Africa, taken by SC&I Communication, Information, and Media
