Welcome to the first installment of our newest feature: Why I Support SC&I. As you know, gifts to SC&I support our students, drive research discoveries, and bring ideas to life. Interestingly, there are almost as many reasons why our donors choose to support Rutgers as there are donors, and we want to share these inspirational stories with you.
One of only four Ph.D. students selected for this honor from across all of Rutgers University, the award honors Wang for her overall record as an academic, including her dissertation, publications, teaching, and other academic achievements.
SC&I faculty member Kaitlin Costello and Ph.D. student Diana Floegel have received the award for their paper examining how people diagnosed with mental health conditions feel about the mental health apps they use, and the critical privacy, ethics, and justice issues surrounding their use.
The award recognizes graduate faculty who have made significant contributions to graduate education at Rutgers University.
Rutgers iSchool faculty and students are participating in a variety of activities at ASIS&T.
The School of Communication & Information invites applications for our Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Communication, Information, and Media. The application deadline for the fall 2021 term is January 5, 2021, with late applications to be considered at a May 1, 2021 deadline. Students requesting financial aid must apply by January 5, 2021.
Selecting Wang as the recipient of this prestigious award, The National Communication Association wrote, “Given the current political and racial tensions in our country, the selection committee found this paper timely and useful as it has heuristic value for the role that social media platforms play in the political arena among racial backgrounds.”
SC&I Ph.D. student Allyson Bontempo and her co-authors conducted research showing it’s vital for gynecologic cancer patients to feel free to talk about their negative emotions if they want to. Bontempo said, “If they can’t, or even perceive that they can’t, they are going to be bottling up all of their feelings, which isn’t healthy.
Nicholas Belkin, an internationally known scholar of human-centered information retrieval, is transitioning to distinguished professor emeritus at Rutgers, and will continue his cutting-edge work at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication has named Wang the recipient of the Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award, and the International Communication Association Journalism Studies Division has awarded her an honorable mention for her dissertation in the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation in Journalism Studies Award.
