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2023/2024 has been a banner school year for the LIS Department/iSchool at Rutgers University’s SC&I.
2023/2024 has been a banner school year for the LIS Department/iSchool at Rutgers University’s SC&I.
Meet Benjiman Argen, one of the 1,103 Rutgers students who will graduate with a SC&I degree in 2024. As an undergraduate, Argen served as president of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter based at SC&I, and he held internships at Violet PR, Coyne PR, and the Office of Governor Phil Murphy.
Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies Khadijah Costley White has been awarded the Provost Award for Excellence in Community/Publicly Engaged Scholarship.
In an email to the Rutgers University–New Brunswick community, Chancellor of Rutgers–New Brunswick and Distinguished Professor Francine Conway and Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke, Professor and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, notified the Rutgers community that Professor of Library and Information Science Marie Radford has been awarded the Chancellor Award for Excellence in Mentoring.
David Pérez MI’26, a social worker who helps support the community through his job at the Long Branch Free Public Library, recognizes the importance of public libraries in communities and how much th
Washington, who has recently published a book on ethical data science, stresses the history of human intelligence to students of artificial intelligence.
The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center recognizes and continues the work of Timothy Thomas Fortune, an American orator, civil rights leader, journalist writer, editor, and publisher. He was the editor of the nation’s leading black newspaper The New York Age and the leading economist in the Black community.
Hailing from Drexel University, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan, the three new faculty members will join the Library and Information Science Department.
Rutgers SC&I is proud to announce that alumna Lisa Varga MLS’98 is Library Journal’s Librarian of the Year for 2024.
Projects created by seven MI students and graduates, who are recipients of the Beverly E. Schoen Research Fellowship, were presented at the New Jersey Association of School Librarians Conference in Atlantic City in December.