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The Health Information concentration takes a socio-ecological approach to understanding health and information, focusing on how people create, locate, interpret, use, and share health information in their everyday lives and during health events. In an era where misinformation can have serious consequences, graduates will play a crucial role in promoting health literacy and fostering a better-informed society.

The grant will support the news service in its mission to collaborate with New Jersey’s colleges and universities to mentor and train promising student journalists, including Rutgers SC&I JMS students, through reporting on state government, the Legislature, and politics for local media partners across the state.

“A lot of college graduates always talk about how they hardly use the skills they learned from their college courses, where I feel like I apply the skills I learned from Rutgers every day,” Boone said.

Holloway spoke with Emanuel, Chief Washington correspondent for Fox News Channel and co-anchor of FOX News Live, during a class for his Byrne Seminar “Cultivating Citizenship to Support Democracy.”

Ahmed, a Ph.D. Candidate at SC&I and Murphy, who holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, will join the LIS faculty in fall, 2024.