October 2018 - News Articles

SC&I faculty, students and staff will attend this year’s NCA Convention to participate in various presentations, panels, and division meetings. This year’s convention theme is “Communication at Play.”

The 43 teams who entered the race donated a total of 11,000 supplies including pens, post-it notes, and notebooks to local New Brunswick schools.

SC&I recently held a reception at Zimmerlie Art Musuem honoring scholarship recipients and donors, and celebrated the many opportunities brought about by the generosity of others.

Held from Friday, October 12 - Sunday, October 14, 2018, the OCMC highlighted the research of doctoral students on the job market with 18 public presentations.

Master of Communication and Media (MCM) alumna Maggie Luo '04, Associate Director of Communications and Technology for the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Mental Illness (NAMI NJ), is collaborating with the undergraduate students in Professor Itzhak Yanovitzky's Persuasion class to develop a persuasive communication strategy to build NAMI NJ's future volunteer base.

Master of Communication and Media (MCM) graduate Jenn Attridge Schacht’s ’18 pursuit of her passion for social responsibility led to a top career at Johnson & Johnson.

Matsaganis hopes the research he conducted as a Fulbright Scholar in Athens will result in better health communication campaigns and interventions in Greece.

Rutgers faculty, students, and alumni were well-represented at the 2018 Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC).

Master of Communication and Media (MCM) graduate Colin DeVries ’18 shares how the graduate program enhanced his skills and equipped him for future advancement in his position at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn.

Master of Information alumni Liz Boccolini ’18 discusses how the Master of Information (MI) program specifically prepared her for the data science field and her current role as consultant.

School of Communication and Information (SC&) alum Jorge Estevez JMS/COM ’97 discusses his extensive career in journalism from News 12 the Bronx to WFTV in Orlando.

SC&I's Joyce Valenza is collaborating with NJASL to host the third annual School Library Bus Tour, which will include stops at 11 school libraries across New Jersey.

Mazzella, who majored in Journalism and Media Studies at SC&I, takes the reader on a riveting journey of the events surrounding Superstorm Sandy, from its initial formation out at sea to its devastating and continuous impacts.

Melanie Mostrowski '17 is an Associate Account Manager at Alligent Group/Pharma Group and was previously employed as a Marketing Coordinator for the Rutgers Pharmaceutical Industry Fellowship Program

Bindi Saikia '17 tells us about her time at SC&I and what she feels are the top 3 benefits of the MCM program.

Dana Shang is an alumna of the MCM program, specializing in Communication and Media Studies.

Brent Ruben, Ralph Gigliotti, and Christine Goldthwaite worked in collaboration with senior leaders and faculty from RBHS to develop ALP-RBHS, a program designed to provide academic health leaders from across the university with an integrated orientation to leadership, managerial, and organizational concepts and competencies.

Rutgers alumnus Ron Reisman ’71 talks about his career path beginning in radio journalism leading to his current position as Solar Ombudsman at Sustainable CUNY.

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science Kaitlin Costello's research proposal was awarded for its potential significance to information science research.

The Douglas N. Woodson Sr. Endowed Scholarship empowers Master of Information students. With the first scholarship awards to be made in 2019, Brown-Woodson, who completed her doctorate at Rutgers, is happy to pay it forward. “With financial help, maybe students won’t have to work full time, and they can finish their degrees in a shorter amount of time,” she says. “That’s my intent—to give back and empower others.” 

Deborah Blackwell is a member of the Ocean County New Jersey's Library Management Team and currently serves as the library's Training Officer. Blackwell believes in the power of the public library to serve as a vital resource in being an "equalizer for all" community members. Please join us for this special event.