April 2019 - News Articles

Warren Allen, E.E. Lawrence, Britt Paris and Gretchen Stahlman will join the faculty in SC&I’s Department of Library and Information Science (LIS) in September, 2019.

The SC&I scholarly incubator is held annually to provide SC&I faculty with the time and space to gather together to ponder and discuss issues related to their scholarship, teaching, and ways of being in the academia. This year, the faculty discussed ethics.

SC&I’s Dafna Lemish and her co-author Colleen Russo Johnson from Ryerson University, who found systematic gender inequality in both the television programming children watch, and behind the scenes in the male-dominated television industry as well, call attention to the children’s TV industry and encourage change.

Award winner Mary Chayko, Teaching Professor of Communication and Information, was nominated by SC&I’s Associate Dean for Programs Dafna Lemish and selected by Rutgers as a recipient of this prestigious award

Faculty members Sunyoung Kim, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and Charles Senteio have passed their third-year review and have been reappointed on their tenure path, while Nikolaus Linardopoulos has been named Associate Teaching Professor.

Silent books are picture books for children that do not include words, so no language barriers impede understanding. During the month of May 2019 The Alexander Library will host the most recent collection of silent books. SC&I’s professor Marc Aronson will speak at the launch of the month-long event on May 2, 2019.

One year after graduation, Kim Hoyos JMS ’18, talks about her work as Digital Strategy Coordinator at MTV and her continuing accomplishments in filmmaking.

The aim of the MIC Center, which is a collaboration between SC&I and the Annenberg School for Journalism at the University of Pennsylvania, is to bridge some of these divides, bringing together the thought leadership advanced through academia and the activists who work tirelessly on social issues.

The Intercept, together with U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein (“The Shock Doctrine”) are proud to present “A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” a 7-minute animated film featuring art by award-winning illustrator Molly Crabapple (“Brothers of the Gun”), co-written by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Avi Lewis (“This Changes Everything”) and co-directed by Kim Boekbinder and Jim Batt. The film is narrated by Ocasio-Cortez.

JMS rising junior and Cape May native Sarah Doherty steps into the presidency of the Rutgers chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in fall 2019, with plans to lead fellow students to the national conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Kayla Jennings-Rivera to Receive a Scholarship for her Excellence in Communications.

From access to camera equipment through RUtv, to his favorite courses, to his Viacom internship at MTV, to screening two of his films at Cannes, in part two of our conversation with Morrison, he explains how he made the most of his time on the banks – and how it led directly to his MFA at Columbia and his success as a filmmaker.

Mark Aakhus, Sunyoung Kim, and Lisa Mikesell are collaborating with the Hematologic Malignancies Program at RCINJ to help design a patient support system to help physicians communicate with cancer patients about the risks involved in using Bone Marrow Transplant as an alternative to chemotherapy.

On April 9, 2019 SC&I faculty members Galina Bolden, Marija Dalbello, and Lisa Mikesell were informed by the Rutgers Board of Governors that their promotions were approved.

Associate Dean and Professor Dafna Lemish has recently published with colleagues “Fear in Front of The Screen.” Based on two research studies, the book focuses on the impact scary television content can have on children’s fears, nightmares, and development.

The grant, from the William T. Grant Foundation, will support Yanovitzky’s collaborative project intended to stimulate greater engagement of policymakers in New Jersey and beyond with research that can support sound policies that will increase access to depression screening for all adolescents and connect them with adequate treatment as necessary.

Veteran marketer and public relations practitioner, author, keynote speaker and SC&I alumnus, Mark Beal, is returning to SC&I to teach exactly 30 years after he graduated in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and media studies.

SC&I's career services provides the necessary industry connections for students. Both employees and students were excited for the 4th annual event.

Through the Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership, SC&I’s Distinguished Professor Brent Ruben and alumni Ralph Gigliotti ’17, Christine Goldthwaite ‘10, ’18, and Kate Immordino, are assisting leaders from Botswana in their mission to transform their country’s public service model and enhance their leadership capabilities.

The trip was funded by the SC&I deans’ Course Enrichment Fund.