January 2020 - News Articles

The history of basketball in New York City will be told through an exhibit launching Feb. 14 at the Museum of the City of New York. The first exhibit of its kind, it was proposed and developed by Marc Aronson and Jeffrey Lane served on the advisory board.

This year the annual midwinter meeting will be held in Philadelphia, PA, and will feature a symposium on the future of libraries. Many SC&I faculty, alumni, and students will attend in order to present, participate, network, and learn.

Holloway to begin presidency on July 1 after successful tenures at Northwestern, Yale

The new specialization, launching in spring 2020, will help prepare SC&I’s Master of Communication and Media students for careers in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), sustainability, organizational purpose, and more.

SC&I faculty member Joyce Valenza describes how a visit from an author to a single location became a state-wide event.

IT & Informatics students pitched over 40 projects at the fall IT & Informatics Showcase. Two projects were named Showcase winners after being chosen as ‘Best Project’ by both the judges and the students. Four additional teams won Best Project awards for their topic areas.

With the aid and sponsorship of Rutgers, the San Diego Zoo, Microsoft, and Google, the event brought together hundreds of interested researchers to discuss the niche field of camera trap technology.

In order to benefit local low-income, promising students, Frank Kabela, ’60, who majored in journalism at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, and his wife Pat, who attended Douglass College at Rutgers, have pledged a seven-figure gift to the Rutgers Future Scholars Program.

As a new decade approaches, SC&I looks back at its most-read news articles during 2019. Profiles of faculty, alumni, and students were the best-read stories, comprising nine of the top 10 news articles.

The grants will support the work of Associate Professor Todd Wolfson, who is co-founder and co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC) and a member of the MMP's Board of Directors.

Students, faculty, and alumni arrived at the Zimmerli Art Museum to celebrate the academic achievements of SC&I students, the generosity of donors, and the many ways the students benefit by the donor’s scholarships.

SC&I's Dean for Research Mark Aakhus and Distinguished Professor of Communication Brent Ruben spoke about their international research initiatives at this event, which was hosted by Rutgers Global.

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