March 2022 - News Articles

Cathy Pedrayes MCM’22, lifestyle expert and TikTok Mom Friend with over 2.3 million followers, has had quite an eventful year, and it’s only March.

The campaign will feature COMMchella, a music festival at The Yard on April 27, showcasing music acts led by Rutgers communication majors, past and present.

Award-winning alumna and school librarian Martha Hickson MLIS’05 RC’82, who was targeted during a book-banning protest held by a group of North Hunterdon High School parents last fall, discusses the insights she gained during the experience, the power of books, those who suffer the most from censorship, and the reasons she still loves her job.

Neal Bennett Ed.M.’19, assistant professor of professional practice, Journalism and Media Studies, is a Telly Award-winning video producer, editor, and director.

Qatar is the first Arab nation to host the World Cup, and the country is taking the opportunity to promote not only the prestigious worldwide event, but also their national brand. A study of the ways they are using Experiential Media to tell these promotional stories provides a living laboratory for SC&I scholars exploring EM.

Ammari, an assistant professor of Library and Information Science, received the award for “his outstanding and vibrant contributions to this field.” The awarding organization, AMiner Scholar, wrote, “The 2022 winners are among the most-impactful scholars from the top venues of their respective subject fields between 2012 and 2021.”

Scholars will present leading-edge communication research during the 26th Annual New Jersey Communication Association (NJCA) Conference on March 26, 2022.

“We're all on different paths so don't look at what others are doing - just try to focus on you,” Ogalo said.

If you are a current or former communications college student, you have likely written your share of bibliographies -  the lists of works you referred to in a paper. The next step in the capstone process is the completion of an Annotated Bibliography, which goes beyond its simpler counterpart to incorporate details about each of the entries listed.

In 1987, March became known and celebrated as Women’s History Month in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, as “an annual recognition of the historical and modern accomplishments and perseverance of women across the globe –financially, socially, and politically,” according to Wikipedia.

“Sympathy Sockpuppets,” members of online communities who employ deceptive personas to gain sympathy and care from other members, can have a devastating impact on the groups they infiltrate, according to new research by Assistant Professor Kaitlin Costello.

Associate Professor Lisa Mikesell, an expert on patient-provider communication and relationships, presented her expertise in a training webinar created by The Rutgers Global Tuberculosis Institute that was used by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Sarah Watson MI’21 has had an unusual career journey. She began volunteering in the library there and had what she refers to as a career epiphany.

Two years after the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, a case study examines the successful response and leadership role of the university related to vaccination and the safety of faculty, staff and students.

During the capstone process, you are busy doing a ton of academic reading to become a subject matter expert on your topic. But it takes more than just a random collection of data to put together a well-structured, compelling capstone. By having you put together an outline early in the process, it will instill within you a feel for how the various pieces fit together.