September 2022 - News Articles

Maher is now working as a Human Resources coordinator at NBC, a company she’d long dreamed to work for.

As a rising senior majoring in Information Technology and Informatics, Ampadu-Nyarkoh said, “Learning how humans interact with technology has resonated with me more than just sitting at a screen and coding, because being in ITI has enabled me to focus on very interesting projects that relate to human beings.”

For Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, we asked members of the Rutgers faculty to share reflections on their identities, the complexities of the diaspora and some of the most pressing issues facing those within it.

Their talk covered the media’s complicated role, modern feminism, cultural shifts and radical change following major U.S. Supreme Court decisions including the recent ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.

One of three witnesses to present evidence, Aronczyk said she drew on research from her recent book, “A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism.”

Cassidy Duhigg MCM’22, COM’21 transferred to Rutgers her sophomore year, excited because, as she said, “from the 120+ undergrad majors to the dozens of engaging student clubs, Rutgers truly had everything I wanted.” What she wasn’t sure of, however, was her major.

Zhang had once considered majoring in Computer Science, but she chose Information Technology and Informatics because she “really wanted to work with people rather than doing development work.” Read about why she chose to major in ITI, how the knowledge she’s gained has benefitted her work at many internships and jobs, and her plans this fall.

A new study reveals neither host country fully utilized virtual reality to promote the games and promote national branding and adds to the theoretical discussions on the role VR plays in sports journalism and sports public relations and provides practical recommendations on the use of virtual reality during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ashante Patterson MCM’20, SAS’18, a communications and marketing manager with the Mount Sinai Health System, is intent on raising awareness of health awareness that affects communities of color.

For forty years, SC&I has sought to understand communication, information, and media processes, organizations, and technologies as they affect individuals, societies, and the relationships among them.

Both undergraduate and graduate students expanded their academic knowledge, field experience, and understanding of European cultures this past spring and summer by taking study abroad classes taught by SC&I faculty through Rutgers Global.

Associate Professor Charles Senteio is co-leading a study aiming to evaluate the effectiveness of social media ads promoting health information that are created by members of the communities they are targeting with the messaging, compared with ads created by government and health organizations.

They are working for Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, NJ.com-The Star-Ledger, NBC Entertainment, NBC Universal, and Terracycle. A few of SC&I’s former news writing interns reflect upon the ways their internship is tied to their professional success.

The MHCI program focuses on the communication, information, and media aspects of health-related policies and practices, and Rupa finds herself drawn to research and interpersonal health communication.

Julia Wiacek is a graduate student in SC&I's Master of Health Communication and Information (MHCI) program who identifies as a Jersey girl with strong Polish roots who loves period dramas.

The SC&I-based HCI Lab studies human behaviors, creates new computing technologies, and evaluates the use of new systems in real world settings to address critical issues relating to healthcare, everyday wellbeing, and environmental sustainability.