February 2024 - News Articles

Assistant Dean for Programs and Assessment Sharon Stoerger discusses educational uses of AI, how it is transforming student assessment, approaches educators are taking to prepare students for STEM careers, and ways institutions are embracing this new technology.

A new study by Professor of Journalism and Media Studies Lauren Feldman et al. indicates that vivid images of climate change-related flooding in news reporting can increase public engagement with climate change, whereas news stories that highlight political divides about the link between flooding and climate change can lower public engagement.

One of the highlights of the #BeCOMM campaign will be the COMMchella Music Festival which will take place on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at The Yard on the Rutgers College Avenue campus from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. The event will showcase six popular music acts including several that feature current Rutgers communication majors. COMMchella is free for all attendees, including Rutgers University students, faculty, and staff.

Lee, a faculty member at Korea University, is an expert in mediated communication and organizational communication network research.

Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation will develop a clearinghouse of the latest innovations in bridge safety that incorporates artificial intelligence technology.

A new study by Rutgers SC&I Associate Professor Caitlin Petre and Ph.D. Candidate Nicole Weber explores how understanding the evolution of book sellers, supermarkets, and public libraries as purveyors of public information can help inform current thinking about social media platforms.

When he graduates with a Master of Communication and Media, Wasilewski will have earned his third Rutgers degree. He said the MCM courses he has enjoyed the most are PR History with Assistant Professor Mark Beal, Digital Media Research with Associate Professor Caitlin Petre, Media Law with Associate Dean for Programs and Professor Susan Keith, and Digital Media Production with Assistant Professor of Professional Practice Neal Bennett.

A new study by Assistant Professor Sarah Shugars explores how the misgendering of online users in scholarly work can have significant down-stream impacts on questions of online gender disparities. For example, across their analyses Shugars et al. found that nonbinary users and others – both cisgender and transgender – who don’t perform their gender in a cis-normative way are systematically undercounted and frequently misgendered.

Hailing from Drexel University, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan, the three new faculty members will join the Library and Information Science Department.

SC&I Professor of Communication Jennifer A. Theiss has been awarded the 2023  Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship or Distinguished Service in Family Communication from the National Communication Association (NCA).

Rutgers SC&I is proud to announce that alumna Lisa Varga MLS’98 is Library Journal’s Librarian of the Year for 2024.