Alanna Doherty, a 2017 School of Communication and Information graduate, speaks on her rising Instagram presence (61,000 followers and counting) that focuses on fashion. Majoring in Journalism and Media Studies with a minor in Digital Communication, Information and Media, Alanna is successfully using the strategies she learned at SC&I which is resulting in a very impressive social media following.

Rutgers School of Communication and Information (SC&I) Master of Communication and Media student Shravan Regret Iyer was awarded a scholarship by the Smithsonian Institute to attend their conference, the "Earth Optimism Summit," in Washington, D.C. held from April 21-23, 2017. Iyers presented “Citizen Journalism and Environment Conservation.”

The Alison R. Bernstein Media Mentoring Program is currently accepting applications for the 2017-18 program year. This is an exclusive opportunity open to only Rutgers alumnae! The ARB Media Mentoring Program is nine-month mentoring program that addresses the underrepresentation of women in leadership, production, and creative roles across all media and information technology platforms. Application deadline is Monday, July 24, 2017.

Research Professor Alexa Hepburn and Associate Professor Galina Bolden have published a new book, titled “Transcribing for Social Research.” Their goal was to overview and introduce techniques that will help interactional researchers produce more accurate transcripts.

The competition was intense, but when SC&I’s Journalism and Media Studies Program (JMS) major Kayla Jackson ’17 presented at UPitchNJ, in front of competitors from 12 other New Jersey colleges and universities, she was calm and focused on doing what she’s done almost 60 times before when pitching PeduL, a start-up she founded at Rutgers with her business partner and fellow JMS major Chisa Egbelu ’16.

The School of Communication and Information (SC&I), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is proud to announce the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funding award for Phase II of the project “Interactive Technology for Media Literacy Drug Prevention in Community Groups.” Principal Investigators Michael L. Hecht, REAL Prevention, and Kathryn Greene, professor of Communication at SC&I, were awarded over $1.4 million by the National Institute of Health (NIH) for their research.

Part-Time Lecturer Jack Grasso has been rewarded by his students for his inspiring teaching and mentoring. Seven of his students nominated him as the 2017 “Career Mentor of the Year.”