Former Ph.D. Director and Professor Marie L. Radford has officially transitioned Associate Professor Jennifer Theiss into her new position, effective July 1st.

Assistant Teaching Professor Anselm Spoerri won a Professional and Scholarly Excellence Award for DataVis, an educational product he helped create.

Rutgers School of Communication and Information Assistant Professor Charles Senteio is mentoring Daouda Gueye, a Mandela Washington Fellow, for the summer. Gueye is a health researcher from Senegal, Africa.

Students in a Journalism and Media Studies (JMS) class toured Guatemala for 10 days to study the role of media in the country’s historic and contemporary struggles for democracy.

Rebecca Reynolds was promoted to Associate Professor of Library and Information Science with tenure, and Matthew Weber was promoted to Associate Professor of Communication with tenure.

Associate Professor Chirag Shah won the Chancellor’s Scholar Award for his outstanding work as a scholar and professor.

Teaching Professor and Director of the Master of Communication and Media Program Richard Dool and Program Assistant and Ph.D. student Deborah Yoon attended PRSA NJ’s 28th Annual Pyramid Award Banquet, representing SC&I. SC&I was an event sponsor.

SC&I’s Danielle Raabe ’17, a communication major, was awarded the Spirit of Rutgers Award at the Chancellor’s Student Leadership Gala. Next fall, she will use her leadership skills as a Master of Communication and Media student at SC&I, under the Strategic Organizational Communication track.

The New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) has named Rutgers School of Communication and Information (SC&I)'s Part-Time Lecturer Leslie Burger the 2017 Librarian of the Year award for her dedication and contributions to libraries. Burger was formerly the Executive Director of the Princeton Public Library, heading the effort to transform it into the busiest library in New Jersey.

Five SC&I Ph.D. Alumni are published in the July edition of The Library Quarterly