“Leadership matters,” said Ralph Gigliotti, one of the study's lead authors and an affiliate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. “Leaders play a critical role in the enthusiasm level of working group members and influence their interest in wanting to continue with a project of this kind.”
A new Rutgers study shows that breast cancer patients who experience anxiety prior to oncology appointments communicate differently and may require additional support from their clinical teams to optimize their treatment and post-treatment outcomes.
A new Rutgers study examining the ways Americans speak about pregnancy has found the dominant narratives in our culture marginalize many people experiencing pregnancy.
The highly competitive award will support the final two years of Broadbridge’s doctoral research examining the impact of cancer genetic counseling communication on patient outcomes. The transition grant will also support four additional years of her post-doctoral research.
Ph.D. student Kaitlin Montague developed a new term, “mobile access instability,” to describe how mobility is a significant component in the creation and resolution of access instability for people who live in their vehicles.
Youth ages 13-16 are leveraging social media features to find moments of intentional pause during prolonged use.
Park said the aim of her dissertation work was to find ways to reduce online incivility while maintaining the anonymity of online platforms to promote robust exercise in free speech.
SC&I researchers presented posters focused on survivor-parent communication during survivorship care and another study examining the role of support people in prostate cancer patient-oncologist communication.
2023/2024 has been a banner school year for the LIS Department/iSchool at Rutgers University’s SC&I.
The Rutgers School of Graduate Studies is awarding the Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award to Rutgers School of Communication and Information (SC&I) Professor of Communication Jennifer Theiss. Theiss studies interpersonal communication in romantic relationships, marriages, and families, and has been at SC&I since 2006.
