Welcome back to the spring 2021 semester. As teaching starts we are, of course, disappointed that it must be delivered at a distance. We welcome your understanding of why that is. And I want to let you know, how grateful we are to have you as part of the SC&I community.
Matthew Weber, a communication scholar whose research examines media, organizational change, and communication dynamics, has rejoined SC&I as an associate professor with tenure after having served for several years as an endowed faculty member at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
Rutgers researcher explains how understanding media and advertising helps with substance abuse among adolescents.
“The beautiful thing about people is we all come from different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, and cultures. Absorbing knowledge from others is the best advice I have received as it allows me to learn and think with an open mind.”
SC&I alumna Clarissa Guzman ’20, who graduated with a degree in Information Technology and Informatics (ITI), is finding early success as she uses her knowledge to guide her interests.
SC&I alumnus Kevin Samaniego Calva ’20, who graduated with a degree in Information Technology and Informatics (ITI), is working as a software engineer and helping friends expand a nonprofit focused on environmental cleanup.
In a chapter titled “Networked Street Life,” published in the new “Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media,” Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lane addresses a new area of ethnographic field research that “links the inequality concerns of urban sociologists and digital scholars who are studying inequality, and particularly digital inequality, in urban neighborhoods.”
Alumna Barbara Burton’s new book explores Westfield’s 300-year history, including events during the American Revolutionary War, the day in 1838 when the train arrived, and the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Renowned Handbook includes a chapter by Chayko on the practice of identity, and one by Paris on information, technology, and work.
SC&I Assistant Professor Katherine Ognyanova has published new survey data from The COVID States Project, which explores the economic hardships confronting Americans.
