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Roy Woods Jr. MCM'21 recently accepted a new position as the Director of Communications at Springpoint, one of the Mid-Atlantic's largest nonprofit providers of residential and home-based services and programs for seniors. He credits the Master of Communication and Media program for preparing him to be in a leadership position and providing an excellent platform for developing his communications skills.

SC&I faculty and students are attending and presenting research at the 105th Annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference from August 3–6 in Detroit, Michigan.

Published just in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first secular celebrations of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in the United States, the new edition documents how the celebration has evolved since it was first observed in the US in the fall of 1972, paying particular attention to how Hollywood films, video games, YouTube and other forms of media have made the celebration even more popular over the past 12 years since the first edition of the book was published.

Cohen, a much-beloved faculty member in the SC&I Department of Journalism and Media Studies, began working at Rutgers in 1969. In 1976 he joined the faculty of the Department of Journalism and Urban Communications (which was absorbed by SC&I in 1982).

Martha Hickson received 2022 Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity for her fight against censorship.