SC&I Ph.D. student Allyson Bontempo and her co-authors conducted research showing it’s vital for gynecologic cancer patients to feel free to talk about their negative emotions if they want to. Bontempo said, “If they can’t, or even perceive that they can’t, they are going to be bottling up all of their feelings, which isn’t healthy.
Frank Educational Gilmore, who graduated from SC&I in 2014 after serving a 10-year prison sentence, is the founder and CEO of the Educational Gilmore Community Learning Center, where children K-7 receive tutoring, nurturing, and inspiration. He is also a national motivational speaker in the area of youth development and youth programming.
Gilmore and the center were recently featured on The Ellen Show.
In order to benefit local low-income, promising students, Frank Kabela, ’60, who majored in journalism at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, and his wife Pat, who attended Douglass College at Rutgers, have pledged a seven-figure gift to the Rutgers Future Scholars Program.
Ruiz, an Information Technology and Informatics major at SC&I, is one of only 1,000 students in the country chosen for this honor. As an Under 30 Scholar, Ruiz will attend the Forbes Under 30 Summit where he plans to network and gain insight into what it takes to run a company.
Montague hopes to promote further collaboration between public librarians and social workers as she observes Rutgers’ first Masters of Social Work (MSW) intern, Sandra Burstyn, at the East Brunswick Public Library. Burstyn was placed there as a result of an existing collaboration between the School of Communication and Information, The School of Social Work, and the East Brunswick Public Library.
Through his new book, Gigliotti hopes the book will be useful for departments, organizations, and leaders seeking to improve their knowledge and skills in the area of crisis leadership.
From what started as a Capstone project at SC&I, three recent Rutgers grads aim to bring VetCoin to market with the hopes of giving back to the Veteran community.
Deputy Director of the Nevada Film Office, Harran, who majored in Journalism and Media Studies at SC&I, said, “The instructors/professors and the environment they created at Rutgers cleared the way for me to grow up in an environment that challenged me to learn while giving me the support and tools I would need to ultimately be successful.”
MI Alumnus Marvin Edmond ‘19 speaks with SC&I about his career as a Data Engineer at Cognizant, his previous role as a Data Engineer at New York Magazine, and why he credits SC&I’s faculty and professional network for his success.
Harris, who is Senior Vice President, Chief Communications Officer at Conagra, offers his advice for building and maintaining a successful career. The essentials? Commit to working hard, being open to change, and giving back.
