One of only four Ph.D. students selected for this honor from across all of Rutgers University, the award honors Wang for her overall record as an academic, including her dissertation, publications, teaching, and other academic achievements.
In new research, Dafna Lemish and her co-author explore the ways parents, locked down at home managing their children and careers during the pandemic, post and share humor on social media as a way to relieve stress and mitigate their feelings of anxiety, and how their posts reveal much about 21st century society.
SC&I Faculty & Student Presentations at #NCA2020.
The researchers, including Assistant Professor Katherine Ognyanova, polled participants on which issues are, or will be, on their minds as they enter the voting booth on or before Nov. 3.
Beth Rizzotti earned her Master of Library Science at SC&I in 1991. While a graduate student, she took an internship that developed into a full-time position which in turn led to a decades-long career with her current employer, Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH). Having this experience prompts Beth to advise students to start networking from their very first day at SC&I.
In “What’s at Stake: How the elections will influence our future,” students write about the new political activism of Gen Z; the Trump campaign's challenges to New Jersey’s mail-in voting program; and about sex assault victims’ uncomfortable choice, between two presidential candidates who have both been accused of sexual misconduct.
Collins, a veteran journalist, had been a part-time lecturer for JMS since 2015. She taught Writing for the Media, a course that introduces both JMS majors and students from across the university to the basics of media writing, and the department’s popular Fashion Journalism course, which she developed.
SC&I faculty member Kaitlin Costello and Ph.D. student Diana Floegel have received the award for their paper examining how people diagnosed with mental health conditions feel about the mental health apps they use, and the critical privacy, ethics, and justice issues surrounding their use.
All of us can be incredibly proud of the response and performance of the School of Communication and Information over the past seven months during the coronavirus pandemic.
With very little notice last spring, our full- and part-time faculty and teaching assistants transitioned campus classes to remote learning and our staff redesigned all operations to work remotely. In every area of the school people demonstrated tremendous dedication and creativity to assure the teaching, research, and work of the school would continue as smoothly as possible.
The award recognizes graduate faculty who have made significant contributions to graduate education at Rutgers University.
