Welcome back! To further promote community wellness, courses within the School of Communication and Information will be offered remotely for the Fall 2020 semester. As a result, the SC&I Office of Student Services will continue to operate remotely through the Fall 2020 semester as well. Be assured that we remain committed to providing outstanding academic, personal, and career support to all our students.
In “Organizing Inclusion,” a new book edited by Professor Marya Doerfel and former SC&I faculty member Jennifer Gibbs, the authors “challenge all of us to rethink our own role in perpetuating racist systems and how we can change that with both individual-level and structural changes.”
We released the summer 2020 edition of the SC&I newsletter and there are a number of important university and SC&I news items to share.
The Journalism and Media Department is proud to present "Coronaworld," a special summer edition of Kairos magazine.
“It’s all about the ABCDs of remote learning: Assistance, Broadband Connectivity, and Devices,” said Katz, who conducts research with children growing up in low-income, working class and immigrant families and how they learn about and with new technology. “Students need all of those bases covered for distance learning to work.”
Mary Chayko Reappointed Honors College Faculty Fellow in Residence for 2020-2021,
A SC&I research team led by Assistant Professor Sunyoung Kim is working with the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey to develop a patient portal for leukemia patients. The system will enable clinicians to communicate treatment scenarios and outcomes to their patients in a less stressful way, and it will enable patients to investigate information about their illness autonomously.
Floegel, a SC&I Ph.D. candidate whose research interests focus on people's information creation practices, sociotechnical assemblages, and social justice in information institutions such as libraries, has been recognized by ASIS&T SIG SI as an emerging researcher in social informatics.
Support for returning to in-person classes varies by gender, ethnicity, political affiliation., and income.
What a summer for JMS major Lauren Boone. She is interning at NBC, in June she was named Captain of the Rutgers Women’s Swimming and Diving Team, and in July she was named a Scholar All American. Read how she manages her time, what she enjoys the most about her JMS classes, and her future aspirations.
