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Research News
Botswana-Rutgers Leadership Summit Focused on Fostering Relationships and Leadership Goals
Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership was actively involved in the design, coordination, and facilitation of the Botswana-Rutgers Leadership Summit, which was hosted at Rutgers in early May 2019.
Jonathan Potter Named ICA Fellow
The International Communication Association honors SC&I’s Dean Jonathan Potter for his distinguished contributions to the field of communication and his service to education.
The NSF-Funded 2019 CSST Summer Research Institute Boosts Emerging Scholar Development in Sociotechnical Systems and Critical Informatics Research
The NSF-funded 2019 Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) Summer Research Institute, to be held at Rutgers on June 18-22 2019, will connect late-phase doctoral students and emerging scholars with senior scholars in sociotechnical systems and critical informatics research fields, providing substantive learning and research coordination networking opportunities to advance their work.
Jonathan Potter Named Fellow of the British Psychological Society
The society honors Potter for his significant and lasting impact on the field of psychology.
J. Sophia Fu Awarded Top Early Career Scholar Paper Award
The D.C. Health Communication Conference has named Fu the recipient of this award for her paper that examines the ways social network sites and online health communities have opened up new possibilities for prompting health behavior change and improving health outcomes.
Four New Faculty Members To Join SC&I in September
Warren Allen, E.E. Lawrence, Britt Paris and Gretchen Stahlman will join the faculty in SC&I’s Department of Library and Information Science (LIS) in September, 2019.
SC&I’s 2019 Scholarly Incubator Focuses on Ethics
The SC&I scholarly incubator is held annually to provide SC&I faculty with the time and space to gather together to ponder and discuss issues related to their scholarship, teaching, and ways of being in the academia. This year, the faculty discussed ethics.
Television Programming for Children Reveals Systematic Gender Inequality, According to New Rutgers Study
SC&I’s Dafna Lemish and her co-author Colleen Russo Johnson from Ryerson University, who found systematic gender inequality in both the television programming children watch, and behind the scenes in the male-dominated television industry as well, call attention to the children’s TV industry and encourage change.
Media, Inequality, and Change (MIC) Center Hosts Launch Symposium
The aim of the MIC Center, which is a collaboration between SC&I and the Annenberg School for Journalism at the University of Pennsylvania, is to bridge some of these divides, bringing together the thought leadership advanced through academia and the activists who work tirelessly on social issues.
The Intercept, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Naomi Klein Present “A Message From the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” an Animated Film Focused on the Green New Deal and Featuring Exclusive Art by Illustrator Molly Crabapple
The Intercept, together with U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein (“The Shock Doctrine”) are proud to present “A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” a 7-minute animated film featuring art by award-winning illustrator Molly Crabapple (“Brothers of the Gun”), co-written by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Avi Lewis (“This Changes Everything”) and co-directed by Kim Boekbinder and Jim Batt. The film is narrated by Ocasio-Cortez.