January 2021 - News Articles

Cooke, a three-time SC&I alumna, is the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and an Associate Professor at UofSC. The award, UofSC wrote, was “created to recognize individuals who have exemplified the philosophies of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. through random or ongoing acts of community service, social justice or racial reconciliation.”

It attracted over 374 registrants and 212 participants, and SC&I’s career networking event enabled students to engage with alumni, faculty, and staff to find career information, inspiration, and direction.

SC&I faculty member Richard Dool and the students in one of his Master of Communication and Media classes collaborated on the book, and the result is a guide that offers a compendium of 10 competencies for leading successfully in the 21st Century.

In December 2020, the Henry Stewart organization announced that Yonah’s presentation was the number-one most watched video from their collection for 2020! Yonah is also the co-founder, co-director, and one of the instructors in SC&I’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) certificate program.

The Executive Director of the American Library Association has appointed Associate Teaching Professor Joyce Valenza to the ALA Business Advisory Group. The group, ALA said, will explore and advise ALA on strategies related to new business development.

Rutgers Today interviews Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies Khadijah Costley White.

Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States at noon on January 20.

As the founder and head of Muslim.co, the first international news and lifestyle publication for Millennial and Gen Z Muslims, Al-Khatahtbeh, at 22, is the youngest to make the list in the media category.

Welcome back to the spring 2021 semester. As teaching starts we are, of course, disappointed that it must be delivered at a distance.  We welcome your understanding of why that is.  And I want to let you know, how grateful we are to have you as part of the SC&I community. 

Matthew Weber, a communication scholar whose research examines media, organizational change, and communication dynamics, has rejoined SC&I as an associate professor with tenure after having served for several years as an endowed faculty member at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

Rutgers researcher explains how understanding media and advertising helps with substance abuse among adolescents.

“The beautiful thing about people is we all come from different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, and cultures. Absorbing knowledge from others is the best advice I have received as it allows me to learn and think with an open mind.”

SC&I alumnus Kevin Samaniego Calva ’20, who graduated with a degree in Information Technology and Informatics (ITI), is working as a software engineer and helping friends expand a nonprofit focused on environmental cleanup.

SC&I alumna Clarissa Guzman ’20, who graduated with a degree in Information Technology and Informatics (ITI), is finding early success as she uses her knowledge to guide her interests.