March 2021 - News Articles

Rutgers University will require the COVID-19 vaccine for students who are enrolled for the 2021 fall semester.

Associate Teaching Professor Joyce Valenza worked with LIS students and alumni to launch SchoolLibraryNJ, a website hosting a variety of LibGuides for students, parents, educators, administrators, and librarians to access critical resources for bridging information equity gaps.

The D.C. Health Communication Conference will focus on “Health Communication Imperatives and Contributions” and “Promoting Equity in Health Communication Research.” Seven scholars from SC&I, representing faculty, part-time faculty, and students will participate.

Journalism and Media Studies (JMS) student Anna Masciandaro ’22 is a Scarlet Promise Grant recipient and first-generation college student. She is part of the Honors College and Douglass Residential College and is active in various clubs and organizations, including the Daily Targum and Rutgers Women’s Ultimate Frisbee.

Parents without a four-year college degree are far more likely to be vaccine hesitant and resistant than their counterparts with a four-year college degree or higher.

The 24/25th Annual New Jersey Communication Association Conference, focusing on “Communicating in Challenging and Difficult Times and the Need for Clarity and Transparency” will feature a keynote by Juan D. González, the Richard D. Heffner Professor of Communications and Public Policy and Professor of Professional Practice, Journalism and Media Studies at SC&I.

SC&I alumna and yoga teacher, musician, and author, Laura Wootton JMS ’07, publishes “The Sun is Shining,” a children’s book with inspiring messages and illustrations that is meant for all ages.

The Digital Asset Management Certificate Program is adding three new courses as of April 2021, including Rights for DAM, DAM for GLAM, and Technical Considerations for Content Ecosystems.

As parents prepare for their children to return to school in the fall, Associate Professor Vikki Katz and her colleagues work to find answers for educators and policymakers seeking to smooth children’s transitions back into classrooms.

Rutgers University-New Brunswick Chancellor Christopher Molloy and Executive Vice Chancellor Felicia McGinty included Assistant Dean for Student Services Kevin Ewell among a select group of Rutgers staff members they acknowledged and praised for their “work and commitment” and “willingness to consistently answer the call of service.”

In her first book, “Strong, Calm, Confident You,” alumna Kelsey Buckholtz MCM ’14 shows women of all ages how to “learn to love themselves again and start living a more authentic, happy life.”

Maheem Hasan is a SC&I junior who is double-majoring in Information Technology and Informatics (ITI) and Cognitive Science while minoring in Psychology. Making the most of her time on campus, Maheem interns with the Rutgers Office of IT Accessibility (OITA), works for RU-Info, and belongs to several campus organizations, including Muslim Student Association (MSA) and Women in Information Technology and Informatics (Women in ITI).

Love, a faculty member at SC&I, wrote a chapter for the new book “Four Hundred Souls” that tells the history of the Royal African Company, an English slave-trading company that held a monopoly on the British slave trade between the African continent and the West Indies.

Brian Deakyne ’14, Brian Fonseca ’18, and Patrick Lanni ’13, are sports reporters for NJ Advance Media, and they all credit the Journalism and Media Studies Program at SC&I for preparing them for career success.

The iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award Chairs wrote, in praise of Ghosh’s dissertation, “the thesis combines the use of developing methods, an emerging technology, and is also true to ‘the best traditions of our field.’”

Faculty, students, and alumni from SC&I’s Communication Department will attend the Eastern Communication Association’s 112th annual conference. The virtual event is being held from March 24–March 28.