September 2024 - News Articles

The grant will support the news service in its mission to collaborate with New Jersey’s colleges and universities to mentor and train promising student journalists, including Rutgers SC&I JMS students, through reporting on state government, the Legislature, and politics for local media partners across the state.

“A lot of college graduates always talk about how they hardly use the skills they learned from their college courses, where I feel like I apply the skills I learned from Rutgers every day,” Boone said.

Holloway spoke with Emanuel, Chief Washington correspondent for Fox News Channel and co-anchor of FOX News Live, during a class for his Byrne Seminar “Cultivating Citizenship to Support Democracy.”

Ahmed, a Ph.D. Candidate at SC&I and Murphy, who holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, will join the LIS faculty in fall, 2024.

“Some of the communications strategies and techniques that I learned in the master’s program that I use often in my job today and in previous roles are stakeholder communication strategy, organizational change, management communications, and crisis communications,” Freeman said.

As a professional soccer player and founder and CEO of the Casey Murphy Goalkeeping Academy (CMGK), Murphy said she continuously applies the knowledge and skills she gained at Rutgers SC&I as a Communication major and DCIM minor.

Senior Luis Cambronero-Briceno tells SC&I about his Rutgers journey and how he hopes to balance his career goals as a public relations practitioner with his passion for film.

Longtime SC&I Lecturer Michael Bzdak, Ph.D., Receives the Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award from the Society of Women Engineers. .

Libraries and Information Institutions in the Digital Age (LIDA) is an international biennial conference that brings together researchers, educators, students, practitioners, and developers from around the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, held in memorable environments. For LIDA 2025, we return to Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 19-21, 2025.

She’s also a good-humored, airplane-flying, novel-writing former opera singer who writes songs and plays the spoons.

A new Rutgers study shows that breast cancer patients who experience anxiety prior to oncology appointments communicate differently and may require additional support from their clinical teams to optimize their treatment and post-treatment outcomes.

“Taking classes in the Digital Communication, Information, and Media Minor fits perfectly in a fast-paced post-COVID world. Learning to navigate various online platforms and technology has prepared me for the transition from hands-on experience in the classroom to post-graduate career opportunities,” Plaut said.

A farmer’s daughter hailing from Hammonton, New Jersey, the “blueberry capital of the world,” Joyce DeStasio’s always had a love for literature and education. While she’s currently the outreach librarian at Stockton University’s Bjork Library in Galloway, NJ, librarianship wasn’t always her path.

The aim of a new Rutgers study was to examine how visual representations created via generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can be utilized in teaching and learning. The study helps illuminate both the potential and the pitfalls of GenAI applications for education.

“Understanding information is a necessity to understanding the world, its processes, and its people.”

Mark Beal, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Communication, attended the Olympics this summer, and said his major focus at the games was watching how NBC engaged the next generation of potential Olympic fans, Gen Z and Gen Alpha.

In June 2024, rising junior and Journalism and Media Studies major Gabriela Rubin traveled to Israel, and she said her experiences meeting with and speaking to Israeli leaders, soldiers, and citizens confirmed her passions for journalism, media, and politics, and left her even more committed to pursuing her dream of working in media post-graduation.