SC&I Ph.D. student Allyson Bontempo and her co-authors conducted research showing it’s vital for gynecologic cancer patients to feel free to talk about their negative emotions if they want to. Bontempo said, “If they can’t, or even perceive that they can’t, they are going to be bottling up all of their feelings, which isn’t healthy.
Nicholas Belkin, an internationally known scholar of human-centered information retrieval, is transitioning to distinguished professor emeritus at Rutgers, and will continue his cutting-edge work at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication has named Wang the recipient of the Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award, and the International Communication Association Journalism Studies Division has awarded her an honorable mention for her dissertation in the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation in Journalism Studies Award.
The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) has named Diane Sonnenwald, Ph.D.'93 the 2020 recipient of the ASIS&T Award of Merit, the highest honor presented by the Association. The award’s purpose is to recognize an individual who has made particularly noteworthy and sustained contributions to the information science field.
Greer’s scholarship profoundly impacted the field of library and information science. In a Q&A with SC&I Professor Emeritus Dan O’Connor, one of Greer’s students and a lifelong colleague, SC&I explores Greer’s years at Rutgers and how Rutgers was instrumental in pioneering his work and teaching.
When Harry Potter fans have attended midnight movie launches, book signings, festivals, and other events, they are directly contributing to the success of the Harry Potter franchise, now and into the future.
The book “focuses on Menhem the designer; it offers an overview of his career along three main axes: political engagement, cultural production, and journalistic design.”
The book explores a new type of collective memory, that of aging baby boomers who first labeled their parents “The Greatest Generation” to share and celebrate their accomplishments during World War II.
Lingel explores “how craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early web.”
In this new book, Lerner tells the story of (MORE) and its legacy, and explores the power of criticism to reform and guide the institutions of the press and, in turn, influence public discourse.
