Ph.D Program News

Montague hopes to promote further collaboration between public librarians and social workers as she observes Rutgers’ first Masters of Social Work (MSW) intern, Sandra Burstyn, at the East Brunswick Public Library. Burstyn was placed there as a result of an existing collaboration between the School of Communication and Information, The School of Social Work, and the East Brunswick Public Library.

The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual meeting will be held in Melbourne, Australia, this year, and will focus on the ways information and its delivery “to the right group, at the right place, in the right time, and in the right way” impacts personal behaviors.

In an award-winning report, SC&I’s Doctoral Candidate Qun Wang and her co-authors shared their findings based on an analysis of 16,000 news stories from 100 local communities in 34 states.

SC&I Ph.D. students Kate Gressitt Diaz, Fredrika Thelandersson, and Nicole Weber received awards this summer.

To more accurately reflect the curriculum, SC&I's Ph.D. Program's name has changed to Communication, Information and Media.

The School of Communication and Information (SC&I) congratulates alumna Kate Magsamen-Conrad, Ph.D., Communication ’12, who recently received the Early Career Award from the Health Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

Kang, who was one of only 36 students chosen from all over the Unites States to attend the NCA's DHS, said she benefitted most from the feedback she received on her dissertation, and the knowledge and networking opportunities she gained.

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) has named Wang the recipient of the 2018 Lee Barrow Minority Doctoral Scholarship and the Promising Professors Award.

Ph.D. grad Rannie Teodoro ’16 discusses her current career at Facebook as a Research Manager on the User Experience Research Team, and how faculty members at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) helped her achieve her goals.

Souvick Ghosh, doctoral student at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I), has been awarded the LIS Education and Data Science for the National Digital Platform (LEADS-4-NDP) Fellowship.