"We Were Hungry for Information": How Minority-Owned Micro-Businesses Survived COVID-19, Rutgers Study Finds During the COVID-19 pandemic, how did minority-owned micro-businesses in New Jersey stay informed and keep their businesses operati…
Bridging Research and Policy, Itzhak Yanovitzky Earns NAMI NJ Advocacy Award The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has awarded Professor of Communication Itzhak Yanovitzky the New Jersey Phil Lubitz Award for Advocacy. The award, N…
SC&I Names Jennifer Theiss Director of Ph.D. Program for Second Term The Rutgers School of Communication and Information has named Professor of Communication Jennifer Theiss director of the Ph.D. Program in Communication, Information, and M…
Does the News Really “Find You”? A New Rutgers Study Says Yes—and No How do Americans find news? Do they actively search news publications and sites, or do they passively rely on social media feeds and friends to keep them informed? A recen…
SC&I Scholars Present Research and Earn Recognition at the 76th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference School of Communication and Information (SC&I) faculty members and doctoral students presented research and earn…
Researchers Map Major Gaps in New Jersey’s Local News Coverage In some New Jersey communities, residents can regularly find local news coverage of school board meetings, redevelopment debates, and elections. In others, that information is i…
SC&I Faculty and Doctoral Students Present Research at the Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting Faculty and Ph.D. students from the Rutgers School of Communication and Information are presenting research at the Society of Behaviora…
The Pride of Rutgers Golf Tees Up for the Masters Billy Garbarini enrolled at Rutgers in 1959 and went on to be captain of the Scarlet Knights men’s golf team in his senior year when it won the prestigious Metropolitan Collegiate Golf Champ…
Jessica Herczeg-Konecny is the Lead Technical Analyst, Digital Asset Management, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. After undergraduate work in English and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Jessica obtained a m…
Heidi Tuneberg is a senior marketing, creative, and operations executive who helps organizations turn creative vision into operational reality. As a transformation consultant, she designs modern marketing ecosystems at the intersection of s…
Colleen Moore is a creative operations and studio leadership professional with a career rooted in building thoughtful, scalable creative systems. Her work sits at the intersection of strategy, production, and people—where creative vision me…
Betting On Himself: How COM’26 Sean Abramik Is Building a Future in Sports Media “Upon entering Rutgers University, I promised myself a few non-negotiable rules,” said Sean Abramik COM’26, who created this personal challenge before he even