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The intention to vaccinate against HPV increased among unvaccinated male college students who watched videos of other male students explain why they got the HPV vaccine, a Rutgers study found.
During his long and distinguished career, Schement contributed to communications policy in the U.S. and helped mentor his peers with his humor and storytelling.
During the 2024 holiday season, SC&I's OSS team brought their collective time, energy, and enthusiasm to the Elijah’s Promise kitchen where they “cleaned and cut nearly 400 pounds of vegetables and cooked over 120 pounds of pasta, giving our chefs the ingredients they needed to prepare meals for about 600 people the next day,” said Elijah’s Promise Chef Chrissy Banks.
A Rutgers-led project examines trust in the technology.
The prestigious and highly competitive fellowship was formed by The Faith and Politics Institute after the 2020 death of the late civil rights leader and U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis. As a fellow, Wilson will concentrate on studying the six principles of nonviolence and the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
Nearly two dozen SC&I instructors were thanked and celebrated by Rutgers University-New Brunswick students during the January event hosted by TIIP.
“Lewis’s heroism was central to the Selma campaign in 1965, and he also was the one who did the most to keep Selma alive in popular memory in the last few decades, through these pilgrimages. So he really is the person with whom the campaign is most associated,” said SC&I and History Professor David Greenberg, author of “John Lewis: A Life.”
Formerly Interaction Design and Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) reflects an evolving identity.
“The MCM program helped me build on the skills and passions I discovered as an undergraduate, deepening my understanding of communication and media,” said Dylan Russo. “It became the foundation for my growth, both personally and professionally.”
The Vicious Cycle, a Rutgers campaign launched and staffed by SC&I faculty, staff, and student peer educators at the SC&I Center for Communication and Health Issues (CHI), was created to help reduce stigma surrounding substance use disorders at the university and help connect Rutgers students to vital recovery resources and harm reduction strategies on campus.
The SC&I faculty members in the Ph.D. program who had the greatest impact on him, Belvin said, include Betty Turock, Tefko Saracevic, Lea Stewart, and Carl Botan. He credits Lea Stewart for “helping me understand that what you said was not as important as what people heard you say and for being a great, caring person.”