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How This Alumna Is Helping to Bring the Olympic Games to Life

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A Rutgers Expert Discusses the Origins of Black History Month and How its Purpose Has Evolved

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Celebrating the Communication Major at Rutgers: The #BeCOMM Campaign Launches Today

The campaign will feature the COMMchella Music Festival at The Yard on April 8. 

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Student Success Stories

Betting On Himself: How COM’26 Sean Abramik Is Building a Future in Sports Media

Through his work with Rutgers Athletic Communications, Sean Abramik COM’26 discovered a passion for sports media. He now aspires to work for a professional team such as the New York Knicks, and one day, he'd like to be part of the Olympic media team.

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Passion, Purpose, PR: How Valeria Yanez COM’26 Is Building a Future in Sports Communication

Valeria Yanez COM’26 balances leadership roles in Rutgers PRSSA, Scarlet PR, and Lambda Pi Eta while gaining hands-on experience that helped her land an internship with the New York Yankees.

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Why Valentine’s Day Can Bring Up Big Feelings Even When Things Seem Fine

Rutgers experts discuss why the holiday can heighten expectations, uncertainty and grief and what real love can look like beyond Feb. 14.

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Rutgers iSchool Contributes Expertise to “A New Chapter: Imagine the Possibilities” at the 2026 NJLA/NJASL Conference

Conference unites public, academic, and school librarians around shared priorities and forward-looking scholarship.

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Student Success Stories

Alina Arshad JMS'28 Awarded Prestigious David Carr Scholarship

The scholarship will enable Arshad to attend the Power of Narrative Conference hosted by Boston University College of Communication in March 2026.


 

How This Alumna Is Helping to Bring the Olympic Games to Life
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How This Alumna Is Helping to Bring the Olympic Games to Life

For Laureano, who graduated from Rutgers University-New Brunswick in 2015 and is the director of NBC’s creative development team for the Olympics and Paralympics, working behind the scenes is her everyday reality.

 

JMS Voices: A New Platform Amplifying Creativity, Community, and the Future of Media at Rutgers.
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JMS Voices: A New Platform Amplifying Creativity, Community, and the Future of Media at Rutgers

Driven by the vision of Journalism and Media Studies faculty members Steve Miller and Neal Bennett, and powered by JMS students Chloe Berwick, Dio Gonzalez, and Melly Merida, JMS Voices is reshaping hands-on media creation at Rutgers in real time.

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A Rutgers Expert Discusses the Origins of Black History Month and How its Purpose Has Evolved

SC&I Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and of History  David Greenberg, the author of John Lewis: A Life, a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in biography, discusses the origins of Black History Month. 

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One of the First Big Anti-AI Campaigns From Hollywood Is Launching Now (Roxanne Gay)

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