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Awards The annual Woodford Persuasive Speech Contest took place on November 20, 2024. The contest is the culmination of the undergraduate course Oral Communication, taught by Senior Lecturer Michelle LaVigne. The event features students...

Briefings, Conference Presentations & Workshops Leaders of the Citizens and Technology Lab (CAT Lab) held a briefing in Albany, NY, for state agency and legislative staff on the subject of “Independent Evaluation of Technology Policy.”...

Students in COMM 2450 are studying the impact of the world’s first AI-related hiring transparency law. Assistant professor J. Nathan Matias received the George D. Levy Engaged Teaching and Research Award for leading the community-engaged project...

Collaboration was the theme of the evening at the second annual Community Engagement Awards, held April 16 and hosted by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement to celebrate excellence in local and global university-community partnerships.

Award Graduate Student Amanda Vilchez received the Equitable Conservation Award & Conservation Evidence Special Recognition from Bat Conservation International. The award recognizes her research project, “Let’s Talk about Bats: Citizen Science...

Awards A Cornell University team comprising Graduate Student Stephanie Belina won second place at the International Virtual Reality Healthcare Association’s first Healthcare Hackathon Invitational, hosted at Ringling College of Art and Design...

Awards, conference participation, and Halloween pictures!

Awards Congrats to Nathan Matias, who received the Rise25 Award from the Mozilla Foundation. The award recognizes visionaries reshaping the digital future. Conference Participation Nathan Matias is organizing a panel for the Computer-Supported...

Awards Postdoctoral Associate Sarah Gilbert received a Postdoctoral Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership awarded by Cornell University. The award recognizes postdocs who demonstrate innovative, initiative-driven leadership impacting...

Research by J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication in CALS, found that Reddit community members who fact-checked suspect stories led to those stories being dropped in the website’s rankings.

Conferences & Invited Lectures Professor Bruce Lewenstein delivered the paper “Core Competencies for Communicating Basic Science” at the SciPEP workshop on equipping scientists to communicate about basic research, which was co-sponsored by the...

Awards Grad student Rebekah Wicke received the Amanda L. Kundrat Thesis of the Year Award from the Health Communication division of the International Communication Association and National Communication Association. Conferences & Invited...

Awards We are pleased to announce that Professor Katherine McComas received the Excellence in Risk Communication Research and Practice Award from the Society for Risk Analysis Risk Communication Specialty Group. The award recognizes “outstanding...

Awards We are pleased to announce that Professor Katherine McComas received the Excellence in Risk Communication Research and Practice Award from the Society for Risk Analysis Risk Communication Specialty Group. The award recognizes “outstanding...

The Cornell Center for Social Sciences grant program, which supports social science research by Cornell faculty members, has awarded $85,000 to 10 professors for their 2022-23 CCSS Faculty Fellows program.

Mitigating abuses of encrypted social media communication, on outlets such as WhatsApp and Signal, while ensuring user privacy is the focus of a five-year, $3 million NSF grant to a multidisciplinary Cornell research team.

Almost from the day it launched in March 2012, the media company Upworthy began conducting experiments, testing which headlines and photos on their stories people responded to best. The experiments worked. A year after its launch, Upworthy was...

The Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab, led by J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, recently received nearly $1.3 million in grants to further its citizen science studies on the effects of digital technology on society.

A total of 20 faculty members from eight colleges have been named Engaged Faculty Fellows, committed to advancing community-engaged learning and scholarship at Cornell and within their academic disciplines. The program is offered through the...