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May 6, 2026 Check out our final COMM Updates for the 2025–2026 academic year—and what a year it’s been! We’ll be back at the beginning of the fall 2026 semester. Awards Graduate student Margaret (Maggie) Foster received the Christine Ye...

Ten doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and service in doctoral education.

April 29, 2026 Awards Undergraduate student Rafaela Dandolfo Bustamante has been named the inaugural Marshall Engaged Scholar. As part of the program, Rafaela will spend summer 2026 working in public media at KNPR in Las Vegas. When she returns...

April 8, 2026 Awards Graduate student Rosie Nguyen received the Diverse Knowledge East Asia Fellowship from the Einaudi Center for International Studies. The fellowship is part of the East Asia Program’s Area Studies Fellowships, which support...

March 18, 2026 Events REMINDER: Join us for COMMColloquium Monday, March 23, 2026, 3:00 pm, in 102 Mann Library Building. Graduate student Bya Rodrigues will present “ Resisting Networked Misogyny: Platformized Activism, Care Infrastructures and...

March 11, 2026 Community Outreach The Social Media Lab (SML) has been engaging in community outreach lately. SML Manager Isabelle McLeod Daphnis, with former SML Postdoctoral Associate Ellen Zou, participated in the Adult Training & Development...

March 4, 2026 Events Join us for COMMColloquium Monday, March 23, 2026, 3:00 pm, in 102 Mann Library Building with graduate student Bya Rodrigues (title TBD). The colloquium is followed by a reception located in The Hub of the Department of...

November 19, 2025 Invited Lectures Graduate student Ria Gualano delivered an invited talk titled “Virtual Reality Avatars and Storytelling” as part of Disability and Extended Reality Technologies: A Research Day at the University of Michigan’s...

November 5, 2025 Grants Associate Professor Neil Lewis, Jr. received a $1,694,600 grant as Principal Investigator for his project, “Evaluating New York State Early Childhood Programs and Policies” from the New York State Council on Children and...

September 12, 2025 Welcome back to COMM Updates, the newsletter of the Department of Communication. New Faculty We are pleased to welcome Dr. Iveta Imre to our department as Senior Lecturer. Iveta is a former broadcast reporter who worked for...

Conferences & Symposia Assistant Professor M. Cornejo will be participating in a panel entitled “ Margins and Mobilization: Migrant Worker Precarity and Power in the Trump-era Economy.” Bringing together scholars and activists, the panel will...

Conferences Graduate student Julia Goolsby et al. presented “Cross-Park RAD Project: Insights for Responding to Ecological Transformation in the National Park Service” at the National Park Service North Coast & Cascades Science Days. This...

Conference Presentations Graduate student Emma Cox presented “Effects of Cohesion with Teammates on Division-I Student-Athletes’ Mental Health: An Application of the Human Need to Belong and Transactional Stress Frameworks” at the National...

Conference Presentations Research Associate Sarah Gilbert will co-deliver the paper “Whose Knowledge is Valued?: Epistemic Injustice in CSCW Applications” at the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing conference. While policies...

Check out our final COMM Updates for the 2023–2024 academic year—and what a year it’s been! We’ll be back in fall 2024. Awards Congratulations to our graduate student award winners! The Outstanding CALS Graduate Teaching Assistant recognizes...

Lectures On March 15, 2024, Professor Bruce Lewenstein delivered the inaugural lecture for Northeastern University’s Public Engagement with Science Hub, entitled “The Past, Present, and Future of Public Engagement with Science.” Bruce provided a...

Conference Participation Graduate student Beatrys Rodrigues co-authored/presented the paper “ELSI for AI? Emerging Visions of Governing AI in US Institutions” at the Society for the Social Studies of Science conference. Since the launch of the...