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January 21, 2026 Awards & Grants Professor danah boyd has been awarded a Research Seed Grant on “The Political Economy of AI,” receiving $5,000 from Cornell Global Hubs. This grant supports a collaboration with researchers at the University of...
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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...
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Conferences & Symposia Associate Professor Brooke Duffy delivered a lecture entitled “The Creator Economy's Labor Revolution” at SXSW 2025 in Austin, Texas. Despite the astonishing growth of the creator economy, social media creators remain...
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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...
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Conference Presentations Graduate student Ria Gualano is presenting two papers at the International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, which takes place October 30, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador: “’I Try to...
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Conferences In collaboration with colleagues from Cornell’s Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems, graduate student Sohinee Bera presented at the Programmable Plants for a Sustainable Future conference. The conference was part of the...
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Media Coverage Research Associate Sarah Gilbert was quoted in the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research podcast “ Research Ethics across Domains.” The podcast explored the intersection of research ethics, online communities, and...
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Welcome back to the new semester and COMM Updates! Honors Continuing in the tradition of appointing our faculty members in high-level leadership positions, the university announced Professor Natalie Bazarova was appointed Associate Vice Provost...
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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...
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Events Join us for COMMColloquium Friday, April 19, at 1:00 pm in 160 Mann Library Building. Visiting Associate Professor Bolin Cao (Shenzhen University) will present “ Understanding Human-Chatbot Interaction: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and...
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Conferences Associate Professor Dawn Schrader is organizing and chairing a conference session for the annual American Association for Educational Research conference. She will chair the Moral Development and Education Special Interest Group’s...
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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...
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Events Join us for COMMColloquium Friday, March 8, at 1:00 pm in 102 Mann Library Building. Associate Professor Andrea Stevenson Won will present “Embodiment Now.” The colloquium is followed by a reception, located in The Hub of the Department...
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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...
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Symposium On December 7 and 8, the Department of Communication hosted the two-day symposium “Freedom of Expression in the Age of Disinformation,” part of President Pollack’s Freedom of Expression initiatives. The event, co-sponsored by the...
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A symposium led by the Department of Communication brought together more than 100 scholars, students and community members to discuss topics such as histories of media and propaganda, content moderation on social media, public opinion as freedom...
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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...
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Alumni News Professor Hepeng Jia Ph.D. ’19 was ranked as a provincial key talent in China. This marks the first time a faculty member of the School of Communication, Soochow University (Suzhou, Jiangsu Province), received this honor. This...
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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...
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Awards Assistant Professor Neil Lewis, Jr., received the International Communication Association’s Early Career Scholar Award. The award honors a scholar no more than seven years past receipt of the Ph.D. for a body of work that has contributed...
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