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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...

Events Join us for COMMColloquium Friday, February 9, at 1:00 pm in 102 Mann Library Building. Postdoctoral Associate Miki Matsumuro will present “Cognitive Modeling in Human-Computer, Human-Machine, and Human-Agent Interaction.” The colloquium...

In a recent study published in Social Science and Medicine, a multidisciplinary team sought to deepen regulators’ understanding of how both adults and teens respond to warning labels on e-cigarettes.

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...

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...

Events Join us for COMMColloqium. The event takes place on Friday, December 1, at 1:00 pm in 102 Mann Library Building. Associate Professor Brooke Duffy will present “ Visibility in the Creator Economy: Navigating the Promises and Precarities of...

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...

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...

In a study involving 16 focus groups, a multidisciplinary research team found that uncertain and vague language on the warning labels of electronic cigarettes was confusing and reduced risk perceptions.

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...

Conferences & Invited Lectures Assistant Professor Neil Lewis, Jr., is presenting the talk “Whose Health Guidance Can I Trust? Context, Culture, and Identity-Based Motivation” at the COVID-19 and Policy Conference: Looking Backward & Looking...

Conferences & Invited Lectures Associate Professor Jon Schuldt participated in “Experts on Camera,” a series of interviews with scientists hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which are made freely available to...

Events Join us for COMMColloquium this Friday, February 10, at 4:00 pm in 160 Mann Library Building. Professor Poppy McLeod will present “Harnessing the Power of Groups for Addressing the Climate Crisis.” The colloquium is followed by a...

Conferences & Invited Lectures Associate Professor Jon Schuldt served on the panel “Climate Change Public Opinion and Recognition of Inequities within the U.S.” The panel was part of a congressional briefing on “Public Polling on Climate Change"...

Events Join us for COMMColloquium this Friday, March 3, at 2:00 pm. in 102 Mann Library Building. Y. Connie Yuan will present “The Impact of Culture: From Group Collaboration to Collective Action.” Grants Assistant Professor Andrea Stevenson Won...

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...

A Cornell-led group of researchers has developed an online search method that employs natural language processing to identify terms that are semantically similar to those for cancer screening tests, but in colloquial language.

Because of their scholarly accomplishments and commitment to advancing global knowledge about communication, professors Lee Humphreys '99 and Jeff Niederdeppe have been elected as Fellows in the International Communication Association.

According to new multi-institution research led by Jeff Niederdeppe, professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, that all depends on whose hearts and minds are in the audience. For turning...

We’ve all seen them: political ads on television that promise doom and gloom if Candidate X is elected, and how all your problems will be solved if you choose Candidate Y. And Candidate Y, of course, approves this message. Beyond attempting to...