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February 11, 2026 Awards Professor danah boyd was selected as a Non-Resident Fellow by the Center for Democracy & Technology, an honor recognizing leading scholars who contribute expertise on technology policy, civil rights, and democratic...

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...

Researchers in the Virtual Embodiment Lab found that engagement in social virtual reality, whether with loved ones or total strangers, enhances pain tolerance.

Cornell researchers are working to understand how robots can assist humans in dangerous and physically challenging environments, but the project, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, has been halted by a stop-work order.

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...

Briefings, Conference Presentations, Panels & Workshops Associate Professor Brooke Duffy delivered two panel talks at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference. In “From CareerTok to #Quietquitting: Social Media Communication...

Cornell researchers have found that in social VR settings, the decision to disclose an invisible disability – a physical, mental or neurological condition that’s not apparent but can limit a person’s movements, senses or activities – is personal...

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...

A new study suggests that the gender of an AI’s voice can positively tweak the dynamics of gender-imbalanced teams and could help inform the design of bots used for human-AI teamwork.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers tested several methods of data visualization in an immersive virtual reality classroom to give teachers a way to gauge how their gaze was distributed.

Conferences Associate Professor Andrea Stevenson Won is delivering two Late-Breaking papers at the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The first (with Y. Yoo, J. Segal, and A. Hayes) is “Just Look at Them! Encouraging Self...

Awards Associate Professor Andrea Stevenson Won, with A. H.-C., received an honorable mention for a paper to be presented at the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Entitled “The Sound of Support: The Presence of Gendered...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Conferences & Invited Lectures Adjunct Associate Professor Tarleton Gillespie will participate in the opening panel of the “Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society” conference. This panel opens the conference by discussing how...

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...