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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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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...
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Happy New Year from the Department of Communication! Awards Several faculty, staff, and graduate students received prestigious awards. Professor Natalie Bazarova received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative...
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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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Openly gay men were more likely than those who conceal their sexual orientation to seek care for mpox last year during a global outbreak that disproportionately affected their community, researchers from Cornell and the University of Toronto...

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Influencers are encouraged to reveal their innermost selves to their followers – to “put themselves out there” – but doing so can result in identity-based harassment, according to research by Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of...

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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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Strogatz’s and Lewis’ work was selected by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine from among 500 entries published or aired in 2023.

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Newsletters

The Department of Communication newsletter, COMMconnect, publishes department events, as well as faculty, staff, student, and advisory board accomplishments. To subscribe to the newsletter, send your email address to Kelli Carr, kac345@cornell.edu.

History of the Department of Communication

The History of the Department of Communication, compiled by William B. Ward, details the department's history from 1874, when Cornell offered the first university-level journalism course, to 2000, with faculty and staff who are still part of the department today. The book is up for digital download (links to the right), and there are physical copies available in the department.