Events
Join us for the first COMMColloquium of 2023, this Friday, February 3, at 2:00 pm. Karen Levy will be presenting.
Grants
Lee Humphreys, Co-PI, “The Sound of Silence: Mapping Immigrants' Preferences and Use of Public Space through Social Media toward an Inclusive Design and Management of the Urban Commons.” The $150,000 grant, funded by the Migrations Project, Mellon Foundation, supports a collaboration with landscape architects and information scientists to better incorporate the needs and cultures of immigrant communities into the design of a new park in east L.A.
Andrea Stevenson Won, Co-PI, “Piloting Virtual Reality Environments to Treat PTSD in Healthcare Workers Consequent to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” With this $75,000 grant, funded by a Multi-Investigator Seed Grant (an internal Cornell grant), Andrea and her colleagues will pilot personalized virtual reality experiences to address PTSD in health-care workers consequent to the Covid-19 pandemic
Publications
Bruce Lewenstein and Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, December 2022, “How Should We Organize Science communication Trainings to Achieve Competencies?”International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement. *The paper is open-access until March 31.
Neil Lewis, Jr., January 2023, “Are Standardized Tests Racist, or Are They Anti-Racist?” The Atlantic. Neil has moved his public scholarship (formerly at FiveThirtyEight) to The Atlantic. His inaugural article addresses standardized testing debates and what they mean for university admissions.
Yiwei Xu and Drew Margolin, January 2023, “Collective Information Seeking During a Health Crisis : Predictors of Google Trends During COVID-19,”Health Communication. The article approaches collective health-information seeking from a computational method by investigating patterns of Google Trends data in the United States during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. They analyzed factors that prompted a community’s curiosity and information that communities were most curious about using cross-sectional and time-series-based analyses.
