Center for Communication and Health Issues
The
Center
for Communication and Health Issues
(CHI) is a consortium of
educators, counselors, and students with a mission to conduct research on
communication and health issues affecting college students and to design,
implement, and evaluate campus and community-based education, intervention, and
prevention programs.
Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries
The Center for
International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) is dedicated to research, scholarship,
education, and consultancy for school library professionals. It focuses on how
learning in an information-age school is enabled and demonstrated by school
library programs, and how inquiry-based learning and teaching processes can
contribute to educational success and workplace readiness for learners. CISSL's
Director is Professor Carol Kuhlthau and Professor Ross Todd is the Director of
Research.
Health and Wellness Cluster
The
Health and Wellness Cluster brings
together faculty across the school whose research, teaching, and service focus
centrally on closing disparities and improving health and wellness outcomes for
individuals, groups, and communities in the United States and globally. Our work examines
the evolving role that communication, information, and media play in
facilitating personal and public health via a range of processes and mechanisms--health education and health literacy, risk communication, persuasion and
social influence, social support, capacity-building, and informatics--and
across a wide range of health challenges, including drug and alcohol addiction,
cancer, HIV/AIDS, obesity, Alzheimer's disease, mental health, and wellness
more generally. We work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and
practitioners across disciplines and professional practices to produce
effective and sustainable solutions to these and other challenges, and we are
equally committed to the education of our students and to the betterment of our
communities.
HCI Lab for Health and
Sustainability
HCI Lab
for Health and Sustainability
is an interdisciplinary research
lab that studies human behaviors, creates new computing technologies, and
evaluates the use of new systems in real-world settings to improve the quality
of everyday life.
InfoSeeking Lab
The InfoSeeking Lab
includes faculty, graduate
students, and undergraduates who focus on information seeking/retrieval
behavior; promote research and engage in sharing and discussing research ideas;
and explore collaborative research opportunities. Research projects relating to
information seeking/retrieval/behavior and social media have related to
collaborative information seeking, social Q&A, human-computer interaction
(HCI), search strategies, and browsing behaviors.
Laboratory for the Study of Applied Language Technology and Society (SALTS)
The Laboratory for the
Study of Applied Language Technology and Society
(SALTS)
brings together researchers interested in the development of next-generation
natural language processing technology and methodology and the design and
implementation of applied language technologies for investigating and
supporting communication, information, and media processes across cultural,
social, and geographic boundaries.
Media, Inequality, and Change Center (MIC)
The
Media,
Inequality, and Change Center (MIC) is a collaboration between Rutgers
University's School of Communication and Information and the University of
Pennsylvania's Annenberg School. The center explores the intersections between
media, democracy, technology, policy, and social justice. MIC produces engaged
research and analysis while collaborating with community leaders to help
support activist initiatives and policy interventions. The center's objective
is to develop a local-to-national strategy that focuses on communication issues
important to local communities and social movements in the region, while also
addressing how these local issues intersect with national and international
policy challenges.
NetSCI Lab
The NetSCI Lab
is
dedicated to producing cutting edge network research, advancing theories of
social networks, methods for network analysis, and the practical application of
network research.
Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership (OL)
The Rutgers Center for Organizational
Leadership (OL) is a universitywide center at Rutgers University that provides
programs and consultation in the areas of organizational advancement and
academic and administrative leadership development. OL offers a wide array of
programs and services to help administrators, faculty, staff, and graduate and
medical students enhance their leadership and organizational knowledge and
competencies. Formed in 1993, OL serves as a national leader in the areas of
organizational quality and self-assessment, leadership development, and
communication improvement in higher education.
Rutgers
University Conversation Analysis Lab (RUCAL)
The Rutgers University
Conversation Analysis Lab
(RUCAL) brings together scholars with an
interest in understanding the workings of social interaction across a wide
variety of social settings and contexts. RUCAL faculty and students examine
everyday communicative activities as they are captured in field recordings of naturally
occurring interactions and study talk-in-interaction in both social and
institutional settings.
SC&I Youth Cluster
SC&I Youth Cluster is a community of scholars from the School
of Communication and Information at Rutgers University who explore the role of
communication, media, information, and technology in the lives of young people
and the people and institutions that surround them. Our mission is two-fold: 1)
to provide opportunities within the school for support, synergy, and collaboration;
2) to advance knowledge within the field by identifying cutting-edge issues,
and bringing to bear our collective skills to address these issues.
Social Media and Society Cluster
The Social Media and
Society Cluster
is a transdisciplinary unit within Rutgers School of Communication
and Information that supports research extending across the boundaries of the
i-School, communication, and media studies programs within the school.
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