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  School of Communication and Information 2017-2019 About the School Academic and Research Units Centers and Institutes  

Centers and Institutes

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.

Center for Organizational Development and Leadership
The Center for Organizational Development and Leadership (ODL) is a universitywide center at Rutgers University that provides programs and consultation in the areas of organizational advancement and academic and administrative leadership development. ODL 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, ODL serves as a national leader in the areas of organizational quality and self-assessment, leadership development, and communication improvement in higher education.

Collaborative for Knowledge, Innovation, and Design
The Collaborative for Knowledge, Innovation, and Design (C-KInD) is dedicated to creating a culture of innovation for communication, information, and media with scholars and practitioners. Central to the fields of media, information, and communication are the activities of design--creating, inventing, intervening, and transforming the given into something preferred. This happens when people create, for example, a news story, a health campaign, or a database. The artifacts people create and the way they create them are sources of knowledge. C-KinD embraces and experiments with Design as a Way of Knowing via a series of seminars, design events, and competitions. Each year, activities will address a core social issue such as health and wellness, urban growth, or global warming.

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 Info Seeking 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.

NetSCI Lab
The NetSCI lab is dedicated to producing cutting-edge networks research, advancing theories of social networks, methods for network analysis, and the practical application of networks research.Researchers in the lab are focused on the study of organizations and communities across multiple levels of interaction, connecting theory to practice, and informing the design of networks in everyday life.

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 as well and institutional settings.

SALTS Lab - Laboratory for the Study of Applied Language Technology and Society
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.

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 SC&I.
 
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