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.