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- Leading up to next week's Diversity and Inclusion Summit, we sat down with keynote speaker Christopher Bell (PhDMediaSt’09), University of Colorado Colorado Springs professor and Pixar consultant. Catch his talk at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, in the UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom.
- The National Communication Association recently recognized the work of four Department of Communication faculty with national awards.
- Faculty and students affiliated with the Department of Information Science will be presenting work at the CSCW 2019 conference, the premier venue for research on computer-supported cooperative work and social computing.
- As vice chairman, president and CEO of the Miami Dolphins, Tom Garfinkel (Comm’91) has led an off-the-field resurrection of one of the NFL’s most storied franchises.
- “We knew there were inherent biases in these systems around race and ethnicity and we suspected there would also be problems around gender,” said senior author Jed Brubaker, an assistant professor of Information Science. “We set out to test this in the real world.”
- The Department of Information Science has recently earned several grants and awards from organizations both on and off campus.
- The Water Desk, a journalism initiative at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journalism, has awarded its first grants to support journalists and media outlets covering Western water issues and the
- Join Professor Shiv Ganesh of the University of Texas Austin as he examines this question in his keynote, “Contentious Politics and the Domestication of Activism.” Ganesh’s talk is free and open to the public, and will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24, in UMC 235.
- Join acclaimed artist and scholar Sha Xin Wei, director of the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University, as he explores how engineers, humanists and artists can learn more effectively from one another. Sha will deliver the keynote, “Prototyping Social Forms: Research-Creation Ateliers,” as part of a two-day Ecologies of Practices symposium that will take place Sept.18-19 on Ƶ Boulder’s campus.
- A new class of fellows will dig into issues ranging from water scarcity to the environmental impact of meat production through the University of Colorado Boulder’s Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism program.