Dr. Yolanda A. Rankin, an Assistant Professor in the School of Information, has been awarded a $342,566 Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund her research which examines the lived intersectional experiences of Black women in computing. Her project, titled “Building a Sisterhood in Computing (BASiC),” aims to develop a deeper understanding of the …
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iSchool Professor Receives NSF Grant
SCSD Associate Professor Published In Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Associate Professor in the School of Communication Science and Disorders, Kaitlin Lansford, and her team were recently published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Her group’s article, “Regularity Matters: Unpredictable Speech Degradation Inhibits Adaptation to Dysarthric Speech,” focuses on Dysarthria, a mobile speech disorder arising from neurological damage or disease that often …
CONTINUE READINGClayton Named AEJMC Emerging Scholar
Dr. Russell Clayton is an Assistant Professor and Founding Director of the Cognition and Emotion Lab (CEL) in the School of Communication. He has recently been named an Emerging Scholar by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). As one of only four Emerging Scholars selected, he will be recognized and presented …
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Vaibhav Diwanji and Abigail Reed, doctoral candidates in the School of Communication, have been published in the Computers in Human Behavior Journal, a publication that addresses human interactions with technologies, especially in the new media environments. Their article, “Don’t just watch, join in: Exploring information behavior and copresence on Twitch,” provides theoretical insights into understanding …
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