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A presenter addresses the conference audience.

Global scholars gather for Media, Gender and Religion Conference

Jan. 12, 2016

View photos and learn more about the Gender, Media and Religion Conference, which brought together scholars of religion, media studies, gender and sexuality on Jan. 7-11.

Palen wins award, Echchaibi chats with KGNU and News Corps presents new projects

Dec. 21, 2015

Leysia Palen , professor and founding department chair of Information Science, was recognized at CHI 2015 with a SIGCHI Social Impact award. In her acceptance talk, she discussed Frontiers in Crisis Informatics. Watch now. SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) is the premier international society for professionals, academics and...

Students sit at winter graduation.

Class of 2015 Celebrates Winter Graduation

Dec. 18, 2015

Faculty, students and their families gathered in Macky Auditorium to recognize 130 graduates from the Department of Communication and journalism and mass communication program.

A presentation from the Platform Cooperativism conference.

Faculty organize, attend a “coming-out party” for the cooperative Internet

Dec. 7, 2015

Could cooperative economic principles create a more democratic Internet? More than a thousand people, including entrepreneurs, scholars, and activists gathered for the Platform Cooperativism conference at the New School in New York to discuss this question.

student with diploma

2014 Graduation Pictures

Dec. 22, 2014

View our favorites. Congratulations to the winter class of 2014!

Mike McDevitt

Youth snap parents into political-rearing mode, says -Boulder-led study

Oct. 30, 2014

Parents are more reactive than proactive when providing political influence and opportunities for their children, according to a study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The study, published in the journal Social Science Quarterly, found that political engagement independently pursued by youth spurs parents to realize that childrearing extends to the civic realm. It also is the first study to show intentional political parenting as an outcome of family interaction rather than a stimulus.

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