Danny Pimentel, SOJC assistant professor of immersive psychology, won the 2025 Rising Star Award from Augmented World Expo. He was recognized for using immersive technologies to inspire prosocial and pro-environmental behavior.
At a forum for journalists, Ellen Peters, who leads the SOJC’s Center for Science Communication Research, talked about her research into how the public perceives the danger from wildfire smoke.
Andrew DeVigal, director of the Agora Journalism Center, was featured on an episode of the Schmidt Show PDX podcast exploring the crossroads of journalism, democracy, and technology.
In a Poynter Institute commentary, Andrew DeVigal, director of the Agora Journalism Center, urged passage of a bill that would require tech companies to compensate local news sources for their content.
SOJC faculty Maxwell Foxman, media and game studies; Whitney Phillips, information politics and ethics; and Will Yurman, journalism, are among 96 UO faculty who have received promotions this spring.
In a first-of-its-kind study, Assistant Professor Alex Segrè Cohen and co-authors mapped the 32 million people in the U.S. who have limited or no access to safe drinking water and indoor plumbing.
The class of 2025 faces the highest unemployment rate in decades. But SOJC faculty help students by teaching transferrable skills and matching grads with employers, says Associate Dean Deb Morrison.
SOJC faculty and staff published an open letter to students and the UO community in The Register-Guard about the value of, and impact of ongoing attacks against, journalism and freedom of the press.
The SOJC’s Whitney Phillips, a media studies scholar and author of “The Shadow Gospel,” clears up what most people get wrong about political polarization and why it matters.
