Research

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.

The Department of Information Science has recently earned several grants and awards from organizations both on and off campus.

William Aspray and James Cortada just published their book, "From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking" (Springer). PhD students Anthony Pinter , Aaron Jiang , Katie Gach , and Jim Dykes , along with Melanie Sidwell (Media Studies) and Prof. Jed Brubaker had a paper titled "'Am I Never Going to...

Prof. Robin Burke was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for the project "Realizing Fairness in Recommender Systems: Intersectionality, Tools, Explanation". The project will study how concepts of fairness developed for machine learning can be extended to personalized recommender systems in such areas as philanthropy, news and...

Roberto Azaretto recently received a PhD in music composition from SUNY in Buffalo, New York. Two of his works have been performed in Buffalo this year: Eigengrau , for four instruments, was premiered in April by the Australian Ensemble Elision and Verfremdungen, and M (2) was premiered by the Hayley-Laufer...

Associate Professor Reece Auguiste presented a paper on African archives and multimedia arts, and conducted a seminar on the essay film and African documentary practice at the University of Witwatersrand's RE-Framing Africa: Restructuring the Self conference in South Africa. He presented work in the On Film series at the University...

Assistant Professor Stephanie Spray is in postproduction for her film Edge of Time , which won a Sundance Institute and Science Sandbox grant. She is in production for another film, Patagonia Park , which won a Catapult Film Fund grant. She also contributed a chapter to the Routledge Handbook of...

Assistant Professor Erin Espelie ––along with Natural Hazards Center Director Lori Peek, Art and Art History Assistant Professor Brianne Cohen, and Director of the Center for Native and Indigenous Studies Andrew Cowell––has been awarded a $225,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a Sawyer Seminar at CU...

In February, PhD student Niki Tulk presented her multimedia installation piece, Ex Cutis Libra , at the CMCI media space. The work explores poetics around the ethics, archives and material process of binding books in human skin. She successfully defended her IAWP dissertation, "Trauma, Text and the Female Body: a...