Faculty News

SOJC science communication researchers John Sutter, Alex Segrè Cohen, and Ben Bunquin take an interdisciplinary approach to connect science and society and help us build better connections to the natural world.  
SOJC alum Jonathan Bach ’16 will discuss his new book about the Bend housing crisis, “High Desert, Higher Costs,” with Associate Professor Brent Walth at Powell’s Books in Portland on April 29.
Lisa Peyton, an immersive and strategic communication instructor at the SOJC, led a talk on using generative AI tools for content creation at the MarTech online conference.
Nicole Dahmen, SOJC professor of media literacy and journalism, talks about how influencers and social media make some travel destinations more popular than others on the WHYY podcast Peak Travel.  
As the Dodgers play the Cubs in Tokyo, Paul Swangard, SOJC instructor of brand strategy and advertising, talks to San Francisco’s KCBS radio about the popularity of baseball in Japan.
Damian Radcliffe, SOJC Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, talks with the Your News Biz newsletter about his research with the Agora Journalism Center and trends in local news production.
News stories that empower readers to see their own role in solutions to big problems like climate change are more inclined to take action, a new study by SOJC researchers has found.
SOJC instructor Camilla Mortensen will join alum Ken Doctor of Lookout Eugene-Springfield and Chris Lehman of KLCC on a Eugene City Club panel to discuss the state of local electronic media on February 18.
Journalists across the Global South are adopting AI, but they often do so without editorial policies or sufficient training, according to a report by SOJC professor of practice Damian Radcliffe.
The second season of the podcast “One Cool Story: Tales from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication” features four interesting people connected to the school.