Faculty

Professor Emerita Lauren Kessler and Isaac Wasserman ’23 won first place for Project Reporting in the Best of the West Awards. Josephine Woolington ’13 won first place in Long Form Feature Writing.

Ellen Peters, director of the Center for Science Communication Research, outlined practical strategies to improve how clinicians communicate numbers in routine care. Her findings were published in JAMA.

Professor of Practice David Ewald and the Washington Post’s Jason Rezaian, who co-teach the SOJC’s first-of-its-kind Hostage Diplomacy course, and three of their students discussed the class on OPB’s Think Out Loud.

Peter Laufer, the SOJC’s James Wallace Chair Professor of Journalism, was profiled in the magazine of Leeds Metropolitan University, where he received his PhD in cultural studies in 2009.

Daniel Pimentel, director of the SOJC’s Oregon Reality Lab, participated in Hackathon Sulawesi aboard the OceanXplorer to help answer the question: How do we transform ocean discovery into personal action?

In the Washington Post, Whitney Phillips, the SOJC’s associate professor of information politics and media ethics, said Trump is severely testing his supporters’ loyalty with military strikes on Iran.

Journalism Professor Peter Laufer was interviewed by the German literary magazine Edit on how to deal with the speed and overabundance of news consumption.

Ellen Peters, the SOJC’s director of the Center for Science Communication Research, was quoted in Medscape about how physicians can avoid miscommunication when interacting with patients.