Faculty

Damian Radcliffe, the SOJC’s Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, is one of eight University of Oregon faculty members to earn a 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award for exceptional teaching.

SOJC students and faculty use immersive media, such as augmented reality and 360 video, to share coral research in Hawaiʻi, showing how science communication connects audiences to marine conservation.

A report by the SOJC’s Agora Journalism Center has found that Oregon’s local news ecosystem has continued to decline since its first study two years ago. It also outlines efforts to reverse the trend.

Alex Segrè Cohen, an SOJC assistant professor of science and risk communication, contributed to a study revealing the U.S. regions with the largest number of egregious water quality violations.

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.