ASPEN Lab

Project ASPEN is a collaboration between a team of researchers from Rutgers University and the National Alliance on Mental Illness New Jersey (NAMI NJ) that is funded by a grant from the William T. Grant Foundation (Active Surveillance of Policy Ecosystems and Networks (ASPEN) to Enhance Brokering of Research Evidence into State Policymaking). This three-year project will develop and implement an intervention to facilitate policymakers’ access to and use of research evidence that is relevant to adolescent mental health policy, specifically implementation of universal adolescent mental health screening in New Jersey public schools.

Center for Communication and Health Issues

CHI members participate in a comprehensive environmental management approach to reducing dangerous drinking among our students. CHI members came together initially to study dangerous drinking on the campus and design education and treatment programs addressing issues of alcohol use among college students. They have also conducted research on cigarette smoking and nicotine addiction as well as participated in projects to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of in-person and online brief intervention.

HCI Lab for Health & Sustainability

HCI Lab for Health & Sustainability (HCIL) is an interdisciplinary research lab within the school of communication and information at Rutgers University. They study human behaviors, create new computing technologies, and evaluate the use of new systems in real world settings to improve the quality of everyday life.

Rutgers University Conversation Analysis Lab

Rutgers University Conversation Analysis Lab (RUCAL) brings together scholars with an interest in understanding the workings of social interaction across a wide variety of social settings and contexts. RUCAL faculty and students examine everyday communicative activities as they are captured in field recordings of naturally occurring interactions. We study talk-in-interaction (in English, Russian, Spanish, Mandarin, and other languages) among friends and family members as well as in institutional settings, such as

SC&I and SHP IAPP-Greece Initiative

This joint initiative between two schools—the School of Communication & Information and the School of Health Professions—working together with Rutgers Global aims to Advance Health Communication Research, Education, and Practice Across the Health Professions in Greece and the U.S. This vision is pursued through a broad array of activities and in close collaboration with institutional partners in Greece. The initiative was developed in the context of their participation in the International Academic Partnerships Program – Greece (IAPP-Greece); an academic incubator program sponsored in 2020 by the Greek Ministry of Education, the U.S. Department of Education, the Institute of International Education, and the Fulbright Foundation, among other organizations, designed to promote international collaboration between U.S. and Greek institutions of higher education.