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Dr. Mark Frank will be a Keynote Speaker at the WCFEE conference in Portugal on October 11. 

Yotam Ophir, Associate Professor was quoted by NBC News about the difficulty in circulating warnings before natural disasters. 

Associate Professor Yotam Ophir was featured by Science News as one of the "10 early-career scientists tackling some of the biggest problems of today".

Helen Wang featured on NPR to promote new book on how society talks about environmentalism.  

COM's Helen Wang, PhD has co-edited a book on storytelling strategies. 

Not all mass shooters communicate their reasons for committing atrocities, but a significant proportion do, and those who shared any motivation whatsoever were more likely to kill or injure more people than those who did not state their motivations, according to Lindsay Hahn.

Melanie Green was quoted in an article reporting the six things businesses should remember to be an effective storyteller to influence behavior.

Yini was quoted in an aryiel entitled, 'Dark Brandon popping off: is Joe Biden's 'cringe' TikTok helping or hurting him?'

When presidential candidates are the source of election year disinformation.

“Our study reveals that Trump’s ability to attract news attention through social media is not predicated on a specific platform, but on his ability to engage social media users,” says Yini Zhang, assistant professor of communication, College of Arts and Sciences, and the paper’s lead author.