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The 9th annual event celebrated the exciting research conducted by PhD students by cultivating students’ academic, presentation and research communication skills.

Dr. Yotam Ophir, Associate Professor will participate in an upcoming panel organized by the International Science Reserve at the New York Academy of Sciences on April 9, 2025. 

HuffPost quoted Yotam Ophir, Associate Professor, in an article about how media outlets lack racial diversity amid the backlash following MSNBC’s canceling of Joy Reid’s show. 

Many faculty and PhD students will be attending, presenting and honored at the upcoming ICA Conference. 

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.