Benjamin Johnson, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Advertising associate professor and interim director of the STEM Translational Communication Center, will join an editors’ panel and give a research presentation at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile) in Santiago, Chile, from Jan. 15-19. Johnson will participate…
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Benjamin Johnson, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Advertising associate professor and interim director of the STEM Translational Communication Center, will give a research presentation and workshop at Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from Oct. 3-8. On Oct. 4, Johnson will present his research, “Relatable, Independent,…
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The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) today announced that Advertising Associate Professor Benjamin Johnson has been named the interim director of the College’s STEM Translational Communication Center (STCC), effective immediately. Johnson’s research is focused on why and how people select and share messages in new media…
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Carrie A. Miller, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of Public Relations in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, has received a $166,000 two-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to study how young adults can help increase colorectal cancer screening in rural settings. The project…
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Elizabeth Flood-Grady, visiting assistant professor in the STEM Translational Communication Center at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications and manager of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute Recruitment Center, is the recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program (LRP) grant from the Health…
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Janice Krieger, director of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications STEM Translational Communication Center, will serve as principal investigator on a $3.5 million U01 grant from the National Cancer Institute to use virtual human technology to increase racial and ethnic minority representation in cancer clinical trials. The…
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The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications today announced that Dr. Carrie Miller will join the College this fall as Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Relations and will be playing an active role in the College’s STEM Translational Communication Center and the UF Health Cancer Center.…
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Matching Black patients with a Black virtual clinician may increase patient willingness to get screened for colon cancer, according to a new study. The findings by Eric Cooks, postdoctoral fellow for the STEM Translational Communication Center (STCC) at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications and Janice Krieger,…
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Janice Krieger, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications STEM Translational Communication Center director, and a multidisciplinary group of UF researchers were honored for their project ALEX. It was named one of the seven innovations of year at the 4th Annual Standing InnOvation awards event presented by UF Innovate.…
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UF researchers have collaborated on “Engaging Institutional Stakeholders to Develop and Implement Guidelines for Recruiting Participants in Research Studies Using Social Media: Mixed Methods, Multi-Phase Process” published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research on Aug. 10. In the study, the authors aimed to provide replicable procedures for developing and…
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Eric Cooks, Ph.D. 2020, a post-doctoral associate in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications STEM Translational Communication Center (STCC), is featured in “When Patients Engage with Similar Others, Health Outcomes Improve and Other Conversations about Health Disparities,” an episode of the podcast Revise & Resubmit hosted by…
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Janice Krieger, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications STEM Translational Communication Center director, and a team of researchers has been awarded a National Institute on Aging (NIA) grant to use the virtual health assistant ALEX (Agent Leveraging Empathy for eXams) to recruit older adult minorities for clinical trials.…
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