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On December 11, 2018, the Department of Communication hosted a delegation from the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University. The visiting scholars, led by Dr. Yu, Executive Dean of BNU’s School of Journalism & Communication, discussed opportunities for international collaboration and cooperation with faculty from UC Davis. A number of similarities between the two programs were identified, including graduate programs of similar sizes and emphasis.

Six of the 32 graduate students of our program have accepted intriguing placements, reaching from universities in Singapore, Austria, U.S., and China, to Facebook in neighboring Silicon Valley.

The acknowledgment was given to an interview with Prof. Hilbert, an internationally recognized expert in digital networks, titled "Obama and Trump used Big Data to wash brains", which was published on January 19, 2017.

Congratulations to Ke "Maddie" Huang, Kimmiko James, Jeffrey Warner, Alejandra Amparo, Sagar Gupta, and Jorge Peña for receiving funding for their Tech for Social Good proposal.

The Department of Communication is honored to host Dr.

Throughout 2017, Prof. Hilbert gave a series of extensive interviews and key-note speeches about digital development in Latin America, covering topics from the risk big data poses to democracy, to the opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence for developing countries.

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The UCD Department of Communication has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the College of Communication, Yonsei University.

This is the first official international partnership in history of the Department of Communication at UC Davis. Under this partnership, the Department will collaborate with Yonsei University in student exchange, faculty exchange, research collaborations and joint seminars.

Now Ruiz, who earned her bachelor's and doctoral degrees at UC Davis, is among faculty who are telling their stories as part of a UC program to connect first-generation students with professors who have walked in their shoes.