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Walter W. Powell
Jacks Family Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Communication, of Sociology and of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPlease go to my webpage for more info on research:
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Nilam Ram
Professor of Communication and of Psychology
BioNilam Ram studies the dynamic interplay of psychological and media processes and how they change from moment-to-moment and across the life span.
Nilam’s research grows out of a history of studying change. After completing his undergraduate study of economics, he worked as a currency trader, frantically tracking and trying to predict the movement of world markets as they jerked up, down and sideways. Later, he moved on to the study of human movement, kinesiology, and eventually psychological processes - with a specialization in longitudinal research methodology. Generally, Nilam studies how short-term changes (e.g., processes such as learning, information processing, emotion regulation, etc.) develop across the life span, and how longitudinal study designs contribute to generation of new knowledge. Current projects include examinations of age-related change in children’s self- and emotion-regulation; patterns in minute-to-minute and day-to-day progression of adolescents’ and adults’ emotions; and change in contextual influences on well-being during old age. He is developing a variety of study paradigms that use recent developments in data science and the intensive data streams arriving from social media, mobile sensors, and smartphones to study change at multiple time scales. -
Byron Reeves
Paul C. Edwards Professor of Communication and Professor, by courtesy, of Education
BioByron Reeves, PhD, is the Paul C. Edwards Professor of Communication at Stanford and
Professor (by courtesy) in the Stanford School of Education. Byron has a long history of
experimental research on the psychological processing of media, and resulting responses and
effects. He has studied how media influence attention, memory and emotional responses and has
applied the research in the areas of speech dialogue systems, interactive games, advanced
displays, social robots, and autonomous cars. Byron has recently launched (with Stanford
colleagues Nilam Ram and Thomas Robinson) the Human Screenome Project (Nature, 2020),
designed to collect moment-by-moment changes in technology use across applications, platforms
and screens.
At Stanford, Byron has been Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information,
and Co-Director of the H-STAR Institute (Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced
Research), and he was the founding Director of mediaX at Stanford, a university-industry
program launched in 2001 to facilitate discussion and research at the intersection of academic
and applied interests. Byron has worked at Microsoft Research and with several technology
startups, and has been involved with media policy at the FTC, FCC, US Congress and White
House. He is an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association, and recipient of ICA Fellows book award for The Media Equation (with Prof. Clifford Nass), and the Novim Foundation Epiphany Science and Society Award. Byron’s PhD in Communication is from Michigan State University. -
Damaso Reyes
Graduate, Communication
BioDamaso Reyes is a distinguished editor, journalist and photographer with a career spanning three decades.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he embarked on his journalism journey as a teenager, motivated by what he saw as a lack of representation in the industry.
Since 1996, Damaso has been a dedicated contributor to the New York Amsterdam News, where he currently serves as the Executive and Investigative Editor. His tenure at this historic publication underscores his commitment to amplifying Black voices and addressing critical issues affecting marginalized communities.
He founded the Blacklight, the award winning first investigative unit at a legacy Black newspaper in an effort to both expand the Amsterdam News’ ability to serve its community and to provide opportunities for journalists of color who are all too often shut out of doing investigative work.
Throughout his career, Damaso’s work has been news organizations, including The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Der Spiegel, the Miami Herald, Forbes, and The Irish Times. His assignments have taken him across the globe to countries including Rwanda, Iraq, Indonesia, Tanzania, and various regions in the United States and Europe, reflecting his versatility and dedication to uncovering stories that matter.
Damaso’s photographic contributions are showcased in notable books including “Black: A Celebration of a Culture” and “Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War,” highlighting his ability to capture profound human experiences through his lens.
His contributions as an editor and journalist have been recognized by numerous awards, grants and fellowships, including: a 2026 John S. Knight journalism fellowship at Stanford University; the 2024 NABJ Ida B. Wells Award; a 2024 NABJ Salute to Excellence Award; a 2024 Deadline Club Award for Digital Video Reporting; Arthur F. Burns and Holbrooke Fellowships from the International Center for Journalists; a Knight-Luce Fellowship from the USC Annenberg School of Journalism; an Immigration Reporting Fellowship from the French American Foundation; and grants from the Solutions Journalism Network and the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Damaso is also a Fulbright specialist and an accomplished artist who has exhibited his photographs and multimedia work in over a dozen group and solo exhibitions in Germany, Austria, Ireland, Spain, Turkey and the United States. He was the first Fulbirght artist in residence at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier and a fellow at Germany’s Akademie Schloss Solitude.
