Doctoral candidate Noah Lenstra (MS ’09, CAS ’11) was recently honored with the University of Illinois Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement. One of six award recipients for the 2014-2015 academic year, Lenstra was recognized for his work in community informatics, specifically in Champaign and East St. Louis.
Lenstra has worked closely with Champaign’s African-American community to…
Associate Professor Victoria Stodden has been appointed to the International Mathematical Union’s (IMU) Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC). Her four-year term will span 2015 through 2018.
The CEIC was created by the IMU Executive Committee in 1998 in response to changes in mathematics practice and publishing resulting from the proliferation of Internet-based…
The GSLIS Office of Advancement is happy to announce that the School's first G. Edward Evans Minority Student Scholarship will be awarded for the Fall 2015 semester. Dr. Evans's (PhD '69) goal in making this gift was to facilitate increased enrollment of underrepresented groups in LIS education and the information professions.
In addition to making a substantial personal gift to the School,…
Recently, business partners at the quarterly GSLIS Corporate Roundtable (CRT) event had the opportunity to learn more about master’s-level student projects that have application within the corporate sector. Directly following the CRT discussion about big data, seven master’s students made presentations about their work to representatives from a variety of companies including CRT sponsors…
Look beyond the classroom walls, says Eric Phetteplace, and you’ll find there are lots of ways to expand your educational experience (and you might even get a job while you’re at it). Practicum and work experiences, attending conferences, networking, and getting involved in professional organizations are all great ways to do that. For more tips on working in LIS tech, look for posts by…
J. Stephen Downie, professor and associate dean for research, will deliver the opening keynote address at an international colloquium titled, “Scholarly Networks and the Emerging Platforms for Humanities Research & Publication.”
The colloquium is hosted jointly by the Virtual Humanities Lab in the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University, the Center for Digital Scholarship in the…
This week the University of Illinois celebrates both Graduate Student Appreciation Week and International Week. At GSLIS, we are proud of all our students and our international connections, including faculty, research fellows, scholars-in-residence, and students like Thomas Mukonde, who hails from Zambia.
Why did you decide to pursue an LIS degree?
I decided to do an LIS degree because I…
Assistant Professor Emily Knox will speak at the upcoming conference, Outlawed: The Naked Truth About Censored Literature for Young People, to be held April 10-12 at California State University, Fresno (Fresno State). The conference, hosted by the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, a department of the Henry Madden Library at Fresno State, explores the role censorship plays…
Zahra Mohaghegh, GSLIS-affiliated faculty member and assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering (NPRE), has been honored with the 2015 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research from the College of Engineering at Illinois.
The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) and GSLIS are pleased to announce a partnership to offer an online graduate-level course on intellectual freedom for library and information science (LIS) students around the country. The course, in its second year, will be taught by GSLIS faculty member Emily Knox and is a project of FTRF’s Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund.
“Intellectual Freedom and…
