The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois has named Assistant Professor Jana Diesner a Faculty Fellow and provided seed funding for her project, “Predictive Modeling for Impact Assessment.” Diesner was one of thirteen faculty members selected for the honor.
Diesner will work closely with NCSA scientists on the project, which builds on her work…
Illinois alumnus Nama Budhathoki recognized the need for better documentation of Nepal’s roads and resources before disaster struck there last month. The former GSLIS student and a small team of volunteers began mapping Nepal in 2013, after Budhathoki saw the importance of accurate maps following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010.
"Navigation in Kathmandu [was…
GSLIS master’s student Jhani Miller is the winner of the 2015 Emerging Leader Award given by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center. Each year, the center recognizes achievements made in a number of noteworthy areas by members of the LGBTQ campus community, including students, faculty, and staff.
Miller was nominated for the Emerging Leader Award by GSLIS Senior…
The Library of Congress, in conjunction with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has named five members to the 2015 class of the National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) program. Among those named is Jessica Tieman, who will earn her master's degree from GSLIS this spring.
The NDSR program offers recent master’s degree graduates/doctoral candidates in specialized fields—library…
Mark W. Sorensen (MS ’98), official Macon County historian, received the Illinois State Historical Society (ISHS) Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, April 25, in a ceremony in the House of Representatives’ Chamber of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. The award was presented during the annual ISHS awards presentation to the state’s best history teachers, authors, and museum…
GSLIS master’s student Lindsay Shapray has been selected to participate in the highly competitive 2015 Library of Congress (LoC) Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program. She will spend ten weeks working full time on-site in Washington, DC, at the LoC’s John W. Kluge Center, which works to bring together scholars and political leaders.
The Kluge Center is a great fit for Shapray, who has…
Assistant Professor Elizabeth Hoiem will speak at the second Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood Conference, which will be held May 8-9 at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. The conference is hosted by the multidisciplinary Institute for Child and Youth Studies and will address three themes:
Appropriations of childhood
Is work the opposite of play?
Does humanitarian aid…
Professor Michael Twidale will speak this Thursday at a conference hosted by the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP) at Illinois. The conference, “Entrepreneurial Heritage and the Information Economy,” will draw local and international scholars to discuss the trend of managing world heritage sites as economically productive resources and the role of cultural heritage…
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…
