Assistant Professor Jana Diesner and two GSLIS doctoral students began their work on one of the University of Illinois's first grants from leading international brewer Anheuser-Busch (AB) InBev. The project team, including Diesner as principal investigator and doctoral students Jinseok Kim and Shubhanshu Mishra, will use data mining and social network analysis techniques advance techniques for…
[image1-right]As a master’s student at GSLIS, Brian Wu worked as a data analysis intern at Neustar, Inc. at the University of Illinois Research Park. Since graduating and moving into and associate data analyst position he’s enjoyed the variety of tasks that come with work in a corporate data analysis setting. He hopes to use what he’s learned at GSLIS and Neustar as he begins to further…
LEEP student Lilach Manheim will present her paper, “Information non-seeking behavior,” at the Information Behaviour Conference (ISIC), an international biennial conference to be held this year in Leeds, United Kingdom, from September 2-5. Manheim has received funding from GSLIS to travel and attend the conference.
Manheim’s paper analyzes how the decision to not seek information has…
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Illinois (GSLIS) is pleased to announce that Victoria Stodden has joined the GSLIS faculty.
A leading figure in the area of reproducibility in computational science, Stodden is exploring how can we better ensure the reliability and usefulness of scientific results in the face of increasingly sophisticated computational approaches to…
GSLIS doctoral student Noah Lenstra will serve on the concluding panel at the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) Fall Symposium, which will take place September 12 and 13 at the Illini Union. The theme of the symposium is “Oral History, Archives, and Innovation.”
Lenstra will present his work as the project director of eBlack Champaign-Urbana, a collaborative program focused on creating a…
Kate McDowell (MS ’99, PhD ’07), GSLIS associate professor,
has been appointed assistant dean for the Office of Student Affairs as of August 16, 2014.
McDowell has been serving as interim assistant dean since January and will
continue to oversee admissions, advising, career services, and recruiting while
managing Student Affairs as it expands its services and renews its focus
on student…
Assistant Professor Jana Diesner and GSLIS doctoral student Shubhanshu Mishra recently attended the ACM Web Science 2014 conference held in Bloomington, Indiana. They presented their paper, “Comparison of communication networks built from explicit and implicit data,” co-authored with Illinois engineering master’s student Amirhossein Aleyasen, as well as PhD candidate Aaron Schecter and Professor…
[image1-right]Jennifer Borchardt built on a strong background in user experience design and strategy with a master’s degree from GSLIS. Now Borchardt is a VP at a major bank and speaks professionally to peer groups and graduate students.Where do you work and what is your role?I am a group lead and vice president in the online customer experience team at Wells Fargo, one of the largest banks in…
With a book under contract, a nationwide research project underway,
a recent publication in The Library
Quarterly, and plans to teach a unique new course to students across the
country this fall, Assistant Professor Emily Knox (MS ’03) is gaining national
attention for her research in the area of intellectual freedom.
First inspired to study banned books by her mother, a former
high…
Documentary films are powerful storytelling vehicles. The best social justice films take us to places we’ve not been before, engaging our minds and our hearts as they explore some of the most significant issues of society: poverty, education, the environment, health, social equality. In ninety minutes or less, we are moved by these stories. But are we moved to action?
That is the question that…
