Doctoral candidate Tiffany Chao has been awarded ASIS&T’s Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship
for 2014. Sponsored by Thomson Reuters, the scholarship provides a
$1,500 cash award to support doctoral students with their dissertation
research. The award will be presented at the upcoming ASIS&T 2014
Annual Meeting in Seattle October 31 through November 5.…
Several students and faculty affiliated with CIRSS and active in the Site-Based Data Curation at Yellowstone National Park (SBDC) project will present at the 12th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in Mammoth, Wyoming, on October 6-8. The theme of the conference, which is hosted by the National Park Service, is "Crossing Boundaries in Science, Management, &…
"When you have books and music in your life, you are never alone." –Anna Mae Koval
Anna Mae Koval loved to read, especially to her six grandchildren, and her love of words, books, and ideas has left a cherished legacy to the next generation. It is in this spirit that Edward Koval and his family have established the Anna Mae Koval Scholarship Fund at GSLIS. Income from his bequest of $1 million…
GSLIS Research Scientist Ian Brooks was recently invited to
give a presentation to
the University of Illinois Board of Trustees at their September meeting. Brooks
was one of eight faculty members on campus who gave brief presentations about
their research and outreach activities.
The presentations addressed health and wellness research
from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines,…
A sense of inquiry and enterprising approach to her work makes every day interesting for taxonomist Jenny Benevento. She's found success in her field, working on a contract basis and using her time in between jobs to learn new things and see the world.
Where do you work and what is your role?
I am a taxonomist. I've worked fulltime as an employee of corporations (Sears/Kmart) and…
GSLIS faculty member Michael Twidale delivered a talk on September 9 as part of the Information Trust Institute’s Trust & Security Seminar Series. The series highlights many aspects and applications of information security. In his talk, “The Usability of Security,” Twidale discussed the need for balance between security and usability.
Abstract: Is an 8-character password more secure than…
GSLIS Professor Bertram Ludäscher will present, "Unifying Why and Why-Not Provenance using First-Order Query Evaluation Games," at the Yahoo!-DAIS (Database and Information Systems Laboratory) Seminar from 4:00-5:00 p.m. on October 7 at the Siebel Center for Computer Science (Room 216). He also will be the featured speaker at this month's CIRSS Seminar Series at GSLIS on September 19.
His…
Jon Gant, GSLIS research associate professor and director of the Center for Digital Inclusion, will moderate a panel at this week’s Telecommunication Policy Research Conference (TPRC42), held at George Mason University School of Law on September 12-14. Gant, a national leader in the areas of digital inclusion and broadband adoption, served on the program committee for the conference as well.…
For six years GSLIS has sponsored ten
Digital Divide Lectures each fall. This year, the lectures continue under a new
name: the Information City Lectures. Urbana Free Library Director
Celeste Choate opened the lecture series in early September. The lectures are hosted in conjunction
with Info City CU, a partnership between the Community Informatics Lab at GSLIS
headed by Associate…
