Associate Professor Kate McDowell will lead the workshop, "Using Storytelling to Persuade and Lead," for the Municipal Clerks of Illinois Institute and Academy on October 17. McDowell was invited by former senator Richard J. Winkel, Jr., who serves as director of the Office of Public Leadership at the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs.The workshop will introduce…
Update: Organisciak, Teevan, Dumais, Miller, and Kalai received the Notable Paper Award at HCOMP 2014 for the following research paper.
The New Scientist recently featured research on crowdsourcing conducted by doctoral candidate Peter Organisciak. The article, “Online crowd can guess what you want to watch or buy,” highlighted research conducted by Organisciak and a team of researchers from…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Masooda Bashir is hosting renowned
privacy scholar Daniel J. Solove when he visits campus to deliver a public
talk, “Privacy, the Consent Dilemma, and the Problem of Defining Harm,” on
October 14 at 3:00 p.m. The lecture is part of the Information Trust
Institute’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Bashir also serves as assistant
professor in the Information Trust…
Halfway through her two-year term as president of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Associate Professor Lori Kendall has been busy making plans for the group’s annual conference, which will be held October 22-24 in Daegu, South Korea.
Internet Research 15 (IR15): Boundaries and Intersections will draw academics, students, and other researchers from around the world to this…
Associate Professor Lori Kendall, Associate Professor Jerome McDonough, and doctoral candidate Rhiannon Bettivia presented their research recently at the Digital Memories 5th Global Conference, held at Mansfield College, Oxford University, at the end of September.
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GSLIS is pleased to announce that Victor Jones, Jr. has joined the Student Affairs team as a visiting recruiting specialist. In this newly created position, Jones will play an active role in the School’s ongoing efforts to recruit the best and brightest new students, serving as a primary resource for prospective students and as an ambassador to visiting applicants. He also will work to build…
“Data-Driven Teaching & Learning: Lessons Learned from Research” is the theme for this year’s campus Summit on Online Education. Now in its fourth year, the Summit is designed to provide a forum for educators and learners, both on and off campus, to meet and discuss topics of interest. The event will take place on October 22 at the Illini Union and will be streamed live for remote…
Associate Professor Carol Tilley has been studying comics since she was just a child, when she could be found each Saturday morning at her local drug store perusing the week’s new titles. She couldn’t have predicted then that she would become one of the nation’s leading experts and a popular speaker on comics.
Before beginning his studies at GSLIS, Jarrett Dapier already had several years of experience working at the Evanston Public Library (EPL), where he developed and implemented creative programs to engage teens in reading and self-expression. Last summer, while in his role at EPL, he worked with the Dajae Coleman Foundation to implement programming centered around How Long Will I Cry?, a history of…
