Several GSLIS affiliates presented this week at HASTAC 2015, the annual conference of the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory. Held at Michigan State University May 28-29, HASTAC 2015 featured presentations relating to the theme, "Art and Science of Digital Humanities."
GSLIS postdoctoral research associate Sayan Bhattacharyya presented an interactive session…
Each year, GSLIS recognizes a group of outstanding students for their achievement in academics as well as a number of attributes that contribute to professional success. The following student awards were presented at the GSLIS Convocation on May 17, 2015.
Bryce Allen Award for Reference Services
Presented to Victoria L. Volckman by Professor and Associate Dean Linda Smith:
Victoria L.…
Professor Michael Twidale and doctoral candidate Aiko Takazawa spoke on May 14 at the Workshop on Social and Collaborative Information Seeking hosted by the Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University. The workshop brought together multidisciplinary scholars, including innovators in social and collaborative information seeking, with the goal of defining research challenges in the field.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Nushrat Khan, who hails from Bangladesh.
Why did you decide to pursue an LIS degree?
Prior to starting graduate school in…
