GSLIS will host 14 prospective students on March 15 as part of the campus-wide Community of Scholars (COS) Campus Visit Program. The program brings admitted graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds to campus to meet with their academic programs and give them the opportunity to network with current and prospective students. GSLIS will welcome four doctoral students and ten master’s…
At the recent iConference, a group of GSLIS students and faculty earned an Honorable Mention award for their poster, "Identifying Claims in Social Science Literature." The group included doctoral student Shameem Ahmed, Associate
Professor Catherine Blake, Assistant Professor Kate Williams,
doctoral student Noah Lenstra, and master’s student Qiyuan
Liu.The poster presented initial findings from…
Seven
GSLIS doctoral students received support this fall to participate in the
iSchool Doctoral Student Exchange Program, an initiative led by the iSchools Consortium and funded by the
Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The program
was developed as a way to facilitate relationships within the iSchools
community, provide opportunities to present research, and…
GSLIS
master’s student Lucas McKeever recently received an Acorn
Scholarship
for volunteerism and community activism from the Acorn Equality Fund, a grassroots
organization that supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered students and their
allies in downstate Illinois. The
$3,000 scholarship was presented to McKeever at the 14th Annual Acorn Equality
Fund Breakfast on December 1,…
Doctoral student Nic Weber spent the past summer working at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) as part of their Advanced Studies Fellowships Program. The Advanced Studies Program (ASP) at NCAR allows graduate students and post-docs to work with NCAR scientists and use NCAR’s high performance computing facilities to pursue topics important to their future career. Typically, this…
Six GSLIS students are recipients of the 2012 Sylvia Murphy Williams Scholarship Fund, and all are recipients of the Spectrum Scholarship awarded by the American Library Association. GSLIS is very proud of these students—be sure to read their profiles in the ILA Reporter to learn more about each award winner!Anthony BishopLiza BookerChristina NhekThomas PadillaCharlotte RohJose Miguel Ruiz
GSLIS doctoral student Sarah T. Roberts delivered the inaugural
lecture for the Illinois Institute of Technology’s newly
formed lecture series on digital humanities, which was held on September 21.Her lecture, “Digital Humanity: Foregrounding Human
Traces in Technological Systems (and Why We Should Care),” addressed practical
applications of technology and ethical issues involved in seemingly…
GSLIS student Karen Smith-Cox has been invited to attend the 2012 School Library Journal Leadership Summit in Philadelphia on October 26 and 27. This year’s summit, “Advocacy and the E-volution: Creating Stronger Schools Through Stronger Libraries,” will focus on discussions of Common Core State Standards and the role of libraries in fostering and empowering innovation in schools.
School…
Three GSLIS students have been selected as 2012 LAMP Scholars. LAMP (LIS Access Midwest Program) is a regional initiative that encourages students from historically and statistically underrepresented groups to pursue careers in library and information science. LAMP provides scholarships, mentoring, and opportunities for professional development to students and also hosts an annual summer…
First-year GSLIS students Karen Barton and Tracy Drake participated in this year’s Summer Pre-doctoral Institute (SPI) at
the University of Illinois. SPI is a campus-wide
orientation program that accepts incoming graduate students from U.S.
populations that are underrepresented in campus graduate programs. During the
eight-week program, students enroll in an independent study, participate in…