Professor Dan Schiller, who has been a member of the GSLIS faculty since 2001, will retire from the University of Illinois on May 31. "GSLIS has been my home for thirteen years. The cooperative spirit of the School, which staff, faculty members, and school administrators actively create day to day, has been an inspiration to me. Going forward, I plan to pursue my research in the political economy…

Assistant Professor Nicole Cooke, Assistant Professor Jana Diesner, and Senior Research Scientist Martin Wolske will participate in the International Communication Association’s 64th Annual Conference May 22-26. The theme of the 2014 conference, which will be held in Seattle, is “Communication and ‘the Good Life.’” Cooke will present at the preconference session, “Sharing: A Keyword…

Assistant Professor Carol Tilley will deliver a keynote address at the 2014 Comics & Medicine Conference on June 27 at the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus in Baltimore, Maryland. This multidisciplinary conference will bring together healthcare professionals, artists, scholars, comics enthusiasts, and students to explore applications of graphic medicine—the use of comics in healthcare and medical…

[image1-right]GSLIS affiliated faculty member Safiya U. Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12) has been honored with the 2014 Faculty Scholar Award by the University of Illinois Women’s Resources Center (WRC). This award recognizes scholarship that contributes to the advancement of feminism, promotes justice and equity, and supports anti-oppression education. Noble was honored for her work to reveal the role of…

Professor Alistair Black gave an invited talk at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies on April 24 as part of the school’s Social Studies of Information Research Group speaker series. His presentation, “Information History: A Subject in Search of an Identity,” addressed the “fractured identity” of information history and its emergence in the field of library and…

Linda C. Smith, professor and associate dean for academic programs, will participate in a panel discussion at the Access to Success Colloquium on April 28. Smith, fellow Illinois faculty members, and the colloquium’s keynote speaker will discuss the future of online graduate education.The colloquium is part of the ongoing Access to Success (A2S) research project, which works to develop strategies…

The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC recently acquired for their permanent collection two pieces of art created by GSLIS adjunct faculty member Bea Nettles.

Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke’s diverse research interests and experiences as an iSchool faculty member have taken her to an array of events this month. She will speak at three events in April, discussing topics from social justice to the roles of LIS faculty.On April 5 Cooke participated in a panel at the New Directions in Information Fluency conference at Augustana College. As part of a…

In his newly published book, Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Époque, GSLIS Professor Emeritus W. Boyd Rayward has assembled a collection of essays by international scholars exploring the globalization of culture and information in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Published by Ashgate, the book analyzes the dynamics of…

Assistant Professor Carol Tilley will discuss her research into comics and comics history at two upcoming events in April. She will deliver an invited talk titled, "When Comics Almost Died: Readers, Censors, and Innovation," at Holy Cross College’s Arts Day on April 11. Arts Day is an annual event held in celebration of the spirit of art and creativity. Tilley will be one of two…