Wednesday November 5, 2025

2025 Research Showcase

The Research Showcase shares human-centered, interdisciplinary research through a keynote speech and a series of short presentations and posters. 

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  Wang appointed to Autism Data Privacy Advisory Group

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• Wednesday

  October 22

  The AI Disruption Speaker Series: Rishi Bommasani

  9:00 - 10:00 AM

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  Get to know Manas Godha, growth and strategy lead

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  Craig named Illinois Library Luminary

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  Student Spotlight: Daria Meshcheriakova

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• Friday

  October 24

  Speed Friending

  5:30 - 6:30 PM

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Other recent news

iSchool researchers present at ILA 2025

October 14 2025

School faculty, staff, and students will present their research at the 2025 Illinois Library Association (ILA) Annual Conference, which will be held on October 14–16 in Rosemont. The theme of this year's conference is "You Belong Here."

Library Trends examines genre classifications in latest issue

October 9 2025

The iSchool at Illinois is pleased to announce the publication of Library Trends 74 (1), titled “Genres and Their Uses in Cultural Documentation: Exploring Generic Access to Creative Worlds.” Pushing back against the notion of genres as “inferior” classifications due to their ambiguity, this issue instead explores how genre classifications facilitate access to creative works in libraries and beyond.

iSchool researchers present at CSCW 2025

October 9 2025

Several faculty, students, and recent grads will present their research at the 28th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2025), which will be held October 18–22 in Bergen, Norway. The online portion of the conference will be held on October 10. 

Get to know Jade Carthans, BSIS student

October 8 2025

Jade Carthans is interested in how human-centered design, machine learning, and data analytics can come together to solve critical problems that impact organizations and individuals. She gained firsthand experience in these areas through internships with Microsoft and State Farm.