Saturday November 22, 2025

Fall break begins

No classes will be held during the Fall Break, November 22-November 30.

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  Cultural immersion fellowship prepares Pellecer for future in technology policy

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• Thursday

  November 20

  Accessibility in Libraries with DRES

  2:00 - 3:00 PM

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  Jiang defends dissertation

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  Vaez Afshar named APT Student Scholar

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  Paper by He's lab honored at ICCV 2025 workshop

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• Wednesday

  November 19

  The AI Disruption Speaker Series: Katie Atkinson

  9:00 - 10:00 AM

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Other recent news

PhD student Meng Li wins iSchool T-shirt design contest

November 19 2025

PhD student Meng Li's research focuses on neuro-symbolic AI, with an emphasis on using syntactic analysis and large language models (LLMs) to understand Python notebooks. This cutting-edge research keeps Li "super busy" for much of the term, but in August, she took a brief break from her work and shifted her focus to designing the winning entry for the iSchool T-shirt contest.

While the idea of the design "just popped into my mind," Li has been thinking about the contest for years.

Kennelly joins the iSchool’s administrative support team

November 12 2025

Quinn Kennelly joined the iSchool on November 3 as an office support specialist. She will serve as the primary receptionist on the fourth floor of the iSchool building at 614 E. Daniel Street and will also provide administrative support to Director of Informatics Programs Lisa Bievenue and the Informatics team. 

iSchool well represented at ASIS&T 2025

November 10 2025

iSchool faculty, staff, and students will participate in the 88th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), which will be held on November 14-18 in Arlington, Virginia. ASIS&T will also host a Virtual Satellite Meeting on December 11-12. 

Kang makes sense of too much information

November 5 2025

As an MSIM student at the iSchool, Zhanchen Kang is passionate about helping people make sense of the overwhelming amount of information in their daily lives. Kang earned an undergraduate degree in information systems in China before coming to the University of Illinois to further explore how technology, data, and people intersect.