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

Course partnership leads to new escape room for IGB's Mobile Learning Lab

November 21 2025

Each fall, an interdisciplinary team of students at the University of Illinois comes together to create an escape room. The class project is the culmination of a collaboration between two courses: Designing Immersive Adventures – Escape Rooms (Theatre 402/Game Studies and Design 490) and Makerspace – Escape Rooms (Informatics 418). 

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.