Friday October 9, 2026

Reception, Film Screening, and Panel Discussion: "The Librarians"

Join us for a screening of "The Librarians." Special guest, Becky Calzada, a librarian featured in the film, will be present after the screening for a fireside chat with Interim Dean Emily Knox, followed by a live audience Q&A.

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• Tuesday

  September 29

  Graduate School Information Night

  5:00 - 6:00 PM

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  Internship spotlight: Anchorage Museum Library and Archives

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  Beckman announces 2026 research seed grant project

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  Nitin Verma selected as a Public Voices fellow

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  Dong Wang receives grant for human-centered AI project

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• Wednesday

  September 30

  iSchool Discovery Day: Unpack Your Future in Information Sciences

  1:00 - 4:00 PM

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Other recent news

iSchool researchers present at CSCW 2026

October 1 2026

Associate Professor Yun Huang, as well as PhD students and iSchool affiliate faculty, will present their research at the 29th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2026), which will be held Oct. 10–14 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The online portion of the conference takes place Oct. 1. 

Diane Kelly to deliver the 2026 Otlet Lecture

September 30 2026

Diane Kelly, the Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor in the School of Data and Information Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will deliver the 2026 Otlet Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 7. The lecture will begin at 2 p.m. in Room 126, 501 E. Daniel Street, and on Zoom. A reception will follow. Admission is open to all.

iSchool researchers presenting at HCOMP 2026

September 30 2026

Professor and Associate Dean for Research Dong Wang and students from his Social Sensing and Intelligence Lab are presenting two papers on information integrity at the 2026 ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment (HCOMP 2026). The conference takes place Sept. 27–30 in Alexandria, Virginia.

Get to know: Nicky Martin, open publishing applications specialist

September 29 2026

It’s been a big year for Nicky Martin (MSLIS '26). After graduating in May, he spent the summer as a junior fellow at the Library of Congress, which ended just in time for him to start a new position at the Claremont Colleges.