March 15 - 23, 2025

Spring Break

Spring Break begins on March 15, 2025 through March 23, 2025. 

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  Carboni joins the iSchool faculty

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• Tuesday

  March 11

  IS 400 Colloquium: Smirity Kaushik

  3:30 - 4:20 PM

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  Chan to present "Predatory Data" work at named lectures

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  Roberts grateful for scholarship support to pursue youth services librarianship

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  Get to know Terence Frank Njekeu, senior operation strategy analyst

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• Monday

  March 10

  Student Affairs Graduate Employment Webinar Series: Getting Started at the iSchool

  5:00 - 6:00 PM

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Other recent news

Wei receives Amazon Post Internship Fellowship

March 12 2025

PhD student Tianxin Wei has been awarded an Amazon Post Internship Fellowship, which will provide $20,000 in unrestricted funds and $20,000 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits to support Wei's research with his advisor, Professor Jingrui He. For the past two summers, Wei has served as an applied scientist intern at Amazon in Palo Alto, California. He has been part of a team that is working on search query understanding within Amazon apps and services, as well as developing shopping foundation models.

iSchool participation in iConference 2025

March 11 2025

The following iSchool faculty and students will participate in iConference 2025, which will be held virtually from March 11-14 and physically from March 18-22 in Bloomington, Indiana. The theme of this year's conference is "Living in an AI-gorithmic world."

Youth-AI-Safety named a winning team in international hackathon

March 6 2025

A team of researchers from the SALT (Social Computing Systems) Lab has been selected as a winner in an international hackathon hosted by the Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence. The LLM Agents MOOC Hackathon brought together over 3,000 students, researchers, and practitioners from 127 countries to build and showcase innovative work in large language model (LLM) agents, grow the AI agent community, and advance LLM agent technology.

New home for the Center for Children’s Books

February 27 2025

The Center for Children's Books (CCB) at the iSchool is a crossroads for critical inquiry, professional training, and educational outreach related to youth-focused resources, literature, and librarianship. The CCB houses a non-circulating research collection of children’s and young adult books, with emphasis placed on books published within the last two years. The CCB recently moved to a new home in the iSchool building at 501 East Daniel Street.