Thursday October 10, 2024

iSchool webstore closes

Our webstore featuring iSchool T-shirts, sweatshirts, quarter-zip fleece shirts, and polos will close on 11:59 p.m. on October 10. 

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  Kemboi receives international award for digital preservation work

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• Thursday

  October 3

  Coffee & Chaos Corner

  7:00 - 8:00 PM

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  Get to know Chloe Miller, MSLIS student

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  Herrera and Ryan selected for ARL Kaleidoscope Program

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• Tuesday

  October 8

  Professional Pathways Speaker Series: Dana Sheridan

  1:00 - 2:00 PM

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  Professor, pioneer in Black studies, Black liberation movements donates papers to Archives

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Other recent news

iSchool instructors ranked as excellent

October 1 2024

Ten iSchool instructors were named in the University's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Summer 2024. The rankings are released every semester, and results are based on the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) questionnaire forms maintained by Measurement and Evaluation in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Only those instructors who gave out ICES forms during the semester and who released their data for publication are included in the list.

Merkley joins the iSchool’s IT team

September 30 2024

Ky Merkley joined the iSchool this month as senior IT specialist. Their responsibilities will include supervising the graduate assistants at the Help Desk, assisting with instructional technology, and providing support to faculty on the digital accessibility of their courses.

Thomas joins the iSchool's HR team

September 25 2024

Carolyn Thomas joined the iSchool on September 16 as human resources manager. She will be working with the HR team to mentor and train, create efficiencies and streamline tasks, and provide an overall successful delivery of HR services to the iSchool community.

New NSF project to integrate human and machine intelligence to address information integrity

September 24 2024

Identifying whether online information is faulty or ungrounded is important to ensure information integrity and a well-informed public. This was especially challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic when misinformation spread like wildfire across the Internet. A new project led by Associate Professor Dong Wang will integrate diverse human and machine intelligence to examine multimodal data (e.g., text and image) that was produced during the pandemic. His project, "Crowd-Assisted Human-AI Teaming with Explanations," has been awarded a three-year, $599,999 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).