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 to present their work at ESC 2026

October 6 2026

iSchool researchers will present their work this week at the Engagement Scholarship Consortium's 2026 annual conference in Knoxville, Tennessee. The theme of this year's conference is "Changing Lives and Improving Society: Data-Driven Engagement and Innovation." ESC's goal is to work collaboratively to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship and designed to help build community capacity.

Jiaqi Ma receives AICE grant

October 5 2026

Assistant Professor Jiaqi Ma has received a grant from the Amazon-Illinois Center on AI for Interactive Conversational Experiences. AICE is a collaboration between Amazon and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to develop intelligent conversational systems that demonstrate contextual understanding and emotional intelligence, allow for personalization, and can interpret non-verbal communication while being ethical and fair.

Jarrett Dapier's graphic novel named to Book Riot "best-of" lists

October 5 2026

Adjunct instructor Jarrett Dapier's graphic novel, Wake Now in the Fire (Ten Speed Graphic, 2026), was selected by Book Riot as one of the best books of the first half of 2026 in both graphic novels and young adult novels categories. 

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.