Sunday June 28, 2026

Alumni reception in Chicago

Join us for an iSchool alumni reception during the American Library Association annual conference. Connect with alumni, faculty, and staff, and learn what is new in the School. We will present the 2026 iSchool Alumni Association Awards and the 2025 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award.

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  Kraus wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize Award in Fiction

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  Raji invited to join UN Working Expert Group

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  Paper by He's lab recognized at ICLR 2026 workshop

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  iSchool to shape development of cultural heritage documentation standards

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• Wednesday

  June 10

  Daniel Evans's Dissertation Defense

  9:00 - 11:00 AM

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  2025 Downs Intellectual Freedom Award given to Nicole A. Cooke

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Other recent news

Library Trends issue explores compelling tensions in library and information science

June 12 2026

The iSchool at Illinois is pleased to announce the publication of Library Trends 74 (4) "Compelling Tensions in Library and Information Science." Guest editor Katherine M. Wisser frames current tensions in the LIS field through Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," which posits that paradigm shifts are driven by periods of revolution, rather than incremental, progressive change.  

Wang group receives ICWSM Best Dataset Paper Award

June 9 2026

A paper from Professor Dong Wang's Social Sensing & Intelligence Lab received the Best Dataset Paper Award at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) held in May 2026 in Los Angeles, California. According to Wang, the paper was accepted in the first review round, which had an acceptance rate of 4.7 percent (14 of 298 submissions). 

Adler and Wang to present at RESPECT 2026

June 8 2026

Associate Professor Rachel Adler and Informatics PhD student Olive Wang will present their work at the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), which will be held in Chicago this week.

Bashir group presents work at PEPR 2026

June 4 2026

PhD students Ramazan Yener, Eryue Xu, and Mubarak Raji presented their research this week at the 2026 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) in Santa Clara, California. PEPR is focused on designing and building products and systems with privacy and respect for their users and the societies in which they operate. The students received USENIX grants covering their conference registration and providing travel support to attend the conference.