March 14 - 22, 2026

Spring Break

Spring Break begins on March 14, 2026 through March 22, 2026. 

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  Fab Lab summer camps foster creativity and hands-on learning

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• Thursday

  March 5

  Cover Letter Workshop

  4:00 - 5:00 PM

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  New multi-institutional project to use AI to represent past historical periods

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  Get to know Sid Patil, director of data strategy & alumni insights

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  Wang group to present at WSDM26

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• Wednesday

  March 25

  Webinar: Data Literacy

  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Other recent news

iSchool researchers to present work at Technocracy Conference

March 4 2026

This week, iSchool PhD students and faculty will present their research at the Technocracy Conference. Hosted by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois on March 5–6, the conference will begin with a panel of graduate student papers and continue the following day with invited speakers and a keynote. All events will take place at the Levis Faculty Center on the Urbana campus. 

Wiegand to deliver 2026 Gryphon Lecture

February 23 2026

Wayne A. Wiegand, the F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State University, will deliver the 2026 Gryphon Lecture on March 4. Sponsored annually by the Center for Children's Books, the lecture features a leading scholar in the field of youth and literature, media, and culture.

New NSF award supports innovative role-playing game approach to strengthening research security in academia

February 19 2026

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) award will support an innovative effort in the School of Information Sciences to strengthen research security by using structured role-playing games (RPG) to model the threats facing academic research environments. The project, titled "REDTEAM: Research Environment Defense Through Expert Attack Modeling," addresses a growing challenge: balancing the open, collaborative nature of academic research with increasing national security risks and sophisticated adversarial threats. 

Library Trends examines data literacy in latest issue

February 19 2026

The iSchool at Illinois is pleased to announce the publication of Library Trends 74 (3) "Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality." Guest editor and Library Trends editorial board member Ben B. Chiewphasa (MSLIS '19) uses this issue to examine the intersection of technological hype and practical reality in librarianship through the lens of data literacy.