News & Events

Information access a priority for Leep Scholar Alex Brown

Read the full story
Thursday

December 8

iSchool December 2022 Graduate Reception
4:00 - 5:30 PM
See the event details
Get to know Ved Upadhyay, Senior Data Scientist

Read the full story
Friday

December 9

Final exams begin

See the event details
Surange uses knowledge in art, information science to improve society through data

Read the full story
Wang research group receives ASONAM Best Paper Award

Read the full story

Upcoming Events

Wednesday December 14, 2022
iSchool Alumni Chats: Academic Library Alumni

12:00 - 1:00 PM
- Online
Thursday December 15, 2022
Fall Virtual Information Session (MS/IM)

9:00 - 10:00 AM
- Online
Thursday December 15, 2022
Fall Virtual Information Session (MS/LIS)

7:00 - 8:00 PM
- Online
Friday December 16, 2022
Final exams end

#iSchoolUI on Twitter

It was a wonderful evening celebrating the iSchool December 2022 graduating class last night at the winter graduati… https://t.co/4zkmZE5Yv5
@iSchoolUI December 9 6:50 PM
#iSchoolUI Affiliate Professor @lisalibrarian and MS/LIS student Kalyn Nowlan show that while open access indicator… https://t.co/fAZmq2ROQw
@iSchoolUI December 9 11:23 AM
#iSchoolUI doctoral candidate Linh Hoang successfully defended her dissertation, "Natural Language Processing to Su… https://t.co/2gb4bty3U9
@iSchoolUI December 8 3:27 PM
#iSchoolUI professor @ryancordell at @UofIllinois has created an experiential book arts studio at the… https://t.co/SoXzXuTiMO
@iSchoolUI December 8 11:44 AM
It was while she was serving in the @PeaceCorps that Alex Brown discovered the need for reliable access to quality… https://t.co/sqUemZFvIv
@iSchoolUI December 5 1:23 PM

Other recent news

Hoang defends dissertation

December 8 2022

Doctoral candidate Linh Hoang successfully defended her dissertation, "Natural Language Processing to Support Evidence Quality Assessment of Biomedical Literature," on December 8.

Information access a priority for Leep Scholar Alex Brown

December 5 2022

It was while she was serving in the Peace Corps that Alex Brown's eyes were opened to the need for reliable access to quality information and education. She didn't realize it at the time, but this experience would one day lead her to the iSchool, where she is now a student in the MS/LIS online (Leep) program.

Wang research group receives ASONAM Best Paper Award

December 2 2022

A paper coauthored by PhD student Lanyu Shang and members of Associate Professor Dong Wang's research group, the Social Sensing and Intelligence Lab, received the best paper award in the research track during the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2022).

Get to know Ved Upadhyay, Senior Data Scientist

December 1 2022

Ved Upadhyay (MS/IM '19) serves as a senior data scientist for Walmart Global Tech. He enjoys working with different teams at the company and "designing impactful data science solutions" for customers.