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Santos honored by Illinois State Comptroller Professor and Dean Eunice E. Santos has been named a 2024 Women’s History Month Honoree by the Illinois Office of Comptroller. Read more and watch the award ceremony here. |
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2024 Windsor Lecture On May 1, Quinn Dombrowski (MSLIS '09), academic technology specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and in the Library, at Stanford University, will present the 2024 Windsor Lecture, "What Happens After the End? Crafting Sustainable Librarianship in an Age of AI." |
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Deadline extended for Downs Award nominations The deadline for nominations for the 2023 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award has been extended to April 8. The award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers. Read more. |
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BSIS student feature: Celesta Irawan Celesta Irawan's dreams of becoming a UI/UX designer and starting a business are one step closer to becoming a reality thanks to the BSIS program's flexible pathways. Watch here. |
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Get to know Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou PhD student Kyrie Zhou wants to make information and communication technology (ICT) and artificial intelligence (AI) experiences more equitable, accessible, beneficial, and ethical for all. Read more. |
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Hu defends dissertation Doctoral candidate Yuerong Hu successfully defended her dissertation, "Complexities and Nuances of Online Book Reviews in Scholarly Research," on March 6. Read more. |
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Dual degree program a perfect fit for Byington After Richard Byington finishes his dual degree program (MSLIS + MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies), he will begin his PhD program in history at the University of Illinois and pursue his dream of becoming a professor. Read more. |
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Capshaw delivers 2024 Gryphon Lecture Katharine Capshaw, professor of English and associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Connecticut, presented this year's Gryphon Lecture, "Grappling with Martin Luther King Jr. in Youth Literature: Sequence as Resistance." Read more. |
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New maker-in-residence program launched Co-led by the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab, the Champaign County Community Maker-in-Residence Program aims to bridge and enhance the creative capabilities of local maker communities. The program was recently awarded a grant through the Campus-Community Compact to Accelerate Social Justice initiative. Read more. |
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In their new paper in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, PhD student Michelle Bak and Assistant Professor Jessie Chin show how conversational agents like ChatGPT respond differently based on a user's motivation Read more. |
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Comics Connection Associate Professor Carol Tilley was featured in the latest issue of Illinois Alumni magazine. Read more. |
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Smith authors paper for newly relaunched ARIST A paper by Professor Emerita Linda C. Smith, “Reviews and Reviewing: Approaches to Research Synthesis,” is included in the relaunch of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST). Read more. |
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Knox named to IJIDI editorial board Associate Professor Emily Knox has accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI). Read more. |
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Downie and Underwood present keynotes in Japan Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie and Professor Ted Underwood presented keynotes in March at the Digital Humanities International Symposium in Japan. Read more. |
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Book co-edited by Dahlen recognized by ChLA A book co-edited by Associate Professor Sarah Park Dahlen, Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World, has received the Children's Literature Association (ChLA) Edited Book Award. Read more. |
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Anna Coats (MSLIS '11) has been elected to the ALA APALA (Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association) leadership board. Pim Halka (MSLIS '20) has a new role as the supervising reference librarian with Jefferson-Madison Regional Library in Charlottesville, Virginia. "I look forward to building the community engagement program at JMRL with skills I learned at the iSchool," Halka said. Carol Leibiger (MSLIS '85) has been promoted to professor in the University Libraries at the University of South Dakota. Nisha Mody (MSLIS '17) has created a course called Trauma-Informed and Relational Care for Libraries. Conrad Remington (MSLIS '17) married Greg Remington (née Alvarez) on February 29, 2024. Kim Tipton (MSLIS '18), reference librarian at the McHenry County College Library, was featured in the Illinois Library Association's Member Spotlight for the week of March 11, 2024. Diane Zabel (MSLIS '82) received the 2024 BRASS Excellence in Business Librarianship Award from the Reference and User Services Association, a division of the ALA. |
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