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Meet and Greet with Courtney Young, former President of the American Library Association
The 黑料不打烊 Libraries and the School of Information Studies (iSchool) will host a 鈥渕eet and greet鈥 with Courtney Young, former president of the American Library Association, on Monday, Oct. 3, from 3:30- 5 p.m. in Bird Library鈥檚 Peter Graham…
Information Security Club Takes Gold at NCAC
A team of graduate students from the Information Management聽and Telecommunications and Network Management programs at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) and from the College of Engineering and Computer Science聽have won the gold award in Phase I of the National…
Acuna Awarded NSF Grant to Make Sense of Research and Funding Data
When scientists and researchers want to apply to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a grant opportunity, the agency has a mandate to ensure that any research funded is new and transformative in the field. While an admirable goal in…
Rochelle Ford and Ping Zhang Named Provost鈥檚 Faculty Fellows
Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele G. Wheatly has announced the appointment of professors Rochelle Ford and Ping Zhang to serve as Provost鈥檚 Faculty Fellows, effective immediately. Ford is a professor and chair of the Department of Public Relations in the…
AsiaTech, EuroTech Information Sessions Scheduled
Fall information sessions for the 2017 AsiaTech and EuroTech Immersion Experience trips hosted by the School of Information Studies (iSchool) have been scheduled. These 3-credit traveling seminars expose students to some of the largest global corporations so they can see…
Kingma Hosts Group from China鈥檚 Tsinghua University
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor of Entreprenurship Bruce Kingma聽hosted a group of visiting scholars from China鈥檚 Tsinghua University this week, bringing them to campus as part of a tour of East Coast colleges and universities to study how entrepreneurship…
LIS Student Selected for ALA Spectrum Scholarship
Maria Provini, a graduate student in the Library and Information Science聽program at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), has been named a recipient of the 2016-17 American Library Association鈥檚 Spectrum Scholarship. Provini is one of 61 recipients of the competitive…
Q&A: What鈥檚 Behind the Pok茅mon Go Craze?
They are everywhere. Pikachu and Venusaur and the many characters of Pok茅mon are taking over virtual spaces and being captured by fans with a smartphone and the downloadable Pok茅mon Go app by Niantic and Nintendo. The game that uses a…
Acuna Publishes Groundbreaking Chunking Research in Nature Communications
Think about a simple task you learned a long time ago, such as memorizing your phone number or learning how to tie your shoe laces. Chances are, you did this using a method called chunking. You put like things together…
Hemsley鈥檚 鈥楽teel Links鈥 Visualization Accepted to Cooperstown Exhibition
When the 81st annual National Juried Art Exhibition opens next week at the Cooperstown Art Association, one of the pieces hanging on the wall will belong to School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty member Jeff Hemsley. The piece of artwork…