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iSchool Senior Develops App to Alert Israelis of Rocket Strikes
Last year, Benjamin Honig, a senior at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), won a scholarship award from Apple that provided him with admission to the company鈥檚 yearly Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. While attending the WWDC in…
iSchool Research Finds Young People Are Careful, Expressive Communicating Online
Contrary to a common cultural portrayal, young people are careful and conscientious about how they present themselves in online聽communication, and they compose expressive messages, use larger vocabularies, and emphasize remarks with more punctuation聽than their older counterparts. Those are some of…
iSchool Ranked #1 for Online Computer Information Technology Programs for Veterans
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) was ranked No. 1 in best online graduate degree programs in computer information technology for veterans by U.S. News & World Report. The full rankings are available on the U.S. News & World Report聽website,…
iSchool Hosts Workshop for NSF-Funded Social Computing Researchers
Faculty members at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) recently hosted a one-day workshop for New York researchers doing National Science Foundation-funded work in the area of social-computational systems. Research Associate Professor Nancy McCracken and Associate Professor Carsten Oesterlund organized…
Faculty, Students Using Big Data to Analyze Energy-Use Patterns
A team from the School of Information Studies (iSchool) is conducting research analysis using big data sets from the Pecan Street Research Consortium, a global collaboration working on utility system operations, climate change, integration of distributed energy and storage, and…
Entrepreneur Wiley Cerilli Joins Board of Advisors
School of Information Studies (iSchool) alumnus Wiley Cerilli, vice president on the Constant Contact executive team, has joined the school鈥檚 Board of Advisors. Cerilli runs one of the largest divisions for the company. Prior to Constant Contact he was the…
Bei Yu Awarded IMLS Grant to Build Citation Opinion Analysis Tool
A team at the School of Information Studies will be able to start building a valuable new academic research citation tool with newly awarded grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Assistant Professor Bei Yu has…
iSchool Faculty, Students Presenting at Big Data in Libraries Conference
School of Information Studies faculty and students are among the presenters for the Big Data in Libraries conference taking place April 11 in 黑料不打烊. Assistant Professor Bei Yu will speak on “Managing and Curating Undergraduate-Generated Qualitative Data.鈥 Sarah Bratt, a…
Stanton Named Fellow of Leading Change Institute
Jeffrey M. Stanton, professor and senior associate dean in the School of Information Studies, was selected as a 2014 fellow for the Leading Change Institute, co-sponsored by EDUCAUSE and the Council on Library and Information Resources. The institute will take…
Faculty Member a Judge for IBM’s Master the Mainframe Competition
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) will be involved in an innovative IBM academic initiative, as one of its faculty members participates as a judge for the technology firm鈥檚 鈥淢aster the Mainframe World Championship鈥 programming competition for young innovators. One…