University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: November 2021

Student Org Spotlight: Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums 

The iSchool’s student organizations are where students express their creativity and leadership skills within communities of practice. Recently, we caught up with Morgan Reardon, the Community Connections Chair of the Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums (TLAM) student group. At the heart of TLAM is bringing information resources and support to Native students on campus and …

Alum John Thompson named WLA’s Librarian of the Year

John Thompson (MA ’87) got his start in public libraries with a part-time job in high school, shelving and staffing the circulation desk at Baraboo Public Library. Now a library system director in Wisconsin with 34 years of library experience to his name, Thompson is the Wisconsin Library Association’s 2021 Librarian of the Year. When …

PhD Student Profile: Yaxuan Yin

Get to know the iSchool’s ten new PhD students! They will be featured throughout the Fall 2021 semester. Yaxuan Yin Research areas: HCI (human-computer interaction), Social Computing, Spatial Computing Advisor: Jacob Thebault-Spieker What is your home country? China How did you become interested in the field of information? I studied Information Management as an undergrad. …

iSchool is hiring! Assistant Professor in Ethics of Computing, Data & Information Sciences

  The iSchool is hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Ethics of Computing, Data & Information Sciences! This position is part of cluster hire, in collaboration with the departments of Computer Sciences and Philosophy and with the Holtz Center for Science, Technology & Society. Applications submitted by November 21 will receive full consideration, but …

PhD Student Profile: Salsabil Arabi

Get to know the iSchool’s ten new PhD students! They will be featured throughout the Fall 2021 semester.   Salsabil Arabi Areas of Interest: Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Visualization Advisor: Ian Hutchins Where are you from? My hometown is Khulna, Bangladesh. Khulna is a small town and the gateway to the Sundarbans, the largest …