Fall semester is in full swing and there are so many things to be thankful for. One thing I am especially appreciating is the simple pleasure of life at UW: lively hallways, seeing colleagues and students, meetings without a headset. This fall it was a pleasure to welcome our second cohort of MS Information students …
For fourteen years members of the iSchool have been working together with the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe (Gaa-Miskwaabikaang) as part of the Tribal Libraries, Archives and Museums (TLAM) program. In late October a broad group came together for a reunion, educational events, career and college fair, and to celebrate the progress of …
In September the iSchool added a new undergraduate degree, a BA/BS degree in Information Science. It was developed to meet demand from students interested in exploring the intersection between technology and human values. Students in the program gain insights into the ways individuals and societies use information and data, while learning to develop equitable information …
Artificial intelligence, including machine learning, is changing the way the Department of Defense (DoD) is evaluating its work as a national funder of science research. To advance this effort, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Analytics Research Institute (ARI) have received a 3-year, $2.1 million Minerva Initiative Award grant to build a data and analytic …
Congratulations to Professor Rebekah Willett who was recently awarded a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award is among the most prestigious granted by the university and is awarded to recognize distinguished scholarship as well as outstanding efforts in teaching and service. “To be honored with this award is deeply meaningful to me,” said Willett. “Not …
Fall semester is well underway, and there is much to celebrate this year! UW-Madison’s freshman class is, once again, the largest in history, and it is also the most diverse. Here in L&S, we have a student body full of talent and we are providing a world-class experience for those students. Engagement at SuccessWorks, our …
Second-year iSchool student Oluwademilade Oloyede has LIS interests that range from public to academic libraries and archives. Hailing from Nigeria and a member of the Yoruba tribe, Oloyede’s experience with libraries looks a little different from those in North America—although some things, like funding, are familiarly difficult territory. Once her interest in libraries was piqued, …
“A lot of people in technology want to study programming,” said MS Information student Satvik Shukla, “I was a little different, I wanted to know what was happening in the background and how technology interacts with information.” Shukla who spent his early years in Nagpur, India, the geographic epicenter of the country, was sent to …
Originally from Philadelphia, UW–Madison senior Julia Grossinger knew she wanted to leave home for college. UW–Madison was the perfect place. It was big, had lots of lakes and nature, great academics and amazing school spirit. There was just one problem. Grossinger had learned about iSchools while in high school and wanted to study information science, …
When Chandra Prabha arrived in Madison fifty years ago, she did not know what her future would hold. A chance encounter with a library staff and a sense of ease at a south side branch of the Madison Public Library led Prabha to choose a career in Library Science. Her professional journey in library science …