Year: 2022

Instructor Profile: Jacob Ineichen

iSchool courses are taught by a mix of faculty, instructional staff, and working practitioners. Jacob Ineichen has taught a variety of courses for the iSchool including LIS 644 Digital Tools, Trends, and Debates  and LIS 646 Introduction to Information Architecture. In Spring 2022, he is teaching LIS 640 Web Development. Jacob Ineichen’s library career path …

Instructor Profile: Anna Simon

iSchool courses are taught by a mix of faculty, permanent instructors, and working practitioners. Anna Simon, interim head of UW–Madison’s Kohler Art Library, teaches LIS 855 Art Librarianship. Things clicked for Anna Simon when she discovered art librarianship as a career. She had always loved libraries and museums and had an interest in art – …

2022 Distinguished Alumna: Dr. Karen Brown (MA’77)

Dr. Karen Brown is the iSchool’s 2022 Distinguished Alumna! Dr. Brown retired in 2020 as a professor at Dominican University’s School of Information Studies. Throughout her career, she served as an instructor and consultant known for creating connections between education, theory, and practice. Watch for an article this spring about her career path and accomplishments. …

Department of Defense looks to UW-Madison and Analytics Research Institute for Help in Developing Systems to Evaluate Science Research

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 …