Month: March 2026

Meet four alumni putting the Information School’s commitment to public service and community impact into practice. By Thomas Jilk Nationwide, Information School (iSchool) alumni are shaping the future of education in librarianship and information science through values instilled in them at UW–Madison. While their work environments vary widely, from technology-focused institutions to top-tier law schools and public research universities, each has followed a career path rooted in a commitment to service and impact that the iSchool is well-known for fostering in its graduates.  Whether working in STEM data librarianship in California or law …

Chaoqun Ni and Ian Hutchins are developing data-driven tools to understand and improve the way science moves forward in the age of AI.  By Thomas Jilk Associate Professor Chaoqun Ni and Assistant Professor Ian Hutchins came to UW–Madison in summer 2020, at a time when COVID-19 put scientific research firmly in the public spotlight. But science had been in Ni and Hutchins’s spotlight for years already, as the two …