Year: 2026

Four exceptional students have earned the 2026 Outstanding Information Science Student Award, recognizing Information Science (iSci) undergraduates for excellent academic achievement as well as leadership and experience outside the classroom.  The awards offer financial support and well-earned recognition for exemplifying what’s possible in the iSci major, which has grown to over 500 students since its inception in 2022.  Meet the winners:  Alexander Bussell x’26 For Alexander Bussell, choosing iSci felt like “a leap …

The Information School is proud to celebrate three PhD students named recipients of the iSchool Graduate Student Teaching Award. As Lecturer Student Assistants, each of them has shown a commitment to inclusive, engaging teaching that meets students where they are and prepares them for a rapidly evolving information landscape. Xiang Zheng PhDx’26 As instructor of …

Prudence Dalrymple PhD’87 has helped expand what it means to work in library and information science. From consulting with regional library systems to advancing health informatics and medical information access, Dalrymple’s work has spanned across public libraries, professional accreditation, universities, and healthcare settings. Across decades of work, Dalrymple has has built a career showing how …

Janice Rice MA’75 has devoted her life’s work to strengthening libraries and expanding information access for Indigenous communities across Wisconsin and the nation. An Elder and member of the Ho‑Chunk Nation, Rice’s commitment to inclusive librarianship traces back to her upbringing in Tomah, WI, as a teenager working in the local public library. “The doors were open to everyone, and everyone came in,” she …

Dan Bially Levy, a PhD student in the Information School, has received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, a competitive award supporting outstanding graduate students pursuing full-time research-based graduate degrees in STEM fields.  Bially Levy studies questions at the intersection of social behavior and online privacy. His fellowship-winning proposal centers on privacy sensemaking — …

By Thomas Jilk Drawing on rich historical collections, a team of scholars is rediscovering the people, places, and practices that built today’s Information School. “A librarian should be bigger than the day’s work and its routine,” wrote Mary Emogene Hazeltine, the first head of the Wisconsin Library School, in 1922. Librarians should have “a vision of the field as a whole, but while working towards the …

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 …