Year: 2026

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 …

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 …