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Alumni spotlight: Brody Coning

iSchool alum Brody Coning, film archivist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film archives do more than store old movies. They preserve culture, in the words and voices of those who shaped it. They guard memories by preventing old tapes from deteriorating. And they allow scholars and storytellers to access, and piece …

iSchool Welcomes 4 New Faculty Members

The Information School (iSchool) has added four outstanding new members to its growing faculty. This fall, the iSchool welcomes Emilee Rader and Rick Wash as associate professors and Clinton Castro and Chaowei Xiao as assistant professors. Research interests among the new faculty are diverse, from information security and data privacy to bias in algorithms and …

How the iSchool is building partnerships with Indigenous communities

The Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums project is expanding.

Student spotlight: Meet 3 talented undergraduates studying Information Science

About a year ago, the Information School (iSchool) at UW–Madison launched a brand new undergraduate major in Information Science. In the program, students study the countless ways humans interact with technology and data. The major prepares Badgers for careers across a wide range of sectors, from technology and finance to government and healthcare. The BA/BS …