In the Oneida Language, new MA student Eliza Skenandore introduces herself with “She·kú swakwe·kú! Yutyátashnolats okhaleˀ Eliza ní· yúkyats!,” which translates to English as “Hello everyone, my name is Yutyátashnolats and Eliza!” For over ten years, Eliza worked for the Oneida Nation Museum, a Tribal heritage institution located in northeastern Wisconsin. Initially, she was a …
Dr. DeAnza Williams joined the iSchool this fall as part of the teaching faculty and will focus on youth services, public libraries, and leadership – areas many iSchool alumni eventually focus on in their careers. The iSchool is excited to add Dr. Williams’ expertise to the MA program! We asked her to share her background …
The iSchool’s student organizations are where students express their creativity and leadership skills within communities of practice. Recently, we caught up with Morgan Reardon, the Community Connections Chair of the Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums (TLAM) student group. At the heart of TLAM is bringing information resources and support to Native students on campus and …
John Thompson (MA ’87) got his start in public libraries with a part-time job in high school, shelving and staffing the circulation desk at Baraboo Public Library. Now a library system director in Wisconsin with 34 years of library experience to his name, Thompson is the Wisconsin Library Association’s 2021 Librarian of the Year. When …
Get to know the iSchool’s ten new PhD students! They will be featured throughout the Fall 2021 semester. Yaxuan Yin Research areas: HCI (human-computer interaction), Social Computing, Spatial Computing Advisor: Jacob Thebault-Spieker What is your home country? China How did you become interested in the field of information? I studied Information Management as an undergrad. …
The iSchool is hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Ethics of Computing, Data & Information Sciences! This position is part of cluster hire, in collaboration with the departments of Computer Sciences and Philosophy and with the Holtz Center for Science, Technology & Society. Applications submitted by November 21 will receive full consideration, but …
Get to know the iSchool’s ten new PhD students! They will be featured throughout the Fall 2021 semester. Salsabil Arabi Areas of Interest: Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Visualization Advisor: Ian Hutchins Where are you from? My hometown is Khulna, Bangladesh. Khulna is a small town and the gateway to the Sundarbans, the largest …
Get to know the iSchool’s ten new PhD students! They will be featured throughout the Fall 2021 semester. Tallal Ahmad Areas of Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered Design, Computer Supported Collaborative Works, Information & Communication Technologies for Development Advisor: Corey Jackson Where are you from? Lahore, Pakistan How did you become interested in the field of information? …
Professor Catherine Arnott Smith is a coinvestigator on Dr. Michelle Kelly’s $292,973 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) for a two-year project, “Getting on the same page: Leveraging an inpatient portal to engage families of hospitalized children.” The project aims to extend and broaden the evaluation and reach of the intervention, …
When it comes to human vs. human-AI hybrid in answering knowledge demanding questions, who has the edge? This was the question iSchool PhD student Zihan Gao and Professor Jiepu Jiang asked in their research involving human-AI hybrid chat systems. The study, which was accepted as a full paper to appear at November’s CIKM 2021 Conference, …