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This October, the iSchool’s Continuing Education team launched a new conference, Upgrade: Enhancing Library Services with Technology, bringing over 100 library and information professionals together for the inaugural two-day event. The conference exemplifies the iSchool’s ongoing commitment to addressing pressing questions about technology’s role in society and impact on communities.  As information technologies reshape how …

Information and communication are inextricably connected; information is the raw material, communication the final product. Bella Power x’26 sees the power of that relationship—by double majoring in iSci and Communication Arts, “I could both understand the information itself and communicate about it effectively,” she said.  For Power, the Information Science major has created what she …

Jodi Schneider has joined the Information School as an associate professor, bringing a unique and wide-ranging research expertise—focused on the science of science and scientific controversies—to UW–Madison as the iSchool’s faculty continues to expand. Schneider’s research explores information quality, with the ultimate goal of ensuring public policy is informed by the best available scientific evidence. …

By Thomas Jilk Jacqueline (Lina) Brixey’s great-grandfather was the last fluent Choctaw speaker in her family. After his passing, her great-grandmother urged the family to speak English in order to open better opportunities for themselves in what we now call the United States. Today, out of the roughly 200,000 members of the Choctaw Nation of …

Professor Greg Downey’s career defies disciplinary boundaries, spanning from computer science to history and geography, from journalism and mass communication to the history of information.  For 25 years, Downey has served UW–Madison in a range of capacities, including a stint as chair of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a recent decade-long leadership …

In 2014, Bradley Bryant had just started in a role at Sony’s software division when North Korean hackers breached the company’s systems, stealing and leaking confidential data from Sony’s film studio and demanding the cancellation of the film “The Interview.” The Sony hack made international headlines amid what Bryant called a “wild” and “stressful” time …