On December 14, Information School students, faculty and staff gathered at a lively reception to celebrate 38 winter graduates across all iSchool programs. This semester, graduates included students completing the following programs: MA Library & Information Studies: 23 graduates MS Information: 7 graduates BA/BS Information Science: 8 graduates The 8 Information Science students represent the …
Graduate students often attend conferences, but Gabriella Schaffer MAx’24 helped plan one. The iSchool’s Continuing Education team organizes Power Up: A Conference for Youth Services Managers & Staff on a recurring basis, and graduate students can directly contribute, as Schaffer did, by serving as student representatives on the conference’s programming committee. At Power Up, youth …
The iSchool’s Master of Science in Information is inherently interdisciplinary. It gives students the technical skills to understand information and data systems, and the critical thinking, design, and communications skills to govern and critique them. The program is designed to prepare students to become information leaders across a wide range of industries and sectors. Three …
Photo by Brian Huynh /UW–Madison Consider three everyday acts: driving a car, making a purchase, and working a job. They all involve technologies that collect personal data—data about driving tendencies, buying patterns, and work habits. The collection of this information is not necessarily harmful in itself. But as data-gathering technologies increasingly pervade everyday life, opportunities …
Participants of the 2023 Librarians’ Tour of Scotland, led by iSchool Continuing Education Program Managers Casey Ineichen (third from right) and Meredith Lowe (far right). Photo taken at the Commando Memorial in the Scottish Highlands. Photos provided by iSchool staff. In September, the iSchool’s continuing education team led the latest installment of a decades-old tradition: …
At first, Melina Zarboulas x’25 was reluctant about coming to UW–Madison. It was far from where she grew up on Long Island, New York, and she was on the cusp of committing elsewhere. Then, she visited Madison with her parents the weekend before her decision deadline. “It was so beautiful and lively, and I just …
Above: In October 2022, Wisconsin EcoLatinos participated in a community discussion about environmental justice as part of a collaborative project led by UW–Madison researchers and students. This photo shows cultural elements of the event; participants placed their culture of origin onto a World Map and enjoyed a Bolivian dance. Underserved communities bear the brunt of …
Artist rendering of the new CDIS building. Photo credit: LMN Architects. In 2019, the iSchool became a founding department of the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS), the newest school at UW–Madison. And as we shared in the last issue of Jottings, CDIS is building a brand new, state-of-the-art home, scheduled to open …
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 …
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 …