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 …

Two out of the three inductees into the Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame in 2025 are Information School alumni: Marge Loch-Wouters MA’76 and Michael Gelhausen MA’76. The Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame inducts individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the improvement of library services across Wisconsin. Marge Loch-Wouters was chosen “in recognition of her …

Serena Guo knows technology can help people connect with one another. That may sound counterintuitive in a world where computers, whether on desks or in pockets, dominate our attention and often serve to discourage social interaction. But Guo believes that thoughtfully designed technologies can do just the opposite, sparking human connections that never would have …

Our faculty and students are revealing new insights on some of the most pressing questions at the nexus of information, technology, and society. This fall’s research highlights span critical examinations of equity in science journalism and immigration enforcement, innovative studies of online learning communities, and fascinating work on the dynamics of digital healthcare environments. Here’s …