Congratulations to #iSchoolUI Affiliate Professor Sara Benson on being awarded a Fulbright Specialist Grant! Sara will be spending time in Bulgaria studying text and data mining exceptions next summer. ▶️ bit.ly/48PFI6c

Congratulations to #iSchoolUI PhD student Gladys Kemboi on being awarded the Knowledge Manager of the Year from @cilip.bsky.social, the UK’s library and information association. Learn more about Gladys and the award ▶️ bit.ly/3KIL5e9

Join the #iSchoolUI! We invite applications for the Director of Recruitment and Admissions, who will be responsible for the overall recruitment, admissions, and yield operations for the School. Submit your application by January 16 ▶️ bit.ly/44z76mf

An estimated 55 million people worldwide live with dementia, a number expected to reach 139 million by 2050.   The latest issue of Library Trends 74 (2) explores how libraries can support people living with dementia and their caregivers.   Learn more ▶️ bit.ly/494BZR8

#iSchoolUI MSLIS student & Illinois Library grad assistant Christine Thuy Minh Nguyen has been awarded the Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship to attend the 2026 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) President’s Institute (#ARLPI26). Congrats, Christine! 🎉▶️ bit.ly/4iXVkYx

#iSchoolUI PhD student Maya Bergamasco mentored MLIS student Joe Lee in the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Mentoring Program. Together, they reflect on how their partnership shaped their year ▶️ bit.ly/4pGNPIe

#iSchoolUI Associate Professor @crhinesmith.bsky.social has been elected to serve on the iSchools Board of Directors, where he will assist in developing the strategic direction of the iSchools organization. Congratulations, Colin! ▶️ bit.ly/4iSvwwV

Kyu-Been Chun has joined the #iSchoolUI as a coordinator of student and academic affairs, where he will support PhD students, ensuring that they have the resources and guidance needed throughout their doctoral journey. Welcome, Kyu-Been! ▶️ bit.ly/4rRm5Sp

Looking for the perfect gift for your fellow reader?   “The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books” just released its 2025 gift guide with recommendations that range from picture books to young adult novels! 🎁📖▶️ bit.ly/3Msv9NC

Congrats to political science student Leana Shin on winning the Global Undergraduate Awards in Dublin for the Law category! 🎉 Leana’s honors thesis advisor, #iSchoolUI Assistant Professor Meicen Sun, won this same award for the Politics and International Relations category in 2012.

For their class IS 204: Research Design in Information Sciences, #iSchoolUI students from 17 groups displayed their research proposals today as part of their class assessment. Great job, everyone!

From Ghana to Illinois, Fatihi Mohammed’s journey has been shaped by a renewed belief in education. With support from the Anna Mae Koval Scholarship Fund, he’s pursuing his MSLIS degree at the #iSchoolUI and exploring data privacy and AI governance. ▶️ bit.ly/3Mhnjq3

Over the weekend, the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab’s Holiday Maker Fest brought together local vendors, handmade gifts, and customize-your-own creations to support the Fab Lab Summer Camp Scholarship Fund. We hope you had a great time! 🎄❄️

Thank you to everyone who joined us today for the Game Studies & Design Student Showcase. We enjoyed the opportunity to show off the work of our talented GSD students! ♟️🎲

📢 Applications are now open for the NEW fully online MS in Game Development, offered through Informatics in the #iSchoolUI! Turn your passion for interactive media into meaningful careers across game development, animation, simulation, and more! 🎮▶️ bit.ly/44S7Z9v

Join Library Trends on December 10 for a webinar on how genre classifications facilitate access to creative works in libraries and beyond.   Featuring Pauline Rafferty, Deborah Lee, Andrew Dillon, Denice Adkins, Melissa Nelson, and Julia Bullard. ▶️ bit.ly/3MfwRSn

Tune in tomorrow to the last “The AI Disruption” talk of the fall semester! Karen Levy, associate professor of information science at Cornell University, will present “AI and the Future of Work: Lessons from the Truck Cab and the Supermarket." ▶️ bit.ly/3Ky60QS

On #GivingTuesday, every gift counts. Thank you for your support of the #iSchoolUI!

New from @tandfresearch.bsky.social: #iSchoolUI Teaching Assistant Professor Yildiz Esener and team review PTSD apps, analyzing what shapes usability and acceptability. They also introduce a new TAM-based framework to better assess user needs and engagement. ▶️ bit.ly/4rwVidW

In this new podcast, #iSchoolUI Associate Professor Colin Rhinesmith and Allison Lester, host of the Thinking Through... Podcast, reflect on what gets overlooked in conversations about the digital divide. ➡️ bit.ly/4pmMtl2

#iSchoolUI Postdoctoral Research Associate Hyanghee Park was selected to participate in the 2025 Rising Stars in EECS Workshop. Her research seeks to uncover the root causes of AI adoption issues in workplaces. Congratulations, Hyanghee! 🎉 bit.ly/49yCIf9

Each fall, #ILLINOIS students come together to build an escape room. This year’s client: the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. “Mus-Muscovirus,” a race to stop a virus from mutating people, runs December 1-9 in the C-U area. 🦠🧩▶️ bit.ly/3MbJ7TE

#iSchoolUI PhD student and AI researcher Meng Li won our t-shirt design contest this fall. Her winning design captures “how people ride and shape the powerful wave of information with the support of technology.” Congratulations, Meng! 👕✨ bit.ly/49u4Wru

Congratulations to #iSchoolUI Assistant Professor Yue Guo on being a finalist for the Edward H. Shortliffe Doctoral Dissertation Award from the American Medical Informaticians Association (@amia.org)! 👏

Join CIRSS tomorrow for their “The AI Disruption” talk! Katie Atkinson, computer science professor at the University of Liverpool, UK, will present “Which legal tasks can be, should be, and should not be, undertaken by AI?" ▶️ bit.ly/3X3cf1L

Thinking about applying to the #iSchoolUI’s MSIM or MSLIS program?   We’re here to help you every step of the way. Join us for a webinar to learn more and ask questions!   🔸 Check out our upcoming events and register today ▶️ bit.ly/4o2HR2u

#iSchoolUI doctoral candidate Xiaoliang Jiang has successfully defended his dissertation, “Identifying Place Names in Scientific Writing Based on Language Models, Linked Data, and Metadata.” Congratulations, Xiaoliang! 🎉 ▶️ bit.ly/47XaSqo

Join the #iSchoolUI! We are accepting applications for adjunct faculty to teach courses in a variety of areas, supporting our undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Submit your application by December 5 ▶️ bit.ly/4o46ziV

#iSchoolUI Associate Professor Maria Bonn has assumed the presidency of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)! Congratulations, Maria! 🎉

Congrats to #iSchoolUI Professor Jingrui He and her lab on receiving an outstanding paper award for "AutoTool: Dynamic Tool Selection and Integration for Agentic Reasoning” at the Multi-Modal Reasoning for Agentic Intelligence Workshop during #ICCV2025! ▶️ bit.ly/49oF7sF

Despite widespread support for the 2021 San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, the Journal Impact Factor remains the most prominent metric on publisher platforms, according to a new study by Affiliate Professor Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and MSLIS student Heather Parkin.   ▶️ bit.ly/3JMnRTS

Quinn Kennelly has joined the #iSchoolUI as an office support specialist, where she will serve as the primary receptionist at 614 E. Daniel Street and will also provide administrative support for the Informatics team. Welcome, Quinn! ▶️ bit.ly/481ynyO

For Native American Heritage Month, #iSchoolUI doctoral student David Eby will join a panel on “Decolonizing Knowledge: Rethinking Research, Scholarship, and Community Engagement.”   🗓️ Monday, Nov. 17 ⏰ 5:30-7:00 p.m. 📍 Asian American Cultural Center ▶️ bit.ly/4hVXMOT

🎉 Congratulations to Informatics PhD student Sepehr Vaez Afshar on being named a Student Scholar by the Association for Preservation Technology (APT)! He’ll present his research on XR applications in U.S. museums at APT’s annual conference in Providence. ▶️ bit.ly/488TSP9

The #iSchoolUI will be well represented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), which will be held November 14-18 in Arlington, Virginia.   See the full schedule of our participation here ▶️ bit.ly/43lEb4z

After earning his BSIS+DS, Aisaiah Pellecer planned to go to grad school, but his path took a new turn when he was accepted into the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange. 🇺🇸🇩🇪   Now in Germany, he’s attending CS courses and preparing for an internship.   ▶️ bit.ly/4oI84of

Another #iSchoolUI Research Showcase is in the books! Thanks to everyone for making it a success! ✨

The #iSchoolUI has 🔸FOUR🔹 open faculty positions in the areas: Information Sciences, Information, Culture & Society, Information Behavior/HCI/UX, and Early Literacies! Submit your application by December 15 ▶️ bit.ly/iSchoolatIllinoisJobs

If you’re interested in viewing any of tomorrow’s proceedings, the event will be streamed on their YouTube channel. #comics #libcomix #censorship cc. @ischoolui.bsky.social

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

"The world isn't facing a lack of information, but rather an overload.” #iSchoolUI MSIM student Zhanchen Kang hopes to help people make sense of the overwhelming amount of information in their daily lives. Read more about his student experience ▶️ bit.ly/4qQYSQ3

Students from The Stu/dio, the #ILLINOIS student-led game studio, are heading to #MDEV2025 (Nov. 7–8 in Madison, WI)! 🎮 One of the Midwest’s top game dev conferences, MDEV celebrates innovation, collaboration, and creativity in gaming. ▶️ bit.ly/3LkUyZ0

Join Library Trends on November 11 for a webinar on generative AI’s impact on librarians.   The discussion, which will be moderated by #iSchoolUI Adjunct Lecturer Melissa Wong, will feature authors Andrea Baer, Nicole Murph, and Kay Slater.   🤖▶️ bit.ly/492OrlR

Attend tomorrow’s “The AI Disruption” talk! Chaowei Xiao, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University and researcher at Nvidia, will present “Towards Secure and Safe AI Agents: From Model to System." ▶️ bit.ly/3WDnq0Y

At #NDiSTEM in Ohio, #iSchoolUI Postdoc Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral and @prereview.bsky.social’s Daniela Saderi hosted a hands-on workshop on recognizing and interrupting bias in peer review. 💡📝

#iSchoolUI PhD students have received A. Serwin Conference Scholarships from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) to attend their annual conference, held October 30-31, in San Diego, California. Congratulations! ▶️ bit.ly/4ntilmL

#iSchoolUI doctoral candidate @janajm.com has successfully defended her dissertation, “Scholarship writ large: A data-rich analysis of professionalization in English literary scholarship from 1940 to the present.” Congratulations, Jana! 🎉▶️ bit.ly/4oO1Jr9

Character.AI will soon bar users under 18 from using its chatbots, reports @nytimes.com. #iSchoolUI Professor Yang Wang shared insights from his research, which concluded that such platforms didn’t have sufficient child safety protections. 🤖▶️ bit.ly/432FcOK

For her work on human-centered AI safety for youth, #iSchoolUI PhD student Yaman Yu has been named a recipient of the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship in Privacy, Safety, and Security! Congratulations, Yaman! 🤖▶️ bit.ly/48OF0q9

Illinois is facing its driest year since 1988. 🌾 SIDE, an AI-driven drought estimation framework developed by #iSchoolUI Professor Dong Wang, aims to understand the social effects of drought. He discussed his research with the Illinois News Bureau ▶️ bit.ly/4ohEMg0