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Iron workers raise the last beam on North Quad
(Nov 2008)
A traditional "topping off" ceremony on Tuesday, November 18 marked the placement of the last steel beam for the new North Quad living/learning complex that will include the home of the School of Information.
IT manager finds confidence, fitness through martial arts
(Nov 2008)
Philip Ray (MSI '98) makes an effort to ride his bike to work every day. Because he lives only three miles from campus, the information technology manager at the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) easily can commute on two wheels.
Her theatre work sparked interest in library science
(Nov 2008)
Molly Kleinman's love for theatre played a leading role in steering her to a job as copyright specialist and special projects librarian at Hatcher Graduate Library.
Resnick: Blogging a way to connect
(Nov 2008)
The Ann Arbor News quizzed Professor Paul Resnick about blogging and how it has changed interpersonal communications.
SI graduates rank first in 'Library Journal' salary survey
(Oct 2008)
School of Information graduates with a Master of Science in Information degree are the highest paid among all in their field, a national survey reveals.
SI Alumni Society honors four leaders in the information professions
(Oct 2008)
Kenlee Ray (AMLS '68) of Washington, D.C., Peter Morville (MILS '93) of Ann Arbor, Louis Rosenfeld (MILS '90) of Brooklyn, New York, and Josie Parker (MILS '96) of Ann Arbor will be recognized by the School of Information Alumni Society for their significant contributions to the information professions and their service to SI.
MacKie-Mason-edited volume on digital library economics published
(Oct 2008)
U-M's Scholarly Publishing Office has issued a collection of essays that grew from a research project and conference on the economics of digital libraries. Professor Jeff MacKie-Mason is co-editor of the volume.
Six internships to be created for MSI students at humanities centers
(Oct 2008)
The University of Michigan School of Information is developing a model internship program to place six master's students as fully paid summer interns in digital humanities centers in Michigan, Maryland, and Nebraska.
Alumna Elisabeth Jones wins Paul Evan Peters Fellowship
(Oct 2008)
Elisabeth Jones (MSI '07) has been honored with the 2008 Paul Evan Peters Fellowship from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Jones joins fellow alumni Christopher (Cal) Lee (MSI '99, Ph.D. '05) and Phillip M. Edwards (MSI '03) in being so honored.
1,000 Pitches contest aims to bring in new ideas
(Oct 2008)
A competition now under way at the University of Michigan aims to gather 1,000 pitches for new businesses, inventions, and nonprofit organizations by October 26. The award for winning entries in each of seven categories is $1,000.
Three SI students launch mobile tech startup
(Oct 2008)
What did you do this summer? Three MSI students spent their summer launching a tech startup with funding from an Ann Arbor-area venture capital firm.
Jill Andrews heads SI development and external relations
(Oct 2008)
Jill Andrews has joined the School of Information as director of development and external relations.
The Web and the Credibility Gap -- Why It Should Matter to You
(Oct 2008)
The transformation of the Web from a domain only site managers could change to a more democratic forum where more people can add or alter content using so-called Web 2.0 applications has created a problem -- how do you know if what you're reading is credible?
On-demand printing comes to the library
(Sep 2008)
With the installation of a state-of-the-art book-printing machine, the University of Michigan Library stands at the frontier of 21st-century publishing.
Open access champion to address privatization of knowledge at Oct 22 JSB Symposium
(Sep 2008)
Brewster Kahle, a champion of open access to all knowledge, will consider the impact of the consolidation and privatization of knowledge sources when he gives the keynote talk at the John Seely Brown Symposium on Society and Technology, 3:00 p.m., October 22, 2008.
U-M and SI launch new Information Age major: Informatics
(Sep 2008)
University of Michigan undergraduates have a new major on their list of choices, one highly relevant in the age of Google and Web 2.0: informatics.
SI's Krause and Yakel win SAA's Posner Award
(Sep 2008)
Magia Ghetu Krause, a PhD candidate at SI, and Elizabeth Yakel, associate professor of information, have won the Society of American Archivists' 2008 Fellows' Ernst Posner Award for their essay, "Interaction in Virtual Archives: The Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections Next Generation Finding Aid."
Atkins named U-M associate vice president, cyberinfrastructure
(Sep 2008)
The U-M community will benefit from School of Information Professor Daniel E. Atkins' knowledge of cyberinfrastructure through his new part-time role with the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Office of the Provost.
Radev coaches linguists to olympiad victories
(Aug 2008)
Assistant Professor Dragomir Radev helped coach a team of U.S. high school students at the sixth International Linguistics Olympiad in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria. The event is one of a dozen international science olympiads for high school students.
Bluffing could be common in prediction markets, study shows
(Jul 2008)
A new mathematical model suggests that bluffing in prediction markets is a profitable strategy more often than previously thought.
Yakel IMLS grant project fosters digital preservation education and internships
(Jun 2008)
Associate Professor Elizabeth Yakel will head a multi-institution grant project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to carry out "Engaging Communities to Foster Internships for Preservation and Digital Curation."
Alumna Ruth J. Person Named Chancellor of U-M Flint Campus
(May 2008)
Ruth J. Person (AMLS, '69. Ph.D., '80) has been named the seventh chancellor of the University of Michigan-Flint campus.
Lawson, Eriksen cited for professional achievements
(May 2008)
School of Information staff members Judy Lawson and Nathan Eriksen have been recognized for professional achievements.
Three doctoral students capture SI awards
(May 2008)
Three School of Information doctoral students have won awards for research and teaching.
SI recognizes 107 degree candidates at April ceremony
(May 2008)
The first students from the School of Information's newest specializations were among the degree candidates honored at the Graduate Recognition Ceremony on April 25.
Mark Ackerman's SocialWorlds research group: Melding social science and technology
(Apr 2008)
Though he did his graduate work in computer science and information technologies, Mark Ackerman's undergraduate degree was in "history in the social sciences," and both the technology and the social science influences are clear in the work of his SocialWorlds research group.
Online magazine Concentrate features SI student projects
(Apr 2008)
The April 23rd, 2008, issue of Concentrate magazine has a feature on SI student projects, "the next evolutionary stage in information technology."
SI study finds Yahoo Answers users seek advice, opinion, as well as expertise
(Apr 2008)
One of the first large-scale analyses of how people share knowledge on Yahoo Answers has found that participants use the site to exchange advice and opinions, in addition to technical expertise.
SI Research and Innovation Office adds wiki, online grants database
(Apr 2008)
SI's Research and Innovation Office has two new resources online for faculty and students involved in research: a research wiki and a database of active research grants.
Clarkson and Frost win grant to develop digital museums with tribal communities
(Apr 2008)
Two SI researchers have won a $200,000 NSF grant to work with American Indian communities developing "digital tribal museums" while also bringing new educational opportunities in computer science and information to reservations.
SI team takes second in CHI 2008 Student Design Competition
(Apr 2008)
An SI team's system that used social networking tools to encourage volunteerism finished second in the CHI 2008 Conference Student Design Competition.
Dean Martha Pollack paper named highly influential by professional group
(Apr 2008)
A paper coauthored by SI Dean Martha E. Pollack has won a 2008 influential paper award from the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).
Margaret Hedstrom featured in New York Times story on digital preservation
(Apr 2008)
Associate Professor Margaret Hedstrom is featured in an article on digital preservation in the April 9, 2008 New York Times.
Ph.D. students take honorable mention in North Campus design contest
(Mar 2008)
A team of doctoral students from SI and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning earned an honorable mention for their submission in the first Work/Play competition at the U-M.
Lada Adamic wins prestigious NSF CAREER Award
(Mar 2008)
Assistant Professor Lada Adamic has won a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the NSF -- given to the top young researchers nationwide each year -- for proposed work on the social dynamics of information in virtual spaces.
Atkins is first Kellogg Professor in Community Information
(Mar 2008)
A lifelong commitment to empowering communities through the strength of global computing has earned Daniel E. Atkins an appointment as the first Kellogg Professor in Community Information at the School of Information.
MSI student Andrew Hunt a Digital Library Federation fellow
(Mar 2008)
Andrew Hunt, an MSI student specializing in Archives and Records Management, has been selected one of four national Digital Library Federation fellows and will attend the federation's spring forum in Minnesota.
SI student projects displayed at 2008 expoSItion
(Mar 2008)
So many student projects were on display at the 2008 expoSItion that some groups had to set up in the hallway outside. Winning project submissions have been announced.
Dean Pollack delivers upbeat State of the School address
(Mar 2008)
"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!" That's the message Dean Martha Pollack closed with in her first "State of the School" talk on March 12th.
iSchool at Michigan does i-Conference at UCLA
(Mar 2008)
Having hosted the previous i-conference in late 2006, U-M's School of Information was all over the 2008 i-conference. Literally.
Tiffany Veinot to join SI faculty in fall 2008
(Mar 2008)
Tiffany Veinot will join the faculty of the School of Information as an assistant professor. Her primary academic field is Library and Information Services.
Newman is latest distinguished addition to SI's HCI faculty
(Mar 2008)
SI's newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Mark Newman, comes to SI with a research career at the legendary PARC, a Ph.D. in computer science from UC-Berkeley, and a passion for making ubiquitous computing, well, ubiquitous.
Internet pioneer Atkins receives Paul Evan Peters Award
(Feb 2008)
Professor Daniel E. Atkins, whose work has made it easier for scientists to collaborate online across the globe, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award, joining Tim Berners-Lee, Vinton Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Paul Ginsparg in being so honored.
Projects show SI's HCI strengths
(Feb 2008)
HCI projects at SI are many. Recent examples range from an AJAX interface for quickly browsing comments at SlashDot to visualizations of paths students take through the SI curriculum.
Rackham presents Outstanding GSI Award to Libby Hemphill
(Feb 2008)
Doctoral student Libby Hemphill has been awarded an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for the 2007-08 academic year.
SI student teams reach semifinals in CHI 2008 Student Design Competition
(Feb 2008)
For the third year in a row, SI is sending teams of students to the semifinal round of the Student Design Competition at the CHI conference. Will SI bring home gold again?
MBooks project reaches one-million-volume milestone
(Feb 2008)
The Michigan Digitization Project collaboration between U-M and Google has thus far transcribed 16 miles of books into 42 terabytes of data. The result: U-M now has one million volumes online.
Computational Linguistics Olympiad comes to Ann Arbor
(Feb 2008)
On February 5th local high school students tested their wits by solving language problems as part of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO). SI faculty played key roles.
Ph.D. student Munson wins Yahoo! Key Technical Challenges grant
(Feb 2008)
SI doctoral student Sean Munson has been awarded a Key Technical Challenges (KTC) grant from Yahoo!. The award will mean $5,000 and a trip to a summer Yahoo! workshop.
Hedstrom recognized as a "Digital Preservation Pioneer" by Library of Congress
(Feb 2008)
We always knew it; now the Library of Congress has confirmed it. Associate Professor Margaret Hedstrom is profiled as a Digital Preservation Pioneer on the LoC Web site.
SI congratulates three new Ph.D.s.
(Jan 2008)
Matt Bietz, Jun Zhang, and Airong Luo are SI's newest Ph.D.s.
Rieh grant part of project to transform the IPL
(Jan 2008)
Assistant Professor Soo Young Rieh has been awarded $75,000 as part of a larger, three-year grant for "Transforming the Internet Public Library," or IPL.
SI students show off cool network visualization projects
(Jan 2008)
Disease transmission. Free-riding on file-sharing networks. Micro-loan repayment in developing economies. The viral spread of FaceBook applications. SI students tackle all of these -- and more -- using networks analysis tools. The results are striking.
MSI student attends cultural heritage curator program in Paris
(Dec 2007)
MSI student Anne Bast fell in love with France on a six-month study abroad as an undergraduate. Now she's returning to Paris to continue her education and her immersion in French culture at the prestigious Institut National du Patrimoine.
Yan Chen promoted to full professor
(Dec 2007)
SI faculty member Yan Chen has been promoted to the rank of full professor by the U-M Board of Regents.
SI well-represented in annual GROCS competition
(Dec 2007)
The work of School of Information master's and doctoral students has been cited in the annual GROCS Student Research Awards competition.
SI team's paper wins AMIA award
(Dec 2007)
A team of researchers that included SI students and faculty earned a Distinguished Paper Award at the American Medical Informatics Association's (AMIA) annual meeting in Chicago in November.
Gary M. Olson named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
(Dec 2007)
University of Michigan faculty member Gary M. Olson has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), widely recognized as the premier professional organization in computing.
Importance of standards focus of IPOL series talk
(Nov 2007)
Carl Cargill, director of standards at Sun Microsystems, will speak on "Going Global: The New Social, Economic, and Political Life of Standardization" at the School of Information.
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