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Meet and Greet with Courtney Young, former President of the American Library Association
The Syracuse University Libraries and the School of Information Studies (iSchool) will host a “meet and greet” with Courtney Young, former president of the American Library Association, on Monday, Oct. 3, from 3:30- 5 p.m. in Bird Library’s Peter Graham…
Information Security Club Takes Gold at NCAC
A team of graduate students from the Information Management and Telecommunications and Network Management programs at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) and from the College of Engineering and Computer Science have won the gold award in Phase I of the National…
Acuna Awarded NSF Grant to Make Sense of Research and Funding Data
When scientists and researchers want to apply to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a grant opportunity, the agency has a mandate to ensure that any research funded is new and transformative in the field. While an admirable goal in…
Rochelle Ford and Ping Zhang Named Provost’s Faculty Fellows
Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele G. Wheatly has announced the appointment of professors Rochelle Ford and Ping Zhang to serve as Provost’s Faculty Fellows, effective immediately. Ford is a professor and chair of the Department of Public Relations in the…
AsiaTech, EuroTech Information Sessions Scheduled
Fall information sessions for the 2017 AsiaTech and EuroTech Immersion Experience trips hosted by the School of Information Studies (iSchool) have been scheduled. These 3-credit traveling seminars expose students to some of the largest global corporations so they can see…
Kingma Hosts Group from China’s Tsinghua University
School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor of Entreprenurship Bruce Kingma hosted a group of visiting scholars from China’s Tsinghua University this week, bringing them to campus as part of a tour of East Coast colleges and universities to study how entrepreneurship…
LIS Student Selected for ALA Spectrum Scholarship
Maria Provini, a graduate student in the Library and Information Science program at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), has been named a recipient of the 2016-17 American Library Association’s Spectrum Scholarship. Provini is one of 61 recipients of the competitive…
Q&A: What’s Behind the Pokémon Go Craze?
They are everywhere. Pikachu and Venusaur and the many characters of Pokémon are taking over virtual spaces and being captured by fans with a smartphone and the downloadable Pokémon Go app by Niantic and Nintendo. The game that uses a…
Acuna Publishes Groundbreaking Chunking Research in Nature Communications
Think about a simple task you learned a long time ago, such as memorizing your phone number or learning how to tie your shoe laces. Chances are, you did this using a method called chunking. You put like things together…
Hemsley’s ‘Steel Links’ Visualization Accepted to Cooperstown Exhibition
When the 81st annual National Juried Art Exhibition opens next week at the Cooperstown Art Association, one of the pieces hanging on the wall will belong to School of Information Studies (iSchool) faculty member Jeff Hemsley. The piece of artwork…