David Gotz named McColl Term Professor, promoted to full professorship

November 1, 2021

David Gotz, associate professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been appointed to serve as the next Frances Carroll McColl Term Professor through July 2023. Additionally, Gotz has been promoted to full professor at SI…Read more

Francesca Tripodi, co-researchers receive $750k NSF grant for research project on misinformation

October 29, 2021

False news is everywhere, and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is exploring ways to help people sort through the swarm of bad information. Francesca Tripodi, an assistant professor at the UNC School of Information and Li…Read more

Register now for the Symposium on AI and Knowledge Work

August 30, 2021

As part of its 90th anniversary celebration, the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) is hosting a year-long examination of how technological developments and social upheavals, including those ushered by the COVID-19 pandemic, will sh…Read more

Next SILS faculty ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Friday

August 26, 2021

As part of its 90th anniversary celebration, the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) is hosting a series of faculty Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions. The next event on Friday, Aug. 27, will feature SILS Associate Professor Jaime Arguel…Read more

First SILS faculty ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Friday

August 19, 2021

As part of its 90th anniversary celebration, the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) is hosting a series of faculty Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions, starting Friday, Aug. 20. The first event will feature SILS Alumni Distinguished Prof…Read more

Fall welcome message from Dean Gary Marchionini

August 18, 2021

Gary Marchionini,  Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), sent the following message to SILS students, faculty, and staff on August 18, the first day of classes for the fall 2021…Read more

Tressie McMillan Cottom pens cover story for Vanity Fair

August 6, 2021

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), spent part of her summer interviewing musician and mogul Sean Combs and writing an expansive profile of “the original influencer,” which became…Read more

Francesca Tripodi spotlights gender inequality on Wikipedia in recent paper and interviews

August 3, 2021

Francesca Tripodi, Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), recently published a paper examining why biographies about women who meet Wikipedia’s criteria for inclusion are more frequently considered non-notabl…Read more

Mohammad Jarrahi publishes new research on flexible work and algorithmic management

July 23, 2021

Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), is lead author on two recent articles examining how new technologies are shaping the future of work. SILS Associate Professor Mohammad Hossein…Read more

Virtual HiDAV boot camp helps participants see real opportunities in health informatics

July 23, 2021

As an aspiring physician and biology major at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Kailyn Sellers never envisioned herself coding, text mining, or conducting large scale data analysis, activities she associated more with comput…Read more