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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
Cal Lee and Kam Woods to lead new redaction software project with $300K NSF grant
July 14, 2021
A $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support a new project at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) to develop software that can identify and redact sensitive information within research-related datasets…Read more
Zeynep Tufekci examines possible origins and undeniable implications of SARS-CoV-2
June 25, 2021
In a guest essay for the New York Times, Zeynep Tufekci, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), gives a thorough review of facts and theories surrounding the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. “Once a rare event, like…Read more
SILS alumna Katherine Wisser named Fellow of the Society of American Archivists
June 25, 2021
Katherine Wisser (MSLS ’00, PhD ’09), Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Science and Director of the Archives Concentration and Archives Certificate programs at Simmons University in Boston, Mass., will be inducted as a Fell…Read more