Zeynep Tufekci on the coronavirus surge and Trump’s authoritarian attempts

January 4, 2021

Zeynep Tufekci, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), offers insights and advice on the escalating pandemic and President Donald Trump’s grabs for power in her recent columns for The Atlantic. Zeynep Tufekci…Read more

Amelia Gibson completes Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars program

December 19, 2020

Amelia Gibson, Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), graduate from the Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars (FES) program in a virtual ceremony hosted by the Carolina Center of Public Service on Dec. 11, 2020. Gib…Read more

SILS Distinguished Alumna Irene Owens establishes fund for diversity and global programs

December 15, 2020

Dr. Irene Owens, PhD SILS Distinguished Alumna Irene Owens (PhD ’95) has created a fund to support new students of color and those interested in issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS). T…Read more

Equity and Inclusion

David Gotz and collaborators chronicle the rapid deployment of COVID-19 dashboard in JAMIA

December 11, 2020

David Gotz, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and Assistant Director of the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP)(link is external), teamed with two other University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill…Read more

Health Informatics

Javed Mostafa finishing term as JASIST editor

December 11, 2020

Javed Mostafa, Professor and Director of the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP), will complete his five-year term as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) in January 2021. Mostafa br…Read more

Health Informatics

Maggie Melo co-authors book on cultivating inclusive, equitable makerspaces

November 13, 2020

Maggie Melo, Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), and Jennifer Nichols, Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Arizona, have co-authored a new collection that captures how librarians and educato…Read more

SILS professors offer election analyses in national publications

November 11, 2020

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Zeynep Tufekci, and Francesca Tripodi, faculty members at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and researchers with the Center for Information, Techology, and Public Life (CITAP), recently wrote columns fo…Read more

SILS Faculty and Students at ASIS&T

October 20, 2020

Faculty and students from the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) will be part of several workshops and presentations at the ASIS&T Virtual Annual Meeting, starting Thursday, Oct. 22. Ryan Shaw, SILS Associate Professor Conceptua…Read more

SILS researchers collaborate on multi-university project to improve neuroscience data sharing

October 8, 2020

Given the significant time and resources needed for most neuroimaging research, scientists in the field could greatly benefit from reusing data collected by other scientists. Unfortunately, current databases are disconnected, incomplete, and often di…Read more

Tressie McMillan Cottom named 2020 MacArthur Fellow

October 6, 2020

  Tressie McMillan Cottom, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been named a fellow in the MacArthur Foundation’s Class of 2020. MacArthur Fellows are selected for their “extraordinary originality…Read more