CITAP recruiting for tenure-track position

September 9, 2019

The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is searching for an outstanding assistant professor to conduct research and teach in the UNC School of Information and Library Science…Read more

DataAware introduces high school students to health data analytics

August 30, 2019

Instead of hanging with friends or binging on Netflix, 10 high school students spent part of their summers analyzing data and tackling health care challenges through the DataAware program hosted by the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP). Data…Read more

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Mary Grace Flaherty featured in ‘Public Libraries’ magazine

August 30, 2019

In a recent interview with Public Libraries, Mary Grace Flaherty, Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), discusses some of the findings and recommendations she shares in her book Promoting Individual and Comm…Read more

Anthony Holderied named Director of EPA-RTP Library

August 26, 2019

Anthony Holderied has been appointed Director of the Environmental Protection Agency Library in Research Triangle Park, effective August 26. Holderied had been Assistant Director of the EPA-RTP Library since 2013  and has 14 years of professional lib…Read more

PhD candidate Elliott Hauser wins dissertation research and best paper awards

August 22, 2019

Elliott Hauser, doctoral candidate at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information. Elliott Hauser addre…Read more

David Gotz named RTIUx Scholar

August 22, 2019

David Gotz, UNC School of Information and Library Science Associate Professor and Carolina Health Informatics Program Assistant Director, has been selected as a 2019-20 RTIUx Scholar. David Gotz, an associate professor in the UNC School of Informatio…Read more

SILS welcomes new grad students at annual fall orientation

August 19, 2019

The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) welcomed incoming master’s and doctoral students on Aug. 19 in Manning Hall. Students gathered in Manning 209, the building’s largest classroom, in the morning to hear from SILS Dean Gary March…Read more

NSF Cyber Carpentry Workshop helps early-career researchers learn to manage big data

August 2, 2019

The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) hosted its second National Science Foundation (NSF) Cyber Carpentry Workshop this summer. The program brings doctoral students and post-doctoral associates to Carolina’s campus for two weeks to…Read more

New research center gets local and national media coverage

July 31, 2019

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently announced the creation of the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP), a new research iniatiative led by faculty from the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS…Read more

Matthew Johnson (MSLS ’18) wins ASIS&T’s Pratt Severn Award

July 31, 2019

Matthew Weirick Johnson (MSLS ’18), graduate of the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award from the Association for Information Science &…Read more