
February 2016
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SILS to honor musician Roger McGuinn for digital preservation achievement
In recognition of McGuinn’s work with the Folk Den, SILS has named him the inaugural recipient of its Digital Preservation Under the Radar Award. McGuinn will be presented the award prior to his lecture and performance on March 1 at UNC's CHAT Festival. Click to read more. |
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Nominations invited for SILS teaching excellence awards
SILS students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit nominations for the 2016 Deborah Barreau Award for Teaching Excellence. SILS will recognize two outstanding faculty members, one full-time and one adjunct. Click to read more.
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Remembering Dr. David Carr
David Wildon Carr, former associate professor at SILS, died January 31, 2016. SILS welcomes your thoughts, memories, and condolences on our remembrance page. Friends, colleagues, and former students are planning a memorial gathering Saturday, March 12, at 7 p.m. at the Chapel Hill Public Library |
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Read the first JASIST editorial by SILS Professor Javed Mostafa
Mostafa became editor-and-chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) in January. Click here to read his first editorial, "Onward," from the February 2016 edition |
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SILS alumnus Miles Efron named Centennial Scholar
Miles Efron (MSIS ’00, PhD ’03) has been named the Centennial Scholar for 2015-2016 by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Click to read more. |
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Justin Kreft’s research on body camera data featured in ‘endeavors’
Justin Kreft, a master’s student studying public administration and information science at UNC, is collecting information to help agencies determine how much data they can expect from police body cameras and how to best organize the files. Click to read more. |
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Upcoming Events |
- Interactive Visual Discovery in Event Analytics Electronic Health Records and Other Applications - Special presentation by Ben Shneiderman - February 22, 2:30 p.m., Manning 01
- 2016 OCLC/Kilgour Lecture - Ben Shneiderman, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, will share insights from his latest book, The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations, on Monday, February 22, at 10:30 a.m. in the Pleasant’s Family Room of Wilson Library
- 2016 Steinfirst Lecture in Children's Literature - Matt de la Peña, 2016 John Newbery Medal Winner and NY Times bestselling author, will deliver the Susan Steinfirst Memorial Lecture in Children's Literature, "Reading (and Writing) from the 'Wrong Side of the Tracks',” on Sunday, March 13, at 3 p.m. at the main branch of the Durham County Library.
- Health Informatics Seminar: "FHIR–Holy Grail of Interoperability" - February 24, 4-5 p.m., HSL 227
- Health Informatics Seminar: "Using Medicare Data to Estimate Costs of Dementia at End of Life" - March 2, 4-5 p.m., HSL 227
- Study Abroad and Your Career - March 4, 12-1 p.m., Manning 01
- CHIIR 2016 - March 13-17, 2016, Chapel Hill
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This Week |
- Learn more about the Lenovo Tech World internships
On Thursday, February 18, at 5 p.m. in the Freedom Forum of Carroll Hall, Lenovo Vice President for Global Communications Jeff Shafer will tell UNC students about an exciting summer opportunity with Lenovo in RTP and either Beijing or San Francisco. This is a paid opportunity with all travel and job expenses covered.
- Applying Health Informatics to Improve Depression Care for Patients with Diabetes
Please join us for a special presentation, “Applying Health Informatics to Improve Depression Care Delivery for Patients with Diabetes,” by Haomiao Jun on Friday, February 19, at 9 a.m. in Manning 01.
- SILS Seminar: “When is a Rock not a Rock? Exploiting Ontologies for Personalized Search and Recommendations”
We hope you can join us this Friday, February 19, at 12 p.m. in Manning 208 for "'When is a Rock not a Rock? Exploiting Ontologies for Personalized Search and Recommendations" by Dr. Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas.
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Recent Student Recognition |
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Editor's Note |
The next issue of news@sils will be sent on Wednesday, March 16. If you have an event or news item you would like to have featured, be sure to submit it through the event form or in an email to kpearl@email.unc.edu by March 14.
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