While attending sporting events, few fans stop to think about what really creates the exciting atmosphere they experience. Sure, games can be fun to watch, but what if there was no music in the stadium? What if the big screens displayed a simple canvas with just the score? What if there were no bright signs …
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Seminole Productions Alumna Takes Talent to Philadelphia Eagles
iSchool Up North: Professors Present at LOEX Annual Conference
The Library Orientation Exchange (LOEX) hosted its annual conference on May 9-11 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two iSchool professors, Dr. Melissa Gross and Dr. Don Latham, presented “A Framework for the Frames: Using the Peritextual Literacy Framework to Teach the ACRL Frames” at this year’s event. The presentation focused on teaching an audience that was brand new to …
CONTINUE READINGDr. Yolanda Rankin to Present in Glasgow
Dr. Yolanda A. Rankin, an Assistant Professor for the School of Information, will be presenting her paper “Exploring the Plurality of Black Women’s Gameplay Experiences” at the 2019 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction, May 4th – 9th in Glasgow, UK. Few gender-focused studies of video …
CONTINUE READINGBarton-Hulsey and Romano Presented at National Conference
At the beginning of April, two Assistant Professors in the School of Communication Science and Disorders presented their research at the 52nd Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in San Antonio, Texas. This is known as “one of the premier conferences in the United States for behavioral scientists conducting research …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Alumna Receives Honor from Kentucky Senate for Work with Beecher Terrace Community
Earlier this year Natalie Woods (’14, M.S. Information) was recognized by the Senate of Kentucky for her extraordinary work with Louisville’s Beecher Terrace Community. What used to be government housing is being redeveloped as part of a $29.5 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to transform the public housing complex into a mixed-income, …
CONTINUE READINGMeet Daniel Phelps: iSchool Alumnus and Program Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Information Systems Program in Qatar
In 2007, Daniel Phelps (’97 B.A. Arts and Sciences, ’98, M.S. Information Studies, ’05 Ph.D. Information) moved to Doha, Qatar as part of a two-year contract with SEI/CERT, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center administered by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). While he was there, CMU developed the Information Systems Program at the Qatar campus, which …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool Goes International: Professor Paul Marty Presents in Qatar
While most of us were soaking up some sun and avoiding work this past spring break, iSchool Professor and Assistant Dean Paul Marty (’02, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) was traveling to Northwestern University’s Qatar campus on the Persian Gulf, where he was invited to speak at the inaugural symposium for the new Media Majlis Museum in …
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