The Power to Transform Lives

The iSchools are interested in the relationship between information, people and technology. This is characterized by a commitment to learning and understanding the role of information in human endeavors. The iSchools take it as given that expertise in all forms of information is required for progress in science, business, education, and culture. This expertise must include understanding of the uses and users of information, as well as information technologies and their applications.

Carbo Receives von Dran Award

Dr. Toni Carbo, the program leader at the Drexel University Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento, California, who was honored as this year's von Dran Award recipient at iConference 2010. The von Dran award is intended to recognize leadership in the information field.

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Illinois’ Tilley says Tweeting, Texting are GR8 tools for Teaching

Carol Tilley

The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But according to Carol L. Tilley, a University of Illinois expert in media literacy, not only are critics who argue that texting is synonymous with literary degradation wrong, they also often overlook the bigger role that texting and its distant cousin, "tweeting," could play in education and research.

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I use computational approaches to model how genes interact with each other

Indiana University's School of Informatics, founded in 2000 as the first school of its kind in the United States, has officially awarded its first PhD in informatics. The doctoral degree to James Costello was formally recorded by the university on August 31.

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