Advancing knowledge and practice wherever people interact with information and technology

School of Information student Ankit Bansal is the recipient of the Spring 2019 Curtis B. Smith Cybersecurity Fellowship, which supports high achieving students at the I School with research interests in the field of cybersecurity.

“We think Ankit Bansal has not only demonstrated a clear commitment to promoting cybersecurity,” the fellowship committee wrote, “he has also shined and has earned positive attention for Berkeley in his engagements with Y-Combinator and Magic Leap.”

Pioneering Berkeley alumna Eliza Atkins Gleason (M.A. ’36) was the first African American to earn a doctorate in library science.

Gleason was one of the few librarians and library-science educators of her generation who understood the complexities of race hidden in the popular and professional rhetoric touting equal access to information and reading material. An influential figure in librarianship’s history, Gleason remains relevant as libraries and information schools identify and address continuing information injustices.