Alumni News

Jens Grossklags (Ph.D. 2009) Awarded Haile Family Early Career Professorship

Dec 6, 2012

Grossklags is an assistant professor at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology.

danah boyd Joins I School Advisory Board

Nov 26, 2012

Social media researcher danah boyd is joining the School of Information Advisory Board. Dr. boyd is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, a leading scholar of the online lives of today’s youth, and a 2008 alumna of the I School.

Howard Besser<br />(photo by <a href="http://flic.kr/p/4BtMDN">Rick Prelinger</a>)

Howard Besser (Ph.D. 1997), Activist Archivists, and Digital Preservation

Nov 13, 2012

Besser and his team from NYU faced social, political, and technical challenges in archiving the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Ruchi Kumar (MIMS ’09) represented SAP Labs to recruit current I School students.

Companies — and Alumni — Flock to Career Fair to Hire School of Information Students

Oct 30, 2012

New Book by Yuri Takhteyev (Ph.D. ’09) Explores the Globalization of Software Development

Oct 25, 2012

Bailey Smith & Anne Wootton receive the Knight News Challenge award at the Online News Association Conference.

I School Alums Win Prestigious Knight News Challenge

Oct 2, 2012

The Pop-Up Archive, first developed as a 2012 MIMS final project, is an open-source software system to streamline the entire workflow of a radio producer. Now the Archive is the winner of a $300,000 Knight News Challenge grant.

A Usability Analysis of Tablets as Books, by Alum Dan Turner (MIMS '11)

Sep 26, 2012

“All of Us or None,” an exhibit of posters at the Oakland Museum of California, was curated by I School alum Lincoln Cushing.

Lincoln Cushing (MIMS ’01) Curates Poster Exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California

Jul 25, 2012

Cushing is an author, archivist, and long-time scholar of political posters.

Daily Beast Features 2009 Master's Project tldr, by Alumnus Srikanth Narayan

Jul 16, 2012

The Challenges of Designing Mobile User Experiences

Jul 9, 2012

Suzanne Ginsburg will be teaching the new course “Designing Mobile Experiences” at the School of Information in Fall 2012. Ginsburg talks about her upcoming course and the biggest challenges when designing for mobile devices.