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Elizabeth Goodman Discusses Community-Based Design of Urban Green Spaces

Sep 16, 2011

Goodman is delivering a keynote address in this week’s IDSA International Conference in New Orleans. The 2011 conference, sponsored by the Industrial...

What is the School of Information?

Sep 9, 2011

Students, alumni, and faculty describe what the I School means to them.

I School Kicks Off the Year by Welcoming New Students

Aug 30, 2011

The four new doctoral students and 40 new MIMS students come from countries such as China, Germany, India, Korea, and Taiwan and companies like Frog...

(photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnealepics/5809840459/">Lisa Neale</a>)

Computerized pen helps students with disabilities in unexpected ways

Aug 16, 2011

Four I School students evaluated a pilot test by the UC Berkeley Disabled Students Program, providing Livescribe computerized pens to students...

Cal Educamp explores the nexus of new technology and teaching

Aug 8, 2011

Unconference participants re-imagine — and blog and tweet about — 21st-century education.

New Grant Supports Josh Blumenstock's Research on "Mobile Money" and the 2008 Rwandan Earthquake

Aug 5, 2011

Blumenstock is analyzing a database of every interpersonal monetary transfer over Rwanda's primary telecom network from 2005-2009, including over 1...

Most Facebook Users are Very Uncomfortable With App Data-Sharing — But Use The Apps Anyway

Jul 15, 2011

Although most Facebook users claim to be very uncomfortable with how third-party apps use their personal information, their actual behavior doesn’t...

Students Devote Summer Internships to Non-Profits and Public Interest Causes

Jun 28, 2011

Many I School students are bucking the conventional wisdom by devoting their summer internships to non-profit or public interest organizations, both...

NextDrop provides reliable, near real-time water-arrival information to households with unreliable piped water.

NextDrop Project Wins Prestigious Knight News Challenge Prize

Jun 23, 2011

NextDrop addresses the challenge of unreliable piped water in developing countries by providing households with reliable, near real-time information...