Student Spotlight on Jacob Harris
Jacob Harris, B.S. Data Science, secured a summer internship with Ericsson.
Department of Information Science News Item
Jacob Harris, B.S. Data Science, secured a summer internship with Ericsson.
UNT's Salute to Faculty Excellence event is hosted each spring by Faculty Success and the UNT Foundation. It is just one of the many ways UNT honors the dedicated faculty members whose innovative research, pedagogy, and service continue our university's tradition of prestige.
The 2022 Salute to Faculty Excellence Awards Celebration was held Tuesday, April 19, 2022 in the Murchison Performing Arts Center.
Seth Wells M.S. Library Science (Metadata Intern at the Library of Congress)
2021 inductee to Clawbies Hall of Fame, David Whelan: The Hall of Fame recognizes the hard work of these authors and also makes space for new voices in the main awards. This year’s inductees will no longer be considered for annual Clawbies, but they are recognized with a Hall of Fame badge for their use, as well as a notation of the honour at lawblogs.ca.
Veronique Medrano not only plays Tejano music, but she's studying for a degree at UNT in information sciences to preserve its history.
Written by: Jessica DeLeón
Originally published under North Texan
When she started graduate school, Adela Justice, AHIP, was a reserved person, but Dr. Yvonne Chandler brought her out of her shell. Adela gigged as a violist with the Denton Community Orchestra while finishing her B.A. in music at UNT. But when a hand injury sidelined her music career, she had to find a plan B. “That’s when my mom sent me a newspaper article about the information superhighway,” she recalls. So, Adela took a chance on information science at UNT. She applied for graduate work-study and received a teaching assistantship with Dr. Chandler.
kYmberly was selected to receive The National Trust for Historic Preservation Diversity Scholarship for PastForward 2021 Online, November 2nd-5th. She applied to the conference this year to be a part of the entire dynamic that will take place with regard to preservation. She is a PhD Student in Information Science, majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of North Texas.
MS Library Science 2021
w/Youth Services Certification and Librarian Certification
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Cary Jim and teammates win Open Data Challenge from Microsoft
It’s a win Cary Jim and her teammates hope to use to close a digital divide across the country. Jim, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Information Science, partnered with a group of researchers at Purdue University, to win a global contest sponsored by Microsoft. Jim discovered the contest after reading about the digital challenges of online education during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dr. John Turner and his co-authors Nigel Thurlow and Brian Rivera were interviewed InfoQ, an online magazine in the software development field to discuss their new publication The Flow System: The Evolution of Agile and Lean Thinking in an Age of Complexity. The book uses team science to understand how organizations can operate and adapt work to complex environments and be innovative, adaptive, and resilient.