News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
This year’s edition of UWM Research debuts online and begins hitting mailboxes this week, showcasing the work of UW-Milwaukee researchers across campus and showing how that work is making an impact.
Michael Zimmer, associate professor at the UWM School of Information Studies and director of the Center for Information Policy Research, will participate in a four year study of the ethics of “big data,” funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, PERVADE (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research), brings together […]
With a full-time job and a family, Jordan Acevedo knew it wouldn’t be easy to go back to school to change careers. UWM’s online program made it possible.
As another class of UWM graduates prepares to set forth into the world, here’s a look at a few of those students with the faculty members who most inspired them and pushed them to succeed.
The Center for Information Policy Research at UWM’s School of Information Studies has been awarded a National Leadership Grants for Libraries award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The $90,000 grant will fund the project “Library Values & Privacy in our National Digital Strategies: Field guides, Convenings, and Conversations.” The center, directed by […]
Hope Olson, professor emerita at UWM’s School of Information Studies, has received the 2017 Margaret Mann citation from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services for outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification. The ALCTS’s Cataloging and Metadata Management Section will present the citation on June 24 at the 2017 American Library Association conference […]
Copyright law isn’t just the stuff of legal journals. It has broad implications in international development as well as the inherent tension between content creators and consumers, and SOIS Dean Tomas Lipinski is at the forefront of the discussion.
UWM researchers rethink how people with vision loss can better experience the internet.
Shana Ponelis, assistant professor in the School of Information Studies, has been awarded a fellowship through the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to travel to South Africa to work with the University of Zululand’s Department of Information Studies. Ponelis, whose work focuses on entrepreneurship, education and information ethics, will work on curriculum co-development, mentoring of graduate […]
“If this isn’t what UWM is about, I don’t know what is.” UWM Chancellor Mark Mone was referring to nonprofIT, the School of Information Studies program that matches local nonprofits with teams of SOIS students who provide information technology assistance that the organizations might not otherwise be able to afford. Mone spoke at a showcase […]
