This April, the School of Information Science held its first annual SIS Showcase. It featured over 10 different posters and presentations of faculty and staff excellence in research, teaching, and other professional activities. Thanks to everyone who came out and made the event a success! #ukinfosci
Join us in congratulating our Class of 2025 School of Information Science graduates 🥳🎓
Did you catch any of our many SIS students presenting at the UK Office of Undergraduate Research's 19th Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Scholars?? In case you missed it, here are some of the students with their posters 🤩👏
What do first-gen grads remember most at graduation?
Check out this article highlighting research co-authored by America Edwards (assistant professor). The study looks at messages parents give their kids during this milestone and why they matter so much 💬🎓
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cons...
Hello UK students! Teacher/Course Evaluations are an importance source of feedback that instructors use to improve their courses and programs, and they are available now for you to submit!
Did you know? Students who take our Multimedia and Technology class get to submit proposals to be featured as the newest emojis through Unicode! 😃👍💅💃🤳🧠
Read more about the project in the article linked below, and view the full Pinky Promise presentation here: ci.uky.edu/sis/students...
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Please join us in congratulating Nicholas Wadley and Fernanda Fuentes, our 2024-2025 Outstanding ICT Junior and Senior! These students were chosen by their faculty as the top upperclassmen in ICT 🥳👏🙌
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Check out the latest issue of Against the Grain and read Sean Burns' (associate professor) piece on electronic resource management!
Read the full piece on pages 32-33 of the issue: issuu.com/against-the-...
(Also check out our UK SIS profile on pages 54-55 🤩)
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America Edwards (assistant professor) has won the Dissertation of the Year award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the International Communication Association @icahdq.bsky.social. Way to go, America! 🥳
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Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵