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December 5, 2022
Join the IAACC for a discussion of the book “The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival“, film screening, and a public roundtable...
November 28, 2022
PhD student and folk singer-songwriter Camille Intson has won this year’s Ontario Arts Council Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award for her song Winter, which euphoniously recounts unrequited love and loneliness, and was...
November 11, 2022
For its popular and growing co-op program, introduced in 2016, the Faculty of Information partners with a wide range of employers in the public and...
November 8, 2022
Several faculty members and students from the Faculty of Information and other UofT departments will be presenting work at the upcoming CSCW 2022 conference, the...
November 4, 2022
Professor Kelly Lyons has been appointed Acting Vice-Dean, Research and Program Innovation at the School of Graduate Studies from January 1, 2023 to June 30,...
October 28, 2022
Having been encouraged to think big by her Museum Studies professors, Emily Berg (class of 2018) decided to take a chance earlier this year and...
October 19, 2022
PhD candidate Cansu Ekmekcioglu has been awarded the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) New Leader Award for 2023. Ekmekcioglu, whose studies encompass human-computer...
October 14, 2022
Statistical software is an increasingly important aspect of the work of statisticians and data scientists. CANSSI Ontario and the Faculty of Information are excited to...
September 26, 2022
The summer 2022 issue of the iJournal, focusing on Difficult Memories and the Museum, is out. “We’re really excited about this issue as it highlights...
September 26, 2022
“I think at some point, I realised that if I was going to live the life I wanted, I had to be fine with the...
September 23, 2022
The Faculty of Information is holding a Fall Picnic on Tuesday October 4 from 12-2 p.m. If you’re a student, faculty member or staffer, we...
September 23, 2022
CANSSI Ontario’s 2022 Research Day puts the much debated question of What is Data Science? to some of the top researchers in the field, including...
August 25, 2022
The Equity, Diversity & Inclusion unit at the Faculty of Information is now hiring for 2 work-study positions! Deadline to apply: August 31, 2022 Apply...
August 12, 2022
Professor Wendy Duff will be stepping down as Dean of the Faculty of Information on December 31, 2022, UofT Vice-President and Provost, Cheryl Regehr, announced...
July 8, 2022
The Faculty of Information has recently welcomed a new Acting Dean, a new Associate Dean Research, and two new tenure track professors. At the same...
July 5, 2022
Several Faculty of Information students and professors take a fresh look Ursula Franklin’s pioneering work on the impacts of technology in a new essay collection...
June 3, 2022
The Faculty of Information conferred almost 300 degrees this spring. The Class of ‘22 comprised: 23 Bachelor of Information grads 219 Master of Information grads ...
June 2, 2022
When Elizabeth Kalbfleisch enrolled at the Faculty of Information to study Library and Archives, she was looking to redirect her career and better understand how...
May 4, 2022
Anasuya Sengupta will give the first of a series of public talks as part of the Knowledge Equity and Justice Spring Seminar Tune into the...
April 25, 2022
Several Faculty of Information professors and students will be presenting at the CHI22 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international conference of...
April 22, 2022
It’s exhibition season for students in the Museum Studies capstone class. Look for nine exhibition projects to launch over the next few weeks, the first...
April 22, 2022
For the second year in a row, the Faculty of Information is holding its Toronto Human-AI Interaction Summer Research School, which will once again be...
March 29, 2022
Five Bachelor of Information students participated in the first annual hackathon hosted by UX Laurier, “UXL Designathon: Imagination in the Mundane,” a virtual designation dedicated...
March 14, 2022
Welcome to the Knowledge Equity and Justice Spring Seminar! Dates: May 9th to May 26th, 2022. The transmission and circulation of knowledge within information systems...
March 2, 2022
Message from the Faculty of Information We would like to express our heartfelt support for all members of our community who have been impacted by...
February 23, 2022
This article by Blair Attard-Frost, a PhD student researching the governance of artificial intelligence, was published in the Globe and Mail on February 21 In...
February 18, 2022
This Black History Month, our goal at the Faculty of Information is to highlight our Black staff, faculty, and students to showcase their professional and...
February 11, 2022
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, Faculty of Information Professor Jenna Hartel has put together a short video bringing together two of her favorite concepts...
February 9, 2022
The newly appointed director of the McLuhan Centre, Scott Richmond, wants to shift its programming to focus on art and aesthetics with a special emphasis...
January 26, 2022
Associate Professor Sarah Sharma has finished her term of Director of the Faculty of Information’s McLuhan Centre and will take on a new role as...
January 25, 2022
For alumna Vicki Whitmell, who recently retired from her role as a sessional lecturer at the Faculty of Information, teaching the popular practicum course was...
January 21, 2022
Dear Students, This message replaces and supersedes my earlier Winter Term message, that was sent earlier this week on Wednesday, January 19. Please note that...
January 13, 2022
“Getting Back on Track: The Changing Role of Passenger Rail in Southern Ontario” is a digital exhibition project being created by four Master of Museum...
December 21, 2021
The Faculty of Information is pleased to bring you the first in a series of research reports, which detail what our professors and scholars are...
December 16, 2021
Dear Students and Colleagues, Wednesday evening (December 15), you received a message from the acting Provost informing you that, due to the Omicron variant, the...
December 16, 2021
The University of Toronto will delay most in-person learning until Jan. 31 to help curb the spread of COVID-19 amid the emergence of the Omicron...
November 18, 2021
Congratulations to all 101 of our November 2021 graduates from the Faculty of Information, whose names you will find below: Master of Information Reem Alasadi ...
November 2, 2021
When Stacy Allison-Cassin began teaching students at the Faculty of Information how to understand the tools, techniques and practices of documenting cultural records, she chose...
September 3, 2021
Through This Lens – an exhibition curated by 2020 Museum Studies Alumnus Sabryna Ruggles Ekstein and presented in partnership with Artscape Youngplace, features photography by Sabryna’s grandfather,...
