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September 13, 2023
The latest venture for Mike Borg (Class of 2012) is a company that uses microscopic barcodes made from baker’s yeast to trace products in the...
September 7, 2023
Assistant Professor Shion Guha, who is also a Schwartz Reisman Faculty Fellow this year, is giving an SRI Seminar Series talk on predictive risk models,...
September 5, 2023
The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society is pleased to announce the appointment of three distinguished University of Toronto faculty members, including two Faculty...
September 1, 2023
“I don’t want our field to be just a problem/solution field,” says Javed Mostafa, the new Faculty of Information Dean. (Photo by Polina Teif) The...
August 21, 2023
The Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series, held online last spring, was designed to highlight the many different pathways available to students of archives. Keith Cheng...
August 17, 2023
Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing “eyeballs”: these all seem like such recent features of our lives. And yet, Lee McGuigan tells us in this...
August 11, 2023
When Ana Villegas enrolled in the Faculty of Information’s Master of Museum Studies Program, after completing her BA in history, she was looking for ways...
August 10, 2023
The Dis/Usability monthly cross-disciplinary speaker and workshop series looks at the intersection between technology and disability justice. On Friday, August 18, 2023, 11am – 12pm, please...
July 31, 2023
Faculty of Information Assistant Professor Rohan Alexander’s new book, Telling Stories with Data, is winning rave reviews from some of the biggest names in the...
July 18, 2023
Canadian and Chinese artists consider the timely topic of smog in a new exhibit curated by PhD candidate Yan Zhou Waking up to grey skies...
July 4, 2023
CDHI director Elspeth Brown sat down with Professor Patrick Keilty to talk about Queer Data Studies — his new edited collection, published in 2023 by...
June 21, 2023
Broaden your awareness and critical insight into the political, cultural and economic issues faced by First Nations, Inuit and Metis nations and peoples across Turtle...
June 6, 2023
The Faculty of Information is proud to share that Professor Shion Guha, PhD students Hiu-Fung Chung and Kelly McConvey, and alumnus Jamie Duncan are among the...
June 5, 2023
The Faculty of Information hosted its Convocation and Awards Celebration on Friday, June 2, at the Learning Hub right after the Spring Convocation ceremony. Recent...
May 31, 2023
University of Toronto Provost and Vice-President Cheryl Regehr has announced the appointment of Professor Javed Mostafa as Dean of the Faculty of Information (iSchool) for a five-year...
May 17, 2023
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Museum Studies students worked together with the Canadian Language Museum to put together a...
May 11, 2023
This Dementia Awareness Week (May 15 –21), the Cyber-Seniors organization will be making use of a new video series, which identifies and explains risk factors...
April 28, 2023
Student Recruitment and Admissions hosted a hybrid week-long event called iSchool Spring Showcase for all applicants and newly admitted students into the Master of Museum...
April 27, 2023
Faculty of Information PhD student Yaxi Zhao’s research focuses on the impact of students’ interpersonal relationships, including romantic relationships, on their mental health. Specifically, Zhao...
April 20, 2023
Master of Information students who participated in the recent Design for Change 2023 competition worked hard to develop solutions to one of Canada’s most pressing...
April 18, 2023
Several Faculty of Information professors and students will be presenting at the upcoming ACM CHI Conference taking place in Hamburg, Germany and online from April...
April 14, 2023
For the late Dr. John Smart (1939-2021), who worked for almost two decades at the Public Archives of Canada, archives were not just historical records...
March 30, 2023
Congratulations to Professor Alan Stanbridge on the publication of his new book, Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse. Stanbridge’s book takes its title from the expression...
March 30, 2023
Speaker: Rodrigo Baroni Associate Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Visiting Professor at the Faculty for 2022-23 Time & Date: April 18, 10...
March 28, 2023
The GLAM Incubator, a research and support hub that connects galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) with industry partners, researchers, and students, is looking for...
March 27, 2023
Master of Information student Lauren Carter created a quilt as a creative interpretation of her final assignment for the workshop – Information and Contemplation as...
March 20, 2023
The Franklin Lecture returns with Dr. Charlton McIlwain’s talk Black Software: Retrospect to Prospect. Dr. McIlwain provides an opportunity to bring together the most significant takeaways...
March 17, 2023
Speaker: Maria EconomouProfessor | Information Studies, School of Humanities and Hunterian Museum | University of GlasgowThe final research talk for this month examines how digital storytelling...
March 15, 2023
This past reading week, instructor Laura Phillips and students from the Faculty of Information’s workshop on Museums, Archives, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission visited...
March 10, 2023
Looking for help with a fictitious fraud problem, a team of Service Canada Officials spent four days at the Faculty of Information earlier this month....
March 7, 2023
The Museum Studies capstone class for second year students has launched its 2023 exhibition project season. The first exhibit in line is The Past in...
March 6, 2023
Read more about the Hackathon and what it takes to be a data detective Major congratulations to all the students who participated in and presented...
