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Alumna named president of University of Victoria
Faculty of Information alumna and professor, Rhonda McEwen, has been named the next president of the University of Victoria in British Columbia. She is currently the President of Victoria University, a federated University within U of T. “President McEwen has made a deep and lasting impact at Victoria University,” says U of T President Melanie […]
MMSt students partner with Bata Shoe Museum to study visitor experience
A student team from the University of Toronto’s Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) program is helping the Bata Shoe Museum better understand how visitors experience its flagship exhibition, All About Shoes: Footwear Through the Ages. For more than 30 years, the museum has explored the role of footwear in shaping cultures and societies. As curatorial approaches evolve and visitor expectations shift, the museum is taking […]
BI program proves catalyst for change
When Oliver Daniel opened a University of Toronto newsletter back in 2021, he wasn’t looking for a new academic path. But a familiar face and a program he had never heard of – the Bachelor of Information (BI) – changed the course of his studies. At the time, Daniel was enrolled in Arts & Science, pursuing a double major in computer science and linguistics. Still early […]
The parallel lives of an alumni couple
For John and Elizabeth Warrener, library school was a direct path to careers they loved. Now, they’re giving back to their alma mater, the Faculty of Information When John and Elizabeth Warrener first met as teenagers at North Toronto Collegiate Institute, neither was planning on becoming a librarian and they weren’t yet a couple. All that changed in the decade after they left high school. They began dating, enrolled […]
The 2026 issue of Informed magazine is out
In the 2026 edition of our Informed alumni magazine, sessional lecturers are in the spotlight. We profile five lecturers who spice up the classroom and the curricula with their unique insights and experience. The magazine also includes the obituary of the late Faculty Dean and Professor Brian Cantwell Smith as well as reports on a […]
‘Philosopher Dean’ Brian Cantwell Smith retires
Editor’s Note: We are saddened to share that Professor Emeritus and former Dean Brian Cantwell Smith passed away on September 6, 2025. His full academic obituary can be read here. For Brian Cantwell Smith, who officially retires this month, leadership has never been separate from ideas. As Dean of the Faculty of Information, he drew […]
Legacy of learning
Family members honour former dean, Ann Schabas, with generous gift to the Faculty of Information The Schabas family has a long, proud history at the University of Toronto, where the late Ann Schabas, a woman who was quietly ahead of her time, served as Dean of the Faculty of Information from 1984 to 1990. Now, […]
Forging your career in the age of AI: A talk with alumna Elaine Lu
Alumna Elaine Lu (MISt 1997) is convinced that success in tech today depends on bridging disciplines. Lu, who is Vice President, Engineering Operations at the AI infrastructure company, CoreWeave, shared this and other insights with Faculty of Information students when she met with sessional lecturer Mehdi Ataei’s machine learning class (INF2179H) and guests earlier this […]
AI’s transforming everything, says alum Elaine Lu
Alumna Elaine Lu (MISt 1997) is convinced that success in tech today depends on bridging disciplines. Lu, who is Vice President, Engineering Operations at the AI infrastructure company, CoreWeave, shared this and other insights with Faculty of Information students when she met with sessional lecurer Mehdi Ataei’s machine learning class (INF2179H) and guests earlier this month. […]
Obituary: Dean and Professor Adele Fasick (1930 – 2025)
Adele Fasick, a scholar of children’s libraries and literature and former Dean of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, died last month in California. She was 95 years old. Fasick, who was born in New York City, was a significant figure in the field of library and information science, who arrived at the University […]
New scholarship supports BI students interested in public service
If the Bachelor of Information (BI) program had existed when Karla Weys was beginning her university studies back in the eighties, she is certain she would have applied. And now, with the benefit of hindsight and a long successful career working in government, Weys thinks a bachelor’s program in her field is more important than […]
Zooming in with alumni: Taj-Rae Oliver
Taj-Rae Oliver is a 2023 grad in the Faculty’s newest concentration, Human-Centred Data Science (HCDS). She now works in one of today’s most exciting, constantly changing and fast-paced fields as an analyst on an AI Policy team at Public Services and Procurement Canada. What originally inspired you to pursue your degree in information? After undergrad, […]
In Memoriam: Professor Twyla Gibson (1954 – 2024)
Friends and Colleagues remember Twyla Gibson as an interdisciplinary scholar whose information interests ranged from Plato to Marshall McLuhan While she came to academia later in life than usual, Twyla Gibson, left a big imprint, including at the Faculty of Information, where she held an assistant professor appointment from 2007 to 2011. Gibson was […]
Congratulations to our Arbor Award winners
The Arbor Awards are the University of Toronto’s highest honour in recognition of exceptional and longstanding volunteer service. Recipients are essential to advancing U of T as one of the world’s great institutions of higher learning and advanced research. They provide volunteer supports that span everything from governance and academic programming to experiential learning and […]
Zooming in with alumni: Manda Vrkljan
Manda Vrkljan graduated from the Faculty of Information in 2019 with concentrations in Library and Information Science and Knowledge Management and Information Management. She is Head Librarian of the University College Library and the current President of the Faculty of Information Alumni Association (FIAA). She zoomed in with alumni officer, Regan Tigno. What originally inspired […]
Hot off the presses: Informed magazine, 2025 edition
The Faculty of Information’s alumni magazine, Informed, has just been published. Read tales of student success and ingenuity, get an overview of Faculty of Information research, find out more about generous alumni gifts, and much more. It’s all in the 2025 edition of Informed.
Shaping the Saudi future
After a successful, two decades long career in health informatics and management consulting, Dr. Fadi Al-Buhairan (Class of 2007) made the leap into the logistics industry in 2019 when he joined Saudi Post as Deputy CEO. Now, having successfully transformed that organization, he has been named head of Saudi Arabia’s new Special Integrated Logistics Zone. […]
MMSt alum Rhéanne Chartrand on her new role as the ROM’s Hatch Curator of Indigenous Art & Culture
When she graduated from the Master of Museum Studies program in 2011, Rhéanne Chartrand was thrilled to be one of the first in her class to land a job in her field. A few months later, however, the organization she was working for folded and she found herself unemployed. It was a “reality check” about […]