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Dean’s Statement on Anti-Asian Racism
Dear Faculty of Information community, We mourn the murder of eight people, including six women of Asian descent, on Tuesday, March 16 in Atlanta, Georgia: Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, and Yong Yue. We reaffirm our commitments to people of Asian descent, […]
2017 Grad co-founds healthcare start-up
The first thing you see when you go to the website of Hypercare, the start-up co-founded by Faculty of Information alumnus Albert Tai, is its sales pitch to health care administrators: “No more pagers. No more phone tag.” Tai says people who don’t work in the healthcare sector are often stunned to find out that the old-fashioned pager remains […]
Obituary: Clare Beghtol (1942 – 2018)
When Clare Beghtol transitioned from Professor at the Faculty of Information to Professor Emeritus in 2009, the journal Knowledge Organization put out a special issue — or festschrift, as academics call it — in her honour. Beghtol was a scholar of classification theory and one of the top theorists worldwide. “It can be said that […]