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Multiple professors receive Urban Challenge Grants
Several Faculty of Information professors have received Urban Challenge research grants from U of T’s School of Cities, whose focus for 2025-2026 is on inequality, data and democracy. This grant program enables faculty members from the humanities, social and natural sciences, and engineering to undertake timely research, knowledge dissemination, and community engagement; address emerging research questions; and […]
Expert on ‘AI for social good’ to speak at convocation
Faculty of Information graduates will hear from a leading expert on using AI for social good at their convocation ceremony on Thursday, June 5. Harvard Professor Milind Tambe has a foot in both academia and industry. As well as being Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research in Computation and […]
LLMs learn the language of political transparency
While governments in Canada generate a wealth of data that could prove helpful to citizens, policymakers and journalists alike, accessing this information has proven to be a major challenge, sometimes even an impossibility. Now, an important new project, headed by Faculty of Information Assistant Professor Rohan Alexander, seeks to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence […]
BI student thrives as gaming influencer
In the competitive realm of online influencers and content creation, success demands a mix of creativity, business acumen, and the ability to constantly evolve. Twenty-two-year-old Evan Hao – a Bachelor of Information graduate, who has become a famous influencer in the world of Chinese gaming fans – has demonstrated all those qualities and more over […]
New Bachelor of Information degree approved
Applications will open in fall 2026 for the new program with students beginning their studies in September 2027 The Faculty of Information has received official approval to launch a Bachelor of Information (BI) degree from the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance. This brand new four-year professional degree program explores the relationships between people, information […]
BI student projects take centre stage
Final year students in the Faculty of Information’s Bachelor of Information program recently presented their capstone projects, showing how they apply creativity and technical insight to real-world challenges. The six projects on display showcased the program’s interdisciplinary approach and its focus on solving sociotechnical projects. They were: • AI-Enabled Plastic and Underwater Pollution Monitoring System […]
Archives as Data: Envisioning the Future
A project led by Assistant Professor Jessica Lapp has been chosen as one of four initiatives to receive funding from a new institutional partnership between the University of Toronto and the University of Illinois System. Entitled “Envisioning Critical Futures for Archives as Data,” the project will be co-led by an Assistant Professor Emily Maemura of […]
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, […]
Announcing the 2025 I.P. Sharp Lecture
As artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in our lives, urgent questions arise about whose knowledge systems shape its design and whose are excluded. The Faculty of Information’s 2025 Ian P. Sharp Lecture will bring together two distinguished speakers to explore how AI can be shaped with respect, relationality, and responsibility, rooted in Indigenous ethical frameworks.
A delicious victory for UXD students
Victorious team members are Aisharja Chowdhury, Jifan Li, Kristin Xie, Kex Zhang and Vera Zheng.
Intersectionality and Inclusion in Digital Policy
Intersectionality and Inclusion in Digital Policy is the theme for two issues of the Canadian Journal of Communication’s Policy Portal, edited by Professor Leslie Regan Shade of the Faculty of Information and Tamara Shepherd of the University of Calgary. The first issue, which has just been published, focuses on Intersectional Critiques of AI Governance and includes contributions from Faculty […]
Faculty of Information at CHI25: Top international conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Faculty of Information professors and students will have a strong presence at the 2025 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2025 is taking place in Yokohama, Japan from April 26 to May 1, bringing together researchers, practitioners and industry leaders to […]
Decolonization in action: A Museum Studies example
Museum Studies lecturer Bruno R. Véras helped the Faculty of Information play a key role in a recent decision by Harvard University to repatriate two human skulls to Brazil, including one believed to belong to a Muslim rebel who took part in an important slave revolt in 1835. Véras, who is Brazilian himself, first became […]
MMSt students’ exhibit on sound in the movies launches at TIFF
For their capstone project, Museum Studies students Liz Sullivan, Lana Zagorac and Devin de Silva collaborated with TIFF’s Film Reference Library to explore how sound effects, music and even silence shape audiences’ experience and linger long after the credits roll. The resulting exhibition, From Silence to Sound: Tuning the Auditory Experience, features objects from the the library’s Christopher […]
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 […]
BI student wins leadership award after finding her niche at Faculty of Information
It was love at first course for Sehar Bajwa when she switched to the Bachelor of Information (BI) program from engineering where she had completed her first two years of study at U of T. After two years in a purely technical environment, she realized it was stifling her creativity. “I looked at myself in […]
PhD student Christine Tran awarded King’s Coronation Medal
Faculty of Information doctoral candidate Christine Tran has been awarded a King Charles III Coronation Medal for the exceptional leadership she provided at Massey College during the pandemic. As Don of the Hall at the time, Tran created a welcoming and inclusive environment for the college’s junior fellows and left a lasting impact, said Massey […]
Trump’s actions a reminder Canada needs digital sovereignty, writes Prof Clement
The Trump administration’s shockingly aggressive attitude to Canada sounds a wake-up call for strengthening this country’s sovereignty, wites Faculty of Information Professor Emeritus in the Hill Times. “Our assertive response needs to go beyond the trade arena and directly address our excessive dependence on the United States for critical national communication infrastructure,” says Clement. “U.S. colonization of […]