Adjunct Faculty Spotlight: Dan Farrell
Meet Dan Farrell (he/him), a UBC iSchool adjunct professor who is teaching ARST 517 History of Recordkeeping this academic year during Winter Term 2 (January to April 2025)! Where do you work outside of teaching at the UBC iSchool, and how do you bring your professional experiences/expertise into the classroom? I recently retired after 15+ years […]
Welcome Dr. Alexander Ross to the UBC School of Information!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Alexander Ross will be joining the UBC School of Information in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Information Studies. Dr. Ross completed his PhD at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. He is a critical communications scholar, focusing on the political economy of communication, contingent […]
Grace Park (MASLIS) receives the 2024-25 ALA Spectrum Scholarship
Congratulations to Grace Park (she/her) in the Dual MASLIS program for receiving the 2024-2025 ALA Spectrum Scholarship!
Bryn Shaffer (MLIS) receives the 2024-25 ALA Spectrum Scholarship
Congratulations to Bryn Shaffer in the MLIS program for receiving the 2024-2025 ALA Spectrum Scholarship! The Spectrum Scholarship Program is awarded each year to American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Middle Eastern and North African, and/or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander graduate students in library and information studies. The program aims to assist these graduate […]
Student Spotlight: Milan Wiertz
Congratulations to Milan Wiertz, a fourth-year undergraduate student, who recently published an iteration of his term paper from INFO 303 Search Engines with Dr. Luanne Sinnamon in the European Policy Review. The article, titled “The Legal Perils of AI-Enabled Search Engines: How the integration of generative systems affects Search Engine obligations under EU Law,” explores […]
