Dr. Lemieux named one of the Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity in Canada
IT World Canada and the Women in Security & Resilience Alliance received more than 170 nominations for Canadian women who work across a wide variety of organizations.
Mega-COV: studying COVID-19’s impact on human communication
Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed and his team undertake a global-scale study to investigate impact of COVID-19 on human communication in 104 languages.
Dr. Jennifer Douglas awarded SSHRC Insight Grants
Her research project ‘Getting at the Heart of the File: Toward a Person Centred Theory of Archival Care’ will study the intimacies of records creation and how knowledge of these can inform care-based and person-centred archival practices.
Dr. Victoria Lemieux receives Blockchain Leadership Award
The award was announced during the Annual Blockchain Revolution Global Awards. This event celebrates the leadership, research, and innovation in the enterprise blockchain ecosystem.
Congratulations to the winners of the W. Kaye Lamb Prize!
Dr. Jennifer Douglas, Alexandra Alisauskas and Devon Mordell have received this award for their article “‘Treat Them with the Reverence of Archivists’: Records Work, Grief Work, and Relationship Work in the Archives”.
PhD student Saguna Shankar receives ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Award
The award’s purpose is to foster research in information science by encouraging and assisting doctoral students in the field with their dissertation research.
Congratulations iSchool 2020 graduates!
On Tuesday, June 16, the iSchool hosted its first Virtual Graduation Ceremony to celebrate the Class of 2020
MAS Student Mya Ballin receives Mosaic Scholarship
The award, given by the Society of American Archivists, recognizes students who manifest a commitment both to the archival profession and to advancing diversity concerns within it.
UBC iSchool Black Lives Matter Statement
Read the full UBC School of Information Black Lives Matter Statement.
BCLA announces BC Library Summer Conference
These sessions, while not directly about COVID-19, are meant to provide support through the current crisis and help inform our thinking through the many stages of reimagining, rebuilding, and reinventing our libraries. All sessions are free.