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From: Downie, J Stephen
Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:58 AM
Subject: [DIGLIB] Funded PhD student opportunities at the School of
Information Sciences at Illinois
To:
Dear Colleagues:
We invite applications from highly motivated students from all
backgrounds to join our world-renowned research and scholarship
program at the School of Information Sciences, the iSchool at
Illinois. Our PhD program in Library and Information Science is the
oldest existing LIS doctoral program in the U.S. with over 240
graduates. Recent graduates from our PhD program have become faculty
members at institutions such as the University of Michigan, University
of Washington, University of Maryland, and UCLA, professionals at
Baidu and Google, and academic library professionals at the Library of
Congress, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago.
We guarantee up to four years of funding in the form of research,
teaching, and service assistantships, including tuition waivers and
stipends. We also offer travel support for our PhD students. Students
receive one-on-one mentorship from faculty with a global reputation
for excellence in scholarship and high impact science. The School's
flexible program ensures that each student is provided with the
intellectual guidance and experiences necessary to prepare them for
vibrant research careers in a wide range of academic, business, and
government settings.
We highly value interdisciplinary work at our school. Our faculty and
students conduct exciting research on a broad range of topics:
* Community informatics
* Data curation
* Data science
* Digital archives and libraries
* Digital humanities
* Health and bioinformatics
* History of information
* Human-centered data science, Computational social science
* Human-computer interaction, User experience, Computer supported
cooperative work
* Information access
* Information literacy
* Information policy, privacy, security, and ethics
* Information retrieval
* Information visualization
* Informetrics
* Libraries and librarianship
* Machine learning
* Natural language processing, Text mining, Text analysis
* Network science
* Organization of knowledge and information
* Scientific data and knowledge practices
* Youth services and digital youth
For more on our vision see http://ischool.illinois.edu/research/vision
For more about our faculty visit http://ischool.illinois.edu/people/faculty
APPLICATION
To apply, go to
https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-library-and-information-sc...
This page also contains detailed information about the application
process and the link for submitting your application.
Application deadline is Saturday, December 01, 2018, at 11:00 p.m.,
Central Time.
We especially encourage domestic students from historically and
statistically underrepresented minority groups to apply.
MORE INFORMATION AND ONLINE INFORMATION SESSION
For additional information about our PhD program, see
http://ischool.illinois.edu/academics/degrees/phd or contact
ischool-phd@illinois.edu
On Wednesday, October 10, 2018, from 8:00-9:00 a.m. Central Time, we
will host an online information session about our PhD degree in
Library and Information Science. During the session, the program
director, iSchool faculty, staff and a current PhD student will answer
questions and provide information about our PhD program. Login
instructions are below.
ONLINE: http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/phd_info_session, please type
your name and click “Join Session”.
Blackboard Collaborate Instructions:
http://help.blackboard.com/Collaborate/Ultra/Participant/Get_Started/Navigat...
If you have questions or problems with regard to participation, please
contact our Help Desk:
help@support.ischool.illinois.edu, +1-217-244-4903 or +1-800-377-1892.
For additional information about the online information session:
https://ischool.illinois.edu/news-events/events/2018/09/26/virtual-informati...
For questions, please contact Dr. Jana Diesner, PhD Program Director,
at jdiesner@illinois.edu.
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"Research funding makes the world a better place"
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J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
Professor
School of Information Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839
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