Joshua Kitlas

Joshua Kitlas is currently pursuing a MS in Library and Information Science and a MS in Information Management at the iSchool. Joshua was recently selected out of a national pool of applicants to intern with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC for the summer of 2011. The Smithsonian offered just four Professional Development Internships. He was appointed to the position and will be working in the Digital Services division on Scientific Publishing and Workflow.

Prior to that, he interned with Johns Hopkins University and worked with the Head of Entrepreneurial Library Program to explore sustainability models for academic data repositories and see how they could be applied to the Data Conservancy. The Data Conservancy, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, will research, design, implement, deploy, and sustain data curation infrastructure for cross-disciplinary discovery with an emphasis on observational data.

As a career changer, Joshua has nearly 15 years work experience. Prior to coming to the iSchool, he worked primarily with rapid-growth technology startups throughout the dot-com era and for a boutique management-consulting firm in New York City. He held a leadership position at the firm and was tasked with the development of the firm’s West African base of operations. He lived and worked in Nigeria for two years fulfilling this effort.

He graduated in 1996 from The American University in Washington, DC. You can check out his personal blog at – http://kitlas.com

Christine Parker G’93 iCafe

Cafe in 023 Hinds Hall

Christine Parker G’93 iLounge

First Floor Lobby, Hinds Hall
Donor: Christine Parker G’93

Christine Parker G'93, an iSchool Board of Advisor member, funded the café and lounge spaces in the iSchool to support her belief in an open, collaborative environment, where students can broaden their views, engage in creative thinking, and expand their network of friends in an informal relaxed space. She hopes the gift will the iSchool find balance in its work and play, offerings of structured coursework and casual brainstorming opportunities, and technical equipment and aesthetically pleasing spaces.

Antje Bultmann Lemke G’56 Collaboratory

315 Hinds Hall

The iSchool seeks donors to support the Lemke Collaboratory, named in honor of Professor Emerita Antje Bultmann Lemke who played a key role in the development of the school. Please contact Scott A. Barrett or Barbara Settel if you're interested in supporting this effort.

Donors:
Judith Adams-Volpe G’74
D. Whitney Coe ’59, G’67
Virginia Rieger Denton ’61
Jon Martens G’79 and Betsy G’78, Ph.D. ’04 Van der Veer Martens
William Meyer ’50, G’51, Ph.D. ’57 in honor of wife Diane ’52, G’73

(From left) Victor Regnier, Sherry Buchanan (scholarship recipient), Robert Regnier, Catherine Regnier, and Chancellor Nancy Cantor congregate during the dedication of the Helen Benning Regnier Summer Institute on Leadership and Change and the naming of the first Helen Benning Regnier Scholar.

Milton and Roselie Brenner Staff Office

343G Hinds Hall
Donors: Paul and Mary Brenner

“My parents were always very supportive of the importance of education and worked hard to pay for all four of us kids to attend college. I thought it fitting that they be honored in an institution of higher education that I feel passionately about and will value and use the funding wisely.”

- Paul Brenner

Katherine Katchmar Learning Center

021 and 013 Hinds Hall
Donor: Estelle Wilhelm ’38, ’39

Estelle Wilhelm’s $1 million donation is in honor of Katherine Katchmar, a woman who greatly believes in education and would have been honored to help provide a place for students to go to expand their minds.“She was a great believer in education,” Wilhelm says. “With her, it was always ‘study, study, study.’”

Today, this premier 2,000-square-foot classroom and computer lab space is used by iSchool students in all programs who work independently or collaboratively on group projects at all hours of the day and night.