iSchool News

Syracuse iSchool team grows facial hair to fight men's cancer

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The men of Hinds Hall are sporting more facial hair than usual this month, and it’s no coincidence—it was planned for a good cause. A team of students, faculty, and staff from the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) have come together to participate in an international month-long charity event called Movember. The word "Movember" is a combination of "mo" (Australian slang for mustache) and "November." Movember participants...

Prof. Milton Mueller quoted on incident at Internet governance meeting involving U.N.’s censorship of China criticism

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Milton Mueller, professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool), was recently quoted in a CNSnews.com article about an incident involving the United Nation’s removal of a poster at an Internet governance meeting in Egypt.
The poster was created by the Open Net Initiative (ONI), a free speech non-governmental organization of researchers at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and Toronto universities who investigate and analyze Internet restrictions around the...

Prof. Lee McKnight quoted in Biomass Magazine

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Lee W McKnight, associate professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) and a member of the Summerhill Biomass Systems board of directors, was quoted in an article in Biomass Magazine.

The article, “NY Company’s technology grinds biomass into powder for heat,” describes the system Summerhill Biomass Systems uses to grind up plant waste into a fine powder for conversion to heat.

“We can...

Syracuse iSchool student Endri Mataj G’10 serves as delegate to SCUSA 61 at West Point Military Academy

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Endri Mataj G’10 (pictured at right with U.S. Army Cadet Michael Arcangelo, the 61st SCUSA Commander), an Albanian Fulbright Student in the M.S. in Telecommunications and Network Management program at Syracuse University School of Information Studies, was selected as a delegate to the International Student Delegation for the Student Conference on United States Affairs (SCUSA).

SCUSA 61, "Advancing as a Global Community: Scarcity,...

Alumni Jennifer G’02 and Jeffrey Rubin ’95, G’98 donate $100,000 to the iSchool’s Raymond F. von Dran Fund

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Jeffrey Rubin ’95, G’98 leads by example. As a student in the School of Information Studies (iSchool) more than a decade ago, he put his classroom learning to work and launched his own company, Internet Consulting Services. As a Professor of Practice in the iSchool, he currently teaches all first-year iSchool students and students from across campus in the introductory IST 195 Information Technologies course, and incorporates real-world lessons from his experience as a successful...

Art and technology work together toward peace in ‘Sitting Still’ project

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

How would you portray the world from a non-violent perspective if someone handed you a video camera and told you to focus it on one subject for five minutes?

That’s the concept behind Sitting Still for Art and Empathy, a video art project developed by Anne Beffel, associate professor of art at Syracuse University. The project was launched in early 2008, and since then it has grown in scope to include two museums, two universities, numerous high school students, and...

Syracuse iSchool alumnus Darren Paul ’00 encourages students to pursue their entrepreneurial passions

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Unlike most college graduates, Darren Paul ’00 set off to found his own company after finishing his degree in information management and technology at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool). He and two equally young entrepreneurs enacted a carefully crafted business plan to launch a new publication, a guide for a handful of U.S. cities.
“Within three years, we ran the company into the ground and amassed a bunch of debt,” Paul told students...

Syracuse iSchool Prof. Lee McKnight to present at upcoming wireless grids meeting at University of Virginia

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) Associate Professor Lee McKnight, co-founder and director of Wireless Grids Corporation (WGC), has been invited to participate in the Semi-Annual WICAT Review being held on November 19 and 20 at the University of Virginia.

Industry members, collaborating universities, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have discussed and agreed to formally invite WGC and the Syracuse University Wireless Grids Lab to...

Women in Information Technology to host a faculty panel

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Syracuse University School of Information Studies will host the Women in Information Technology Faculty panel. The panel discussion will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 11 in the Katzer Room, 347 Hinds Hall. The panelists will be speaking about their personal experiences in the workplace and their educational journeys.

The panel will feature the following WIT iSchool faculty:
· Megan...

Syracuse iSchool Prof. R. David Lankes attracts attention for his keynote at recent conference

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

R. David Lankes, associate professor and director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, gave a keynote address at the 29th Annual Charleston Conference on the "Atlas for New Librarianship.” Lankes’ speech was featured in a Library Journal article, entitled “New mission for librarians: knowledge creation in their communities.”

Library Journal quoted Lankes saying “the typical ‘what is the future of...