iSchool Associate Professor Jaime Banks has been selected as this year’s Katchmar-Wilhelm Endowed Professor. For the next three years, she will be researching companionship, cognition and characters.
Yash Kishore Wadhawe G’24 hopes to become a data scientist for a motorsports company. Eventually, he would like to form a start-up company in his home country in India.
Ud Joseph ‘24 is studying abroad in Seoul, South Korea this spring. He then plans to move to Kansas City to start a software engineering job with H&R Block.
iSchool Associate Professor Renate Chancellor has been selected to receive the RUSA Gail Schlachter Memorial Research Grant. The goal of the grant is to connect people to resources, information services and collections.
Eric Potthast ‘21 grew up in a small town and is now a client management analyst with the investment banking business management team at JP Morgan in New York City.
Professor Jian Qin has been selected for the university's Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award. Qin says there is “never a shortage for inspiration” in her work with students.
Heather Crane G’23 is an open education librarian at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. She graduated from Syracuse’s iSchool in December with a master’s degree in Library and Information Science.
iSchool Professor Joon Park has been selected as a Meredith Professor. He was selected based on his excellent teaching, which focuses on higher education and information security.
Hung Phung G’25 is working to earn a Master of Library and Information Science degree. He wants to become a leader in Vietnam in the field of community libraries.
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, a professor and senior associate dean for academic and faculty affairs at the iSchool, studies the impacts of digital technology, social media and misinformation in today’s political world.
