12/13/2012

• Slashdot: Cliff Lampe on gamification

  

  Asst. professor Cliff Lampe uses gamification in his large undergrad lectures to make them more interesting. This video shows him in his office, discussing the rationale, and in the classroom, in full Viking regalia.

   

12/11/2012

• La Rédaction

  

  UMSI's Paul N. Edwards, a visiting professor at Sciences Po, was featured in La Rédaction's "6 Minutes" video segment to find out: a. Why the social side of technology is important; b. If human knowledge is becoming less valuable; c. If paper is more durable than digital storage formats; and d. If Paul Edwards is a rock star.

12/9/2012

• International Business Times

  

  UMSI associate professor Lada Adamic studied how parents and children on Facebook communicate with each other and, by and large, discovered the interactions to be positive.

11/22/2012

• ITBusinessEdge

  

  Article explores why UMSI's new master's program in health informatics is gaining steam. Meghan Genovese, senior associate director of Michigan’s health informatics program, is interviewed.

11/20/2012

• The Daily Dot

  

  Recent UMSI graduate Eytan Bakshy (PhD '11) publishes findings on Facebook's 2012 election app. Bakshy is a member of Facebook’s Data Science Department.

   

11/19/2012

• Time Magazine

  

  UMSI Associate Professor Charles Severance, who teaches an Internet History, Technology and Security course with Coursera, was curious about how many students were cheating in the free online class. His results after tracking 6,000 students are chronicled in this week's Time Magazine.

   

11/19/2012

• NPR

  

  UMSI Associate Professor Lada Adamic's recent work analyzes nearly 50,000 recipes and 2 million reviews from allrecipes.com to create an algorithm which networks ingredients, suggests healthy food substitutions, and effectively predicts recipe ratings.

11/19/2012

• Crain's Business Detroit

  

  In his UMSI appearance on Friday, November 16, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo advised students to follow their dreams.

11/17/2012

• Heritage Newspapers

  

  In response to a question during his appearance at U-M, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announces that by year-end, users will be able to download a full archive of their tweets.

11/16/2012

• AnnArbor.com

  

  Twitter CEO Dick Costolo visits UMSI; talks about Twitter's impact, its users, and his time in Ann Arbor.

11/16/2012

• Michigan Daily

  

  Same day coverage of Dick Costolo's campus appearance by the student-run Michigan Daily newspaper.

10/17/2012

• ProCommunity: A Socious Podcast

  

  Josh Paul interviews UMSI Professor Paul Resnick, sparking a wide-ranging discussion about online communities.

10/11/2012

• Southern California Public Radio

  

  Professor Cliff Lampe and actor James Urbaniak discuss the concept of "instant analysis" in online political debate.

10/10/2012

• Michigan Radio

  

  Professor Cliff Lampe discusses how to handle social media during election season.

10/02/2012

• U-M Record Update

  

  Distinguished former UMSI and College of Engineering Dean Daniel E. Atkins celebrates 40 years of service to U-M with a symposium featuring many of the brightest minds in the information field. Vint Cerf, John Seely Brown, and others come together to discuss cyberinfrastructure, information schools, and more.

10/01/2012

• Bright Side of News

  

  UMSI alumnus Sean Munson and Professor Paul Resnick are featured in an article about their new system for classifying and presenting political news stories to help readers access a wider range of political viewpoints.

9/26/2012

• Booklist Online

  

  UMSI Clinical Assistant Professor Kristin Fontichiaro discusses efforts to increase access to research in the K-8 age group. She identifies the value in linking public libraries with school libraries, talks about how to engage youth in information-seeking behaviors, and briefly addresses the state of information literacy efforts.

9/19/2012

• The Atlantic

  

  Deepfield Networks, a new, Ann Arbor-based company, uses big-data capabilities to decode the inner-workings of the modern Internet. UMSI alumnus Naim Falandino is their Chief Data Scientist.

09/16/2012

• forsal.pl

  

  Swedish-language news site features the work of UMSI Professor Dragomir Radev, discusses veracity of information on microblogging services.

9/12/2012

• Booklist Online

  

  Review of UMSI Clinical Assistant Professor Kristin Fontichiaro's book titled Navigating the Information Tsunami: Engaging Research Projects That Meet the Common Core State Standards, K–5, which provides lesson plans on how to incorporate common core state standards.

9/11/2012

• Forbes India

  

  MSI student Margaret Young, intern at Microsoft Research India, is mentioned in this article on the increasing importance of transnational exchange in career development.

9/3/2012

• Deseret News

  

  Assistant Professor Lionel Robert is quoted in an article that compares the productivity of remote site vs. onsite workers.

8/30/2012

• Inside Higher Ed

  

  UMSI's Chuck Severance holds informal office hours for his course on Internet history being offered as a massive open online course, and describes some of the challenges in this news article.

8/29/2012

• The Guardian

  

  UMSI research associate Mia Bruch co-authored this editorial in The Guardian on the role of religion in the 2012 election.

8/28/2012

• GNIP: The Social Media API

  

  The research of UMSI's Lada Adamic is the interview subject in this blog entry of Elaine Ellis.

8/16/2012

• Chronicle of Higher Education

  

  Dr. Charles Severance, who is teaching a massive open online course (MOOC) on the history of the Internet, comments on charges of plagiarism among students in these free, high-enrollment classes.

7/31/2012

• AnnArbor.com Techbeat

  

  DeepField, a startup company of UMSI alum Naim Falandino (MSI '12), is profiled on its launch day.

6/14/2012

• MIT Technology Review

  

  UMSI alum Eytan Bakshy (PhD '11), is a member of Facebook's Data Science Team, a "Bell Lab for the social networking age."

6/5/2012

• Crain's Chicago Business: Big backers for UMSI alum's startup

  

  UMSI alumni Justin DeLay and his partners find angels with deep pockets for their data storage start-up, TempoDB.

   

• Chronicle of Higher Education: Tech Therapy

  

  Link to a podcast interview with UMSI's Dr. Chuck Severance as he discusses his decision to work with Blackboard on the open-source software he pioneered.

5/17/2012

• AnnArbor.com: U-M information grads to have options

  

  Jeff MacKie-Mason expects that in 20 years almost every university will offer a bachelor's degree in information studies.

   

• University Record:Regents approve new undergraduate degree

  

  The Board of Regents approved the university's first undergraduate degree in information at its meeting Thursday. The School of Information (SI) will offer the bachelor's degree in information beginning in fall 2014 pending its approval at the June meeting of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan.

   

• Ann Arbor Chronicle: Regents approve new degree

  

  A new bachelor’s degree for the University of Michigan School of Information was authorized by UM regents at their May 17, 2012 meeting. Undergraduates would be able to declare this as their major in the fall of 2014.

5/15/2012

• AnnArbor.com: UMSI proposes UG degrees in information

  

  U-M's School of Information and the provost office are petitioning the Board of Regents during its Thursday meeting in Dearborn to approve a new bachelor of arts and bachelor of science in information.

   

   

4/18/2012

• Marietta Times: Learn something - for free

  

  I just signed up to take a class this summer at the University of Michigan, the class, called internet history, technology and security will be taught by Charles Severance and will last six weeks. Big deal, right? Well the class is free and is one of hundreds that can be taken from some of the nation’s best universities.

3/26/2012

• MarketWatch: Charles Severance joins Blackboard leadership

  

  Blackboard Inc. today announced the appointment of Charles Severance, a longtime leader and one of the founders of the Sakai community, to a senior role to lead the company's initiative on the Sakai open source learning management system (LMS).

   

March/April 2012

• D-Lib Magazine

  

  The Magazine of Digital Library Research contains a news item on the 2012 iConference where Beth Yakel, Morgan Daniels, and Kathleen Fear won a Best Paper award.

3/13/2012

• Library Journal: Movers and Shakers 2012

  

  Kristin Fontichiaro and three UMSI alumni have been named "movers and shakers" of the year by the Library Journal.

• Hack Library School Blog

  

  The UMSI student organizers of the first Quasi-con, or non-conference, on the future of libraries share their experience and practical advice in this blog for library science students.

3/8/2012

• The Collation

  

  ASB participant Sarah Wingo was invited to contribute a guest blog to the Folger Shakespeare Library's blog, The Collation. She reflects on her week of service at the Folger.

2/13/2102

• Michigan Daily: DataDive, where science meets service

  

  Science united with service this weekend when the School of Information partnered with Open.Michigan, a University organization dedicated to globally sharing information, to host the a2DataDive — the University’s first ever DataDive.

2/6/2012

• Washtenaw Voice

  

  Professor Paul Edwards speaks out at town hall meeting on climate change.

2/3/2012

• University Record: SI Penny War

  

  SI's annual Penny War fundraiser for the Alternative Spring Break program is featured.

1/29/2012

• Radio National Australia: Future Tense

  

  Assistant professor Finn Brunton is interviewed on Australian radio on the temporary nature of technology.

1/24/2012

• Michigan Daily: New Master’s of Health Informatics to merge two academic programs

  

  In response to the rapidly growing demand for education in the fields of information technology and public health, the University plans to launch a new Master’s program in Health Informatics this fall.

1/20/2012

• GovernmentHealthIT: Is ONC's community college HIT program working?

  

  The government plans to fork out a total of nearly $70 million in grants to five community colleges assigned with leading a federal healthcare IT training program. But is the Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Technology Professionals delivering?

1/17/2012

• TechCrunch.com: Facebook Study Reveals Facebook Is Not an Echo Chamber

  

  UMSI associate professor Lada Adamic, currently a scholar-in-residence at Facebook, has published a paper cited on TechCrunch.com. One of her co-authors, now employed at Facebook, is Eytan Bakshy (PhD '11).

   

• Slate.com: The End of the Echo Chamber

  

  Eytan Bakshy, a UMSI PhD ('11) now working at Facebook, has just published a paper (co-authored with UMSI associate professor Lada Adamic) that disproves some conventional wisdom about the Web. According to this new research, the online echo chamber doesn’t exist.

1/10/2012

• HealthCareITNews: Community College Training of Health IT Professionals Questioned

  

  Chuck Friedman, director of the Health Informatics programs at the School of Information, is quoted extensively in an article examining the quality of health informatics training at community colleges.

  
  
  

1/2/2012

• Work by two UMSI PhDs gathering press notice

  

  Emilee Rader (PhD '09) and Richard Wash (PhD '09), now assistant professors at Michigan State University, have received NSF grants to help people increase security of their home computers.