The research our faculty conduct goes beyond impacting the field; from learning about how information access affects rural communities to better understanding how disinformation spreads, and the role of AI in information sciences research and practice, their research touches the lives of people around the state, country, and world. Our faculty’s scholarship and research matters, and they continue to be global leaders in the field.”
Abebe RorissaProfessor & Director
School of Information Sciences
SIS faculty articles in The Conversation
Assistant Professor Ben Horne
Co-authored with Catherine Luther and R. Alexander Bently
Professor Vandana Singh
The retention problem: Women are going into tech but are also being driven out
Featured: SIS faculty research
The faculty of the School of Information Sciences is committed to conducting basic and applied research that promotes the generation of new knowledge, services, and technology. The School also encourages research that strengthens its instructional and public service programs.
Professor Suzie Allard
In this Plos One journal article, Allard and co-authors aimed to discover the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on junior researchers’ work-life, career prospects, research and publishing practices and networking.
Assistant Professor Jiangen He
Peer Influence in the Adoption of Video Games
In this International Journal of E-Business Research journal article, He and co-authors investigate how peer influence affects customers’ product adoption behaviors in emerging video game platforms.
Professor Devendra Potnis
Proposing an information value chain to improve information services to disabled library patrons using assistive technologies
In this Journal of Information Science article, Potnis and co-author explore how Information services offered by academic libraries increasingly rely on assistive technologies (AT) to facilitate disabled patrons’ retrieval and use of information for learning and teaching.