College of Communication and Information

School of Information Sciences

Faculty News

  • Assistant Professor Brian Dobreski Receives Bonnie Carroll and Roy Cooper Faculty Enrichment Award

    Assistant Professor Brian Dobreski has just wrapped up his second year at the School of Information Sciences, and despite one of those years being in a pandemic, he’s still managed to produce exceptional research that earned him the SIS 2021 Bonnie Carroll and Roy Cooper Faculty Enrichment Award. In the last couple of years, Dobreski…

  • Empowerment Through Technology: Associate Professor Vandana Singh Given 2021 CCI Faculty Research Award

    Associate Professor Vandana Singh wants her research to be a catalyst for change in the real world and therefore she pursues research topics that appeal to practitioners and advance the field of research. She has published about seventy journal articles and conference proceedings and that body of research has been recognized this year with the…

  • SIS Assistant Professor Ben Horne to Moderate Panel on Social Media and the Rise of Extremism

    SIS Assistant Professor Ben Horne has focused much of his research on how misinformation and disinformation spreads online – a topic that has been pushed to the forefront this past year as internet conspiracy theories and extremism have been connected to the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. While it may be a fairly new…

  • Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May Receives ALISE Teacher of the Year Award

    Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May was a public and academic librarian before she earned her doctoral degree and began teaching, and one of her very first teaching experiences was creating a user instruction class. “How I designed that class was by using all the things I wish I had known as an academic librarian who was…

  • SIS, CICS Team Awarded $399K Sloan Grant to Study Early Career Researchers

    As COVID-19 continues to affect the way people live, work, and learn around the world, researchers are beginning to gather data on how the pandemic is affecting society, and one such research team is from the College of Communication and Information’s Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS) and the School of Information Sciences in…

  • SIS Faculty & Students Contribute at Fall Conferences, Including ALISE & ASIS&T

    There are several fall conferences coming up soon, and SIS has faculty and graduate students participating in presentations, panels, and more. All of these conferences are virtual this year. Here is a round-up of their contributions. Professor Dania Bilal has several roles in the upcoming Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting Oct. 22-Nov.…

  • SIS Associate Professor Devendra Potnis Honored by ASIS&T as SIG Member of the Year

    Anyone reviewing SIS Associate Professor Devendra Potnis’s research and service work throughout his career can see he has a deep passion for helping people at an international level, as well as a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Whether it’s helping low-income populations in India become digitally literate, exploring how social media can be used…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Clinical Assistant Professor Ericka Patillo Will Lead Graduate Studies

    Clinical Assistant Professor Ericka Patillo has been both an administrator and teacher of information sciences, and will be serving in both capacities at SIS as she takes on the role of Director of Graduate Studies.  “I think my combined experiences have equipped me for moving out of the practice and into an arena where I…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Ben Horne Joins the SIS Team

    Ben Horne joined SIS in August 2020, and combines his background in computer sciences and information sciences to focus his research on safety in online spaces – particularly as it pertains to news and information consumption. He hopes to help students at SIS learn computational skills they can apply to information jobs without having to have…

  • Faculty Spotlight: New Assistant Professor Jiangen He

    Jiangen He said his new position at SIS is ideal for him, both in the description and location, and he couldn’t be more thrilled to start in the fall. “I learned a lot about the research footprint of the different [SIS] faculty members and I feel there is some connection between my research and the…