Nineteen UT Austin iSchool scholars, led by Interim Dean Prof. Soo Young Rieh, will present their research at the ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., November 14–18. Several community members, including Prof. Yan Zhang, Jiaxin An, and Akhil Adavi, received special recognition for their outstanding contributions.

As artificial intelligence has boomed over the past several years, industry commitment to responsible AI has often failed to keep pace, perhaps because executives do not see such practices as essential to their bottom line. This fall, iSchool professor Min Kyung Lee will embark on an investigation, funded by a coalition of major philanthropies including the Ford Foundation and the Omidyar Network, to identify the relationship between companies’ responsible AI practices and their financial outcomes.

This year’s ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) kicks off in Bergen, Norway on October 18, and the University of Texas School of Information will be well represented. More than 15 current iSchool faculty and students will be presenting papers and posters at the event.

On Tuesday, September 23, over 250 undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Texas School of Information converged on the Texas Union Ballroom on the Forty Acres to meet potential employers and practice their professional development skills. The event was the second annual iSchool Career Fair, conceived by leadership as a way to bring professional opportunities directly to students – and to help employer partners meet hiring needs. 

As a new school year gets underway at the University of Texas School of Information, the iSchool leadership team gains one new face and sees another familiar figure changing roles. Dr. James Howison, most recently interim associate dean for research, will be stepping into the role of interim associate dean for academic affairs. The vacancy in his former role will be filled by Dr. Ken Fleischmann, the new interim associate dean for research.