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Date and time: Friday February 27, 2026, 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location:(UNB) Union Building Santa Rita Suite (3.502)
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Date and time: Friday March 27, 2026, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Join the School of Information as we celebrate our students recognized as College Scholars and Distinguished College Scholars at UT Austin’s 78th Annual Honors Day ceremony. This university-wide event honors exceptional academic achievement and will take place at the Moody Center on Friday, March 27th at 4:00 p.m.
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Date and time: Friday May 8, 2026, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location:Bass Concert Hall
Join us in celebrating our graduating students at the 2026 iSchool Convocation Ceremony. Family, friends, faculty, and staff are invited to attend as we recognize the achievements of our graduates.
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Research


Prof. Ken Fleischmann to Lead the iSchool as Chair Designate and Interim Dean

Feb. 2, 2026
Effective February 1 of this year, Prof. Ken Fleischmann will take the reins as incoming leader of the iSchool, leading the unit into its next phase. Fleischmann is a trusted and familiar face at the iSchool, a cutting-edge researcher on human-centered AI,and an experienced administrator at the iSchool and beyond.
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The Humans in the Loop: Librarianship in the Age of AI

Jan. 13, 2026
Prof. David Lankes on his new book and the future of the library and archival professions
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Informatics Senior Chinmayee Channuri wins Fall 2025 Dean’s Choice Award for Capstone Project

Dec. 22, 2025
Chinmayee Channuri, an undergraduate senior double-majoring in Informatics at the School of Information and Management Information Systems at McCombs School of Business, has won the Fall 2025 Dean’s Choice Award for her capstone project “Building Product Growth Metrics for Voila Voice.” Dean’s Choice Awards are selected from among graduating iSchool students by Interim Dean Soo Young Rieh at our semi-annual iSchool Capstone Poster Session events.
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UT Austin and Cornell Medicine Awarded $1M NIH Grant to Tackle Black Youth Mental Health

A research team led by iSchool Professor Ying Ding was awarded a $1 million dollar research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) Program to develop novel interventions targeting risk and protective factors among Black youth with the goal of reducing the suicide rate.

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iSchool Faculty & Alumna Join New National Research Center to Improve Outcomes for Disabled Students

The School of Information is well-represented in a new national initiative to improve outcomes for millions of disabled students on U.S. campuses. The mission of the National Disability Center for Student Success at The University of Texas at Austin is to provide the first comprehensive and actionable research to support disabled student experiences and achievement after high school. Andrew Dillon, V.M. Daniel Professor of Information and dean of the iSchool from 2002 to 2017, is co-investigator of a $5 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences and is the National Disability Center’s Director of Research Dissemination.

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iSchool Well-Represented at 2023 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Andrew Dillon Receives Award of Merit

Several faculty members and doctoral students represented The University of Texas at Austin School of Information at the 2023 Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, which was held in London, UK from October 27-31. The theme of the conference was “Making a Difference: Translating Information Research into Practice, Policy, and Action.”