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Upcoming Events


Capstone Showcase Event
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Scheduled
Date and time: Friday April 24, 2026, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The year's Spring Capstone Poster Showcase is a celebration of 175 iSchool students and their capstone work. Food and refreshments will be served and the event is open to all students, faculty, and the community.
iSchool Convocation Ceremony
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Scheduled
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 at the iSchool

Our research crosses disciplinary divides, bridges the arts and the sciences, and applies human insights to technological advances.

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Research


Faculty Good Systems seed grant awards recipients

iSchool Professors Smith, Huff, and Ding Awarded Good Systems Seed Grants

March 25, 2026
Good Systems: Ethical AI at UT Austin is one of the three campus-wide Bridging Barriers Research Grand Challenges. Good Systems recently held an internal seed-funding competition for interdisciplinary faculty teams at UT pursuing projects at the convergence of AI design, human values, and societal need and three out of six grants were awarded to iSchool faculty: Angela D.R. Smith, Earl Huff, Jr., and Ying Ding.
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Professors Min Kyung Lee and Sarah Norris Recommended for Promotion

March 10, 2026
We are pleased to announce career milestones for two iSchool professors, both of whom are leaders in their fields and highly valued members of our campus community. Dr. Min Kyung Lee has been recommended for tenure and promotion to associate professor, and Sarah Norris has been recommended for promotion to associate professor of practice.
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iSchool Research Showcase 2026 Highlights

March 4, 2026
The iSchool invited scholars and visitors into a hive of research energy last Friday Feb. 27, as doors opened on the annual Research Showcase event at the Texas Union on UT Campus. For those in attendance, three hours was scarcely enough time take in the dizzying depth and breadth of all the research projects on display. Still, a unifying narrative emerged: The iSchool’s researchers are forward-looking, collaborative, and focused not just on substantive findings but also on effective communication of what their work means and why it matters.
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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.”