Please join us in welcoming new Assistant Professor David Gray Widder, who starts at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information in December 2025. Widder arrives most recently from Cornell University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Digital Life Initiative from 2023-2025. Prior to that, he received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, where his dissertation was titled “Ethics down the AI supply chain: playing with power.”  

The School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin welcomes Assistant Professor Ryan Moore. Moore joins the iSchool from Stanford University, where he earned his PhD in Communication and most recently spent a year as a New Map of Life Fellow at the Stanford Center on Longevity. 

The School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin congratulates Prof. Hanlin Li, who in July received a grant from the Wikimedia Research Fund for her proposal “Informing Memory Institutions and Humanities Researchers of the Broader Impact of Open Data Sharing via Wikidata.” The grant, which totals $49,450, involves both outreach to GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) and the proposed creation of a tool to help facilitate the use of Wikidata by such organizations. 

The University of Texas School of Information is proud to introduce its latest cohort of PhD graduates, who have successfully navigated the rigors of the dissertation process to emerge as new leaders in the field: Anubrata Das, Siqi Yi, and Chongyan Chen. These scholars are engaged in important research projects that advance, in new and exciting ways, conceptual and practical approaches to information science, where humans and technology meet.

On Friday, May 9, with great pride and amid the enthusiastic cheering of family and friends, the University of Texas at Austin School of Information graduating class of 2025 walked the stage in caps and gowns and received their degrees. Go forth, Class of 2025, and change the world!