News Category: diversity-&-inclusion

2023 Capstone Award Winners

April 26, 2023

Congratulations to the 2023 Dean’s Choice Award and Diversity & Inclusion Award winners! Congratulations also to our first undergraduate capstone award winners!

The School of Information’s annual spring poster sessions showcase graduating student’s capstone projects and highlight the latest in digital libraries and archives, data analysis, information architecture and organization, user experience research and design, and much more!

View spring 2023 capstone projects. 

2022 Open House Award Winners

May 11, 2022

Congratulations to the 2022 Dean’s Choice Award and Diversity & Inclusion Award winners!

The School of Information’s annual spring Open House virtual event showcases graduating student’s capstone projects and highlights the latest in digital libraries and archives, data analysis, information architecture and organization, user experience research and design, and much more!

View all spring 2022 capstone projects. 

iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3) Announces Move to the Texas iSchool

April 12, 2022

We are pleased to announce that the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), previously hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information, will now be hosted by the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, i3 is a national undergraduate research and leadership development program that prepares students from underrepresented populations for graduate study and careers in the information sciences.

Art Exhibit Adds Representation and Visibility for Underrepresented Identities

June 30, 2019

Last weekend, an East Austin warehouse featured the “Fully Free: Identity Expression” Art Exhibit, an exhibit highlighting people’s experiences with identity expression.  

Spearheaded by Fully Free Art Collective, the exhibit brought visibility to an array of social identities, adding more diverse representation to the mainstream image of identity, and highlighting the many aspects of society that do not allow people of specific social identities to present as their full selves.

Committee makes diversity recommendations for iSchool

April 26, 2017

The School of Information’s diversity and inclusion committee has issued its first report.

Drawing on conversations among students, faculty and staff, as well as a community-wide survey, the report makes eight recommendations for the iSchool. They include: