The iSchool at Drexel and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette are working to establish a national research center for Visual and Decision Informatics. This collaborative effort will be funded by the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center program of the National Science Foundation, government and industry partners, and university matching funds.

The Center for Visual and Decision Informatics serves to drive continuous innovation through knowledge sharing among partners leading to invention and commercialization of information and knowledge engineering technologies for decision support. Its mission is to research and develop next generation visual and decision support tools and techniques to enable decision makers in government and industry to fundamentally improve the way their organization's information is interpreted and analyzed. 

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iSchool MS(LIS) Student Wins 2nd Annual Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz Memorial Scholarship

 

Congratulations to Master of Science in Library and Information Science student Melinda Roberts, who was awarded the 2nd annual Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz Memorial Scholarship, coordinated by Random House Publishers.  

Roberts previously served as a library assistant at Mount Laurel Library, and continues to work with the library as a volunteer. Library staff recommended Roberts for the award, noting that she has great devotion to the library community and shows promise in the field.

The award provides funds for a new librarian or library student who has never attended an American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. It includes travel to and from the conference, hotel, conference registration, and a ticket to the Newbery Caldecott banquet.

 

 

iSchool Doctoral Student Sofia Athenikos Receives 2011 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

 

Congratulations to iSchool doctoral candidate Sofia J. Athenikos, who has been named one of six recipients of the 2011 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded by library and information studies honor society Beta Phi Mu to LIS doctoral students who are working on their dissertations. Read More  

 

Dr. Alison M. Lewis Named Chief Acquisitions Editor for Library Juice Press

 

Library Juice Press, publisher of "Books for Librarians with a Critical Edge," has selected Dr. Alison M. Lewis as Chief Acquisitions Editor for the imprint.  Read More 

  

iSchool Associate Professor Gerry Stahl Presents Educational Research in China

 

iSchool Associate Professor Gerry Stahl served as Program Chair of the International Conference of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2011) held in Hong Kong from July 4-8. The conference drew researchers, practitioners and policy makers from 39 countries. Following the CSCL conference, Stahl participated in post-conference events in Mainland China at major university centers of educational research.

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Faculty News Briefs

Chaomei Chen, Associate Professor, gave a keynote speech, entitled "The Nature of Creativity: Mechanism, Measurement, and Analysis", at ICSTI2001 - Upgrading Information to Knowledge, Organized by the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), in Beijing, China on June 7, 2011. Dr. Chen also gave an invited talk on "Visualizing Science: Hindsight, Insight, and Foresight" in a spotlight session of the 102nd Annual Meeting of the Special Libraries Association in Philadelphia on June 13, 2011.

 

iSchool Professor Katherine McCain attended the 2011 LINKS workshop on Social Network Analysis at the University of Kentucky in June.

 

Delia Neuman, iSchool Associate Professor, attended TEDx Philadelphia on June 25 and the annual conference of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in Philadelphia June 26-29.

 

iSchool Professor Il-Yeol Song presented the paper "EIPW: A Knowledge-Based Database Modeling Tool" at the First International Workshop on Conceptualization of Modeling Methods (CMM 2011) held with Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2011) Conference , London, UK, June 2011. The paper was co-authored with Ornsiri Thonggoom, iSchool doctoral student, and Dr. Yuan An.

 

According to the SCOPUS (extracted on Fri Jul 1 22:54:02 BST 2011), Dr. Song's paper entitled "A UML Profile for Multidimensional Modeling in Data Warehouses," published in Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal (vol. 59, No 3, pp725-769) in 2006, was found to be the most cited paper among all the papers published in the journal in the past five years.

 

A paper by Ornsiri Thonggoom, Dr. Song, and iSchool Assistant Professor Yuan An, "Semi-Automatic Conceptual Data Modeling Using Entity and Relationship Instance Repositories," has been accepted by 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling to be held at Brussels, Belgium, Oct 31 to Nov 3, 2011.  

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