[Students-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] Funded PhD Opportunities with the HathiTrust Research Center at the University of Illinois

[M.J. Menou]

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Subject: [Asis-l] Funded PhD Opportunities with the HathiTrust Research 
Center at the University of Illinois
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:15:48 -0500
From: J. Stephen Downie <jdownie at illinois.edu>
To: asis-l at asis.org

Funded PhD Opportunities with the HathiTrust Research Center at the
University of Illinois

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) and the
Illinois Informatics Institute (I3) at the University of Illinois are
actively recruiting outstanding doctoral candidates interested in
research assistantships with the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) to
develop the HTRC infrastructure, create mechanisms for outreach and
engagement with scholarly communities, and cross-pollinate ideas among
HTRC stakeholders.

The HTRC is the research arm of the HathiTrust
(http://www.hathitrust.org). The HTRC represents a unique collaboration
between the University of Illinois and Indiana University. The center
conducts research addressing the technical challenges associated with
the analysis of massive amounts of digitized text.  HTRC faculty and
students develop cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to
enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of
human knowledge.

The Office of the Provost of the University of Illinois has generously
provided support for two doctoral students with up to 4 years of
funding, including tuition waivers, stipends, and benefits. Successful
candidates will work closely with leading faculty in a cooperative and
highly interdisciplinary environment. We are particularly interested in
students with research interests in: information organization and
access, cultural informatics, digital humanities, data curation, data
modeling, metadata, machine learning, data mining, and socio-technical
data analytics.

The Graduate School of Library and information Science supports a broad
range of interdisciplinary research in areas such as youth services,
user services and outreach, information history and policy, social and
community informatics, and information organization.  For more
information about the GSLIS PhD program, please visit:
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/programs/phd or contact program
staff directly at <LISapply at illinois.edu>.

Research and education in the Informatics PhD program has a strong
interdisciplinary flavor involving experts in information and
computation foundations together with experts in a wide range of
application areas. It supports interdisciplinary research and promotes
the creation of new fields of research enabled by the development and
application of new technologies.  For more information about the
Illinois Informatics PhD program, please visit:
https://rhino.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/infophd/Home or contact program
staff directly at <info-phd at illinois.edu>.

For more information about the HathiTrust Research Center, please visit:
http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc or contact Prof. J.Stephen Downie,
Co-Director of HTRC, at <jdownie at illinois.edu>.

The application process is competitive. Research assistantships will be
assigned to the most qualified applicants only after admission to the
PhD program. Students from historically and statistically
underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.

Deadline for PhD applications to both programs is December 15, 2012 for
Fall 2013 enrollment.

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     "Research funding makes the world a better place"
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J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839
NEMA Project Home: http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu

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