[Students-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] Socio-technical Data Analytics (SODA) Research Assistantships at the iSchool at Illinois, starting summer or fall 2014.

[Michel Menou]

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Subject: 	[Asis-l] Socio-technical Data Analytics (SODA) Research 
Assistantships at the iSchool at Illinois, starting summer or fall 2014.
Date: 	Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:27:12 +0000
From: 	Blake, Catherine <clblake at illinois.edu>
To: 	'asis-l at asis.org' <asis-l at asis.org>



*Socio-technical Data Analytics (SODA) Research Assistantships available 
**at the iSchool at Illinois, **starting summer or fall 2014.*
The iSchool at Illinois (_www.lis.illinois.edu_ 
<http://www.lis.illinois.edu>) is recruiting high quality masters 
students to design, develop, and evaluate new computational and 
socio-technical solutions to the grand challenges of the twenty-first 
century. We are particularly interested in students who will deepen the 
diversity of the 2014/15 cohort, such as those changing careers, those 
who see the potential that big data may play in their current career, or 
those from historically and statistically underrepresented groups.
Two Socio-technical Data Analytics (SODA) Research Assistants will be 
selected from the 2014/15 MS applicant pool who will each receive 
tuition waivers and fees, and a stipend as they work towards the SODA 
specialization (see soda.lis.illinois.edu). These students will work 
closely with Dr. Blake's research group (see below) to develop new 
methods in text mining and summarization to support discovery and 
information synthesis in medicine and toxicology.
All SODA students are members of the Center for Informatics Research in 
Science and Scholarship (cirss.lis.illinois.edu) and will have the 
opportunity to take courses from top researchers in the field including:

  * Catherine Blake (text mining, discovery and health informatics,
    summarization),
  * Jana Diesner (natural language processing, machine learning, network
    analysis, covert information),
  * Miles Efron (information retrieval, language technologies, temporal
    information),
  * Vetle Torvik (informetrics, data mining, literature-based discovery,
    name disambiguation).

Courses in digital humanities, social informatics, data curation, 
information organization, youth and user services, and history of 
information are also available.
The MS program has been consistently ranked #1 by US News and World 
Report. You can pursue your graduate degree at the Urbana-Champaign 
campus or via LEEP, an innovative hybrid online program that has 
successfully graduated more than 1500 students since 1996.
*Applications received by May 1 (to start in either summer or fall 2014) 
will receive full consideration for funding*. For more information go to 
soda.lis.illinois.edu/apply. Admissions questions can be directed to 
_lis-apply at illinois.edu_ <mailto:lis-apply at illinois.edu> and questions 
about SODA can be directed to _sodaInfo at illinois.edu_ 
<mailto:sodaInfo at illinois.edu>.
Kind Regards,
Dr. Catherine Blake
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Associate Professor - iSchool at Illinois, and Medical Information Science
Associate Director - Center for Informatics in Science and Scholarship 
(CIRSS)
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 E. Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61820-6212
Telephone:(217) 333 0115
Facsimile: (217) 244 3302
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