[Students-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] Funded PhD Opportunities at Illinois

[Michel Menou]

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Subject: 	[Asis-l] Funded PhD Opportunities at Illinois
Date: 	Thu, 8 Oct 2015 13:05:42 +0000
From: 	Schmidt, Kimberly Rae <kimsch at illinois.edu>
To: 	asis-l at asis.org <asis-l at asis.org>



Dear Colleagues:

The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information 
Science (GSLIS), the iSchool at Illinois, is actively recruiting high 
quality doctoral students who want to design, develop, and evaluate 
informatics solutions to the grand challenges of the twenty-first 
century. Admitted candidates typically receive up to 4 years of funding 
in the form of research, teaching and service assistantships, including 
tuition waivers and stipends.

Massive changes in how large collections of data are created, 
disseminated, analyzed, and used have increased the role that 
information plays in industry, science, scholarship, government, and our 
everyday lives. The flexible program ensures that each student receives 
the intellectual guidance and experiences necessary to prepare them for 
vibrant research careers in a wide range of academic, business, and 
government settings. Students receive one-on-one mentorship from faculty 
with a global reputation for excellence in scholarship and high impact 
science.

Faculty work on data from many domains including science (MEDLINE, EPA, 
STAR METRICS), business (health, energy, media), humanities (HathiTrust, 
Google Books), and everyday life (social media) and develop new methods in:

• Text and Data Mining
• Informetrics and Data Analytics
• Information Retrieval
• Social Computing
• Digital Humanities
• Social Network Analysis
• Digital Libraries
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Data Curation and Linked Data
• Information Trust and Privacy
• Digital Youth

GSLIS 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, data curation and information 
organization. Additional information about research at GSLIS is 
available at http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/projects. For specific 
information about the PhD program, please visit 
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/degrees/phd or contact 
lis-apply at illinois.edu.

*J. Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, will be 
available at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting to answer any questions you have 
about the program. To schedule a time to meet with Professor Downie, 
please email jdownie at illinois.edu.*

Students from historically underrepresented groups are particularly 
encouraged to apply.
Deadline for PhD applications is December 15, 2015.

-- 
Kim Schmidt
Director of Publications and Media Relations
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 265-6391
www.lis.illinois.edu



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