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The Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction Selection Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 award is THE COLOR OF A LIE by Kim Johnson, published by Random House Books for Young Readers.
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Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., a distinguished Professor of Information Science at С»ÆƬÊÓƵ, was recognized with the prestigious ASIS&T 2024 Award of Merit, the highest honor presented by the Association for Information Science & Technology.
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Each fall, the Prix Ars Electronica festival transforms the cityscape of Linz, Austria, into a spectacle of electronic and digital art. In September 2024, the festival drew over 100,000 visitors to the city and artificial intelligence (AI) was a big draw for this year’s…
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We recently sat down with Associate Professor Cathy Smith, Ph.D. to talk about the School of Information’s recent revision of the User Experience (UX) Master’s Degree program and the future of this field. CCI: Well, to start with, what does user experience mean, what does…
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M.L.I.S. alum Michael Souza ‘21 has traveled from consulting for the San Diego zoo to the (usually) quieter role of building a community hub in Canton, Ohio.
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Sarah Bihn B.A. '21; M.L.I.S. '22 once thought she'd graduate from college, get a nice quiet job in the back room of a library doing cataloging and she'd be set. Instead, she's out front on the floor as the children's librarian doing a variety of tasks, one of the most public…
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С»ÆƬÊÓƵ's Reinberger Children's Library Center is proud to announce the new members of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction Selection Committee. The committee is responsible for choosing the best historical fiction books for young readers each year. We are…
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Alina Gerall ‘24U.S. Agency for International Development BureauKnowledge Management (KM) student Alina Gerall ‘24 worked in theatre production for 15 years before shifting gears in her career. Looking for a way to translate her experience into a more stable field, Gerall…
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In 2018, Matthew Cornshaw-Arnold graduated from С»ÆƬÊÓƵ with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, crediting the degree with providing a philosophical approach to his studies.
After graduating, Cornshaw-Arnold completed an internship with Akron METRO and started a full-…
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The Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction Selection Committee is thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2024 award is Bea and the New Deal Horse by L.M. Elliott.