I draw your attention to the upcoming deadline for PhD applications at the
Illinois iSchool: Saturday December 1st.


Faculty in the Conceptual Foundations Group are recruiting, including
myself:
Jodi Schneider - Information quality, medical literature, argumentation
theory, knowledge representation and information organization
Karen Wickett - Applications of logic, philosophy, and knowledge
representation to metadata management and data curation

Feel free to reach out with questions.
-Jodi
http://jodischneider.com/jodi.html

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Funded PhD student opportunities at the School of Information Sciences at
Illinois



We invite applications from highly motivated students from all backgrounds
to join our world-renowned research and scholarship program at the School
of Information Sciences, the iSchool at Illinois. Our PhD program in
Library and Information Science is the oldest existing LIS doctoral program
in the U.S. with over 240 graduates. Recent graduates from our PhD program
have become faculty members at institutions such as the University of
Michigan, University of Washington, University of Maryland, and UCLA,
professionals at Baidu and Google, and academic library professionals at
the Library of Congress, Princeton University, and the University of
Chicago.



We guarantee up to four years of funding in the form of research, teaching,
and service assistantships, including tuition waivers and stipends. We also
offer travel support for our PhD students. Students receive one-on-one
mentorship from faculty with a global reputation for excellence in
scholarship and high impact science. The School's flexible program ensures
that each student is provided with the intellectual guidance and
experiences necessary to prepare them for vibrant research careers in a
wide range of academic, business, and government settings.



We highly value interdisciplinary work at our school. Our faculty and
students conduct exciting research on a broad range of topics:

* Community informatics

* Data curation

* Data science

* Digital archives and libraries

* Digital humanities

* Health and bioinformatics

* History of information

* Human-centered data science, Computational social science

* Human-computer interaction, User experience, Computer supported
cooperative work

* Information access

* Information literacy

* Information policy, privacy, security, and ethics

* Information retrieval

* Information visualization

* Informetrics

* Libraries and librarianship

* Machine learning

* Natural language processing, Text mining, Text analysis

* Network science

* Organization of knowledge and information

* Scientific data and knowledge practices

* Youth services and digital youth



For more on our vision see http://ischool.illinois.edu/research/vision

For more about our faculty visit http://ischool.illinois.edu/people/faculty



APPLICATION

To apply, go to
https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-library-and-information-science/apply


This page also contains detailed information about the application process
and the link for submitting your application.

Application deadline is Saturday, December 01, 2018, at 11:00 p.m., Central
Time.

We especially encourage students from historically and statistically
underrepresented minority groups to apply.



MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about our PhD program, see
http://ischool.illinois.edu/academics/degrees/phd or contact
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For questions, please contact Dr. Jana Diesner, PhD Program Director, at
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