Lessons from ASIS&T 2023: The Power of Storytelling in Information Sharing
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By Tomas Russo COM-ITI’25
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Book Bans in the U.S.: “What Information Will Schools Make Available to Young People?”
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“Many of us may think of book reading as something we do for fun, or leisure, or for required reading. But we also need to realize that books are lifelines, particularly for young people searching for answers,” said SC&I Teaching Professor Nancy Kranich.
The International Latino Book Awards Names “Day of the Dead in the U.S.A.” the Recipient of Two Awards
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Professor of Journalism and Media Studies Regina Marchi’s book “Day of the Dead in the U.S.A” explores “the manifold and unexpected transformations that occur when the tradition is embraced by the mainstream.”
Emily Knox Ph.D.’12 To Testify on Book Bans to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Knox's testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary on “Book Bans: Examining How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature.” The hearing will take place on September 12, 2023 at 10 a.m. EST and will be live-streamed on the U.S. Judiciary’s website.
The National Endowment for the Humanities Names David Greenberg a Public Scholar for 2023-24
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Greenberg has been awarded the prestigious grant to support his work on the biography he is writing, “John Lewis: A Life in Politics.”
Exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on Equity in Healthcare
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The aim of a new NSF-funded project is to develop a learning ecosystem to enable up to 1,000 high school students in Rhode Island to explore and learn how Machine Learning and AI are impacting equity in healthcare. Associate Professor Charles Senteio is a consultant on this cutting-edge grant.