15 October: FYI -- PhD funding, Illinois

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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@illinois.edu.

Students from historically underrepresented groups are particularly
encouraged to apply.

Deadline for PhD applications is December 15, 2015.

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