Lingyao Li joined the College of Information Science after serving as an assistant professor at the University of South Florida and before that a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on how we can design AI systems that are not only capable, but also trustworthy, adaptive and genuinely useful to people.

Danielle Carlock Cowan, a 2005 graduate of the Master's in Library and Information Science, will bring her innovative Maricopa Native Seed Library model to Croatia, exploring how libraries can advance conservation, environmental education and community engagement.

For the second consecutive year, the University of Arizona is ranked No. 4 in the world for Library and Information Science in ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, affirming the College of Information Science’s place among the leading centers of research in the field.

A new NewsNation report on the 10 fastest-growing jobs over the next decade highlights two careers with particularly strong connections to the College of Information Science: data scientists, ranked No. 3, and computer and information research scientists, ranked No. 8. The rankings are based on new 2025-2035 employment projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Haw-Shiuan Chang joined the college after completing his PhD at the University of Massachusetts and serving as a postdoctoral scientist at Amazon. By studying how we can recover hidden human knowledge from what people write and use it to teach large language models to think more like we do, he fundamentally asks: What do we actually mean by intelligence?

With $4.6 million in National Science Foundation funding, researchers from the University of New Mexico, University of Arizona and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are developing an open-source AI platform designed to make scientific data easier to find, connect and use across disciplines.

Yulin Yu joined the College of Information Science in 2026 after completing her PhD at the University of Michigan and research appointments at Microsoft Research and Northwestern University. A computational social scientist, Yu studies how big data and artificial intelligence are reshaping the ways people explore, create and innovate across science, technology and other creative domains.

Beginning September 9, the Arizona Cybersecurity Clinic will offer 11 free public sessions at Pima County Public Library branches across the greater Tucson region. The series, Online Safety & Recognizing Scams: Staying Safe in Today’s Digital World, continues through November 19.

Two College of Information Science students earned top honors in the latest Data Visualization Challenge hosted by University of Arizona Libraries, transforming complex datasets into compelling visual stories about political borders and Tucson’s changing climate.

Information now connects nearly every discipline. The College of Information Science is showing what that means for the future of research, education and society.