UNC School of Information and Library Science

Feeling the Music

October 30, 2024

Willie Payne works with blind and low-vision musicians to make music more accessible.

Robot Reboot

October 9, 2024

Lilly Nekervis is modifying a robot dog to be a guide for people who are visually impaired.

An Unexpected Colleague

February 23, 2024

Mohammad Jarrahi wants to create symbiosis between humans and AI to improve workplace processes.

RUNC: Aashka Dave

February 14, 2024

Aashka Dave studies the relationship between climate data, mis- and disinformation, and the financial impacts of climate change.

Maggie Melo

September 15, 2021

Maggie Melo is an assistant professor within the UNC School of Information and Library Science. She studies how design and spatial interventions can be integrated into makerspaces and other environments to foster the inclusion of diverse user communities.

Searching for Better Ways to Search

May 19, 2021

In 2000, researchers in the School of Information and Library Science’s Interaction Design Lab were at the forefront of information retrieval on the World Wide Web. While technology and research methods have changed in the past 20 years, the basic premise of their research has not: how people navigate the internet in search of information.

Scraping for Secrets on Online Drug Forums

October 26, 2016

Online forums provide an outlet for drug users — and a source of information for UNC researchers like John D. Martin, III, who believes that studying these platforms may be the key to addressing abuse.