2016 Introductory Institute Schedule

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Sunday
June 12

Monday
June 13

Tuesday
June 14

Wednesday
June 15

Thursday
June 16

Friday
June 17

Saturday
June 18

2016 i3 Scholars Arrive at University of Pittsburgh

Check-in at Panther Central and Bouquet Gardens G

Breakfast
Meet and Greet
9:00AM – 10:00AM
IS 305

 

Breakfast & Job Description Emails
9:00AM – 10:00AM
IS 305

 

Breakfast with PhD Teaching Fellows
9:00AM – 10:00AM
IS 305

 

Orientation, Program Overview, & Tour of Campus
10:00AM – 12:00PM
IS 305

Workshop
Copyright & Fair Use Matters
Kip Currier
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Workshop
ULS Diversity Recruitment & Types of Academic Librarianship
Crystal McCormick Ware
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Mock Interviews
10:30AM – 12:00PM
IS 305
Formal Attire
Resume Required
Job Description Required

Workshop
Healthy Ride: Smartbike Technology Potential in Pittsburgh
David White
10:00AM – 11:00AM
IS 305

SOCIAL
Kennywood Amusement Park

Meet outside Bouquet Gardens at 10:00 AM

Workshop
Whatare the Information Sciences? What are the iSchools?
Joe Sanchez
Don Hamerly
12:00PM – 1:30PM
IS 305

Prof. Development
Building Your Capital:
Setting Goals & Following Through
Michael Depew
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Prof. Development
Cover Letter Building: Creating Context for Your Brand
Michael Depew
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Group Lunch &
Interview Debrief
12:00PM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Workshop
What is Critical Theory and Why Should it Matter to Me?
LaTesha Velez
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Group Lunch
1:30PM – 3:00PM
IS 305

Group Lunch
1:00PM – 2:00PM
IS 305

Independent Lunch
1:00PM – 2:30PM

Review Research Projects
2:00PM – 2:30PM
IS 305

Independent Lunch
1:00PM – 2:30PM

Prof. Development
Resume Building: Creating Your Brand & Avoiding the Undersell
Michael Depew
4:00PM – 5:30PM
IS 305

Workshop
Whatdo the FBI, Children's Books, Fitbits, Self-Driving Cars, Revolutions, and Netflix all have in common? Us.
Wes Lipschultz
2:00PM – 3:00PM
IS 305

Workshop
Sports Analytics in the Era of Big Data & Data Science
Kostas Pelechrinis
2:30PM – 4:00PM
IS 305

Workshop
Team & Project Management
Jeria Quesenberry
2:30PM – 4:00PM
IS 305

Workshop
What’s the Deal with Big Data?
Randy Weinberg
2:30PM – 4:00PM
IS 305

 

 

Prof. Development
Interview Best Practices
Aderin Falana
4:00PM– 5:00PM
IS 305

 

Writing Exercise #1 Reviewed
4:00PM – 5:00PM
IS 305

OPTIONAL
Rita’s Italian Ice
Meet outside Bouquet Gardens at 7:30PM

Opening Reception & Keynote Address:
Tara Sherry-Torres
5:30PM – 7:30PM
IS 3rd Floor Theater (3T)
Formal Attire
RSVP Requested

 

OPTIONAL
Carnegie Museums
Meet outside Bouquet Gardens at 5:45PM

 

Sunday
June 19

Monday
June 20

Tuesday
June 21

Wednesday
June 22

Thursday
June 23

Friday
June 24

Saturday
June 25

 

Breakfast & Team Project Basics
9:00AM – 10:00AM
IS 305

 

Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:00AM
IS 305

 

Breakfast & Research Project Roundtable
9:00AM – 10:00AM
IS 305

2015 i3
Scholars arrive at University of Pittsburgh

Check-in at Bouquet Gardens

Teaching Module
Research Design
Kayla Booth
Miraida Morales
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Workshop
There's an App for That™ and Writing the Next Great American App: Trademark and Patent Basics
Kip Currier
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Research Design
Kayla Booth
Miraida Morales
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Research Advisor Workshop
Finding the Funk: Groove-Based Computing for Musicians and Computing Students
David James
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Research Design
Kayla Booth
Miraida Morales
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Programming
Bryan Dosono
Elissa Redmiles
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Programming
Bryan Dosono
Elissa Redmiles
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Programming
Bryan Dosono
Elissa Redmiles
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Programming
Bryan Dosono
Elissa Redmiles
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Programming
Bryan Dosono
Elissa Redmiles
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Independent Lunch
1:00PM – 2:30PM

Group Lunch & Writing Exercise #2 Reviewed 1:00PM – 2:30PM
IS 305

Independent Lunch
1:00PM – 2:30PM

Group Lunch
1:00PM – 2:30PM
IS 305

Independent Lunch
1:00PM – 2:00PM

Research Advisor Workshop
Understanding and Development of Socio-Technical Systems
Rosta Farzan
2:30PM – 4:00PM
IS 305

Research Advisor Workshop
Accessibility, Collaboration, & Disciplinarity
Jessica Benner
2:30PM – 4:00PM
IS 305

Research Advisor Workshop
Human Spatial Information Processing: Looking at the Cognitive Side of IS
Cristina Robles Bahm
2:30PM – 4:00PM
IS 305

Research Advisor Workshop
When Work Gets Weird: Information Studies and the New Economy
Daniel Carter
2:30PM – 4:00PM
IS 305

SOCIAL
Kayaking on the
Allegheny River

Meet outside Bouquet Gardens at 2:00PM

Research Advisor Workshop
Building Computational Tools in Complex Systems
Mark Whiting
4:00PM – 5:30PM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Research Design
Kayla Booth
Miraida Morales
4:00PM – 5:30PM
IS 305

Research Advisor Workshop
Serious Games & Simulations in Medicine
Dmitriy Babichenko
4:00PM – 5:30PM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Research Design
Kayla Booth
Miraida Morales
4:00PM – 5:30PM
IS 305

Sunday
June 26

Monday
June 27

Tuesday
June 28

Wednesday
June 29

Thursday
June 30

Friday
July 1

Saturday
July 2

 

Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:00AM
IS 305

 

Breakfast & Research Project Mock Groups
9:00AM – 10:00AM
IS 305

 

Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:00AM
IS 305

 

Teaching Module
Programming
Bryan Dosono
Elissa Redmiles
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Research Design
Kayla Booth
Miraida Morales
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Programming
Bryan Dosono
Elissa Redmiles
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Programming
Bryan Dosono
Elissa Redmiles
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Research Design
Kayla Booth
Miraida Morales
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

Prof. Development
Finding the Right Fit: Evaluating Grad Programs
Shabana Reza
Wes Lipschultz
12:00PM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Programming
Bryan Dosono
Elissa Redmiles
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Prof. Development
Whos In Your Professional Lineup
Jourdan Walls
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Research Design
Kayla Booth
Miraida Morales
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Programming
Bryan Dosono
Elissa Redmiles
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

Group Lunch with Pitt iSchool Representatives
1:00PM – 2:00PM
IS 305

Group Lunch
1:00PM – 2:00PM
IS 305

Independent Lunch
1:00PM – 2:30PM
IS 305

Independent Lunch
1:00PM – 2:30PM
IS 305

Farewell Lunch with PhD Teaching Fellows
1:00PM – 2:30PM
IS 305

Research Project Mock Groups
2:00PM – 3:00PM
IS 305

Workshop
Puzzle-Based Learning
Raja Sooriamurthy
2:00PM – 3:30PM
IS 305

Teaching Module
Research Design
Kayla Booth
Miraida Morales
2:30PM – 4:00PM
IS 305

Research Teams Meet
2:30PM – 4:00PM
IS 305

Workshop
Introduction to Machine Learning
Raja Sooriamurthy
2:30PM – 4:00PM
IS 305

Workshop
Emerging as a Leader in the IT Industry
Leona Mitchell
3:00PM – 4:30PM
IS 305

Writing Exercise #3 Reviewed
3:30PM – 4:30PM
IS 305

Research Team Selection
4:00PM – 5:00PM
IS 305

Prof. Development
GRE Strategy Session
Amanda Nowotny
4:00PM – 5:30PM
IS 305

 

Teaching Module
Research Design
Kayla Booth
Miraida Morales
7:00PM – 8:30PM
IS 305

 

 

 

Sunday
July 3

Monday
July 4

Tuesday
July 5

Wednesday
July 6

Thursday
July 7

Friday
July 8

Saturday
July 9

 

Holiday & Fireworks at the Point

 

Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:00AM
IS 305

 

Breakfast with Alumni
9:00AM – 10:00AM
IS 305

i3 Scholars Depart from University of Pittsburgh

Check-out of Bouquet Gardens

Research Teams Meet
10:00AM – 11:30AM
IS 305

2016 Team Research Proposals
10:00AM – 11:30PM
IS 305
Formal Attire for Presenters

2015 Team Research Presentation
10:00AM – 11:00AM
IS 305
Formal Attire for Presenters

Prof. Development
Telling the Story of Research
Public Communication for Researchers
10:00AM – 1:00PM
IS 3T

Prof. Development
Conducting the Grad School Search & Navigating Funding
David Eber
11:30AM – 1:00PM
IS 305

2015 Team Research Presentation
12:00AM – 1:00PM
IS 305
Formal Attire for Presenters

2015 Team Research Presentation
11:00AM – 12:00PM
IS 305
Formal Attire for Presenters

Group Lunch with CMU iSchool Representatives
1:00PM – 2:00PM
IS 305

Group Lunch
1:00PM – 2:00PM
IS 305

Group Lunch
12:00PM – 1:30PM
IS 305

Alumni Lunch & Research Showcase
1:00PM – 2:00PM
IS 305

Research Teams Meet
2:30PM – 5:00PM
IS 305

2016 Team Research Proposals
2:00PM – 3:30PM
IS 305
Formal Attire for Presenters

2015 Team Research Presentation
1:30PM – 2:30PM
IS 305
Formal Attire for Presenters

Prof. Development
Microagressions in the Computing Industry
Lynette Kvasny Yarger
Fay Cobb Payton
2:00PM – 3:00PM
IS 3T

Negotiating for Success
Leona Mitchell
2:00PM – 3:00PM
IS 305

 

Prof. Development
CraftingPersonal Statements
Amanda Nowotny
4:00PM – 5:30PM
IS 305

2015 Team Research Presentation
2:30PM – 3:30PM
IS 305
Formal Attire for Presenters

 

2015 Team Research Presentation
3:30PM – 4:30PM
IS 305
Formal Attire for Presenters

Alumni Panel
3:00PM – 4:00PM
IS 3T

Alumni Social
7:00PM – 10:00PM
Hemingway’s Cafe

Graduation Ceremony & Alumni Awards
5:30PM – 8:00PM
IS 3rd Floor Theater (3T)
Formal Attire