The iSchool is an interdisciplinary college within Drexel University that focuses on the connections between people, information, and technology.  Research areas of interest include children and youth information behaviors, digital libraries, knowledge management, human-computer interaction, computer supported collaborative learning, social informatics, information visualization, and data mining.  Empirical studies both qualitative and quantitative are widely used.  Students and faculty come from a wide variety of backgrounds, such as computer science, anthropology, psychology, information science, library science, and communication.  The broad scope of the Ph.D. in Information Studies prepares students for employment in academia and industry.

Recent projects involving faculty and doctoral students include:
-     Question asking and answering in the Internet Public Library
-     Perceived credibility of stories in a participatory journalism web site
-     Interaction patterns and their effect on design
-     Collaborative knowledge sharing in early requirements analysis and design
-     Millennial students' communication behaviors and their impact on education practices
-     A distributed cognition walkthrough method
-     Virtual community building of teens interested in mathematics 
-     Gender differences in use of information technologies
-     Clinical information systems' effects on the work processes of health care practitioners
-     Data mining and information visualization techniques for knowledge discovery

If you would like to meet faculty, students and staff from The iSchool at Drexel, and learn more about our PhD program, please visit the College's booth 1/13 through 1/15 at ALISE, and 1/15 through 1/18 at ALA Midwinter.