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The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology, has made a significant showing at iConference 2011 in Seattle, Washington, with more than a dozen faculty and doctoral students presenting. Among those in attendance are: * iSchool at Drexel Dean David E. Fenske. * Dr. Eileen Abels: Chair for a session in Social Media. * Dr. Robert Allen: Presenting "Visualization, Causation, and History." * Dr. Mike Atwood: Presenting "From Human Factors to Human Actors to Human Crafters" with doctoral student Monica Maceli. * Drs. Andrea Forte and Sean Goggins: Presenting the workshop "Socio-Technical Research: Connecting Disciplines in the iSchools," with representatives from several other institutions. * Drs. Mick Khoo and Jennifer Rode: Presenting "The Sociotechnical Learning Object Slam Happening." * Dr. Gerry Stahl: Presenting "The Structure of Collaborative Problem Solving in a Virtual Math Team." * Dr. Deborah Turner: Presenting "Materiality and Oral Documents" with PhD student Warren Allen. * Dr. Chris Yang: Presenting "A Study of User Queries Leading to a Health Information Website." * PhD student Caimei Lu: Presenting "Post-based Collaborative Filtering for Personalized Tag Recommendation," with Drs. Tony Hu and Jung-ran Park and student Jia Huang. The iConference is an annual gathering of researchers and professionals from around the world who share the common goal of making a difference through the study of people, information, and technology. 2011 marks the 6th annual event. iConference runs February 8-11. http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/