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PhD in LIS Student Elaine Kong receives 2026 Paul Evan Peters Scholarship

Doctoral student Elaine Kong and master’s student Violeta Duncan (Simmons University) are the 2026 recipients of the Paul Evan Peters Scholarship for graduate study in information science or closely related fields.

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Recent PhD Graduate Receives Best Poster Award at IC2S2 2026

Recent PhD Graduate Alireza Javadian Sabet (SCI ‘26G) received the Best Poster Award at the 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) held in Burlington, Vermont, for his paper "How women's empowerment combats national brain drain."

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Ahana Biswas Represents SCI at Selective Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop

Ahana Biswas, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in information science at SCI and researcher in the PICSO Lab, attended the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science from May 24 through June 5, 2026. A highly selective and prestigious program, the workshop brings together a small cohort of graduate students from leading institutions to collaborate on interdisciplinary research.