I am writing to all of you to provide some iSchool context to the news shared by President Davis about our moving under the umbrella of a new School of Computing within the College of Natural Sciences in the fall. The college and University have committed to maintaining all our current academic credentials for students and for prospective students and to bringing new resources to bear for faculty hiring, supports for our students, and interdisciplinary research co-led by our community.

Effective February 1 of this year, Prof. Ken Fleischmann will take the reins as incoming leader of the iSchool, leading the unit into its next phase. Fleischmann is a trusted and familiar face at the iSchool, a cutting-edge researcher on human-centered AI,and an experienced administrator at the iSchool and beyond.

Prof. David Lankes on his new book and the future of the library and archival professions

Chinmayee Channuri, an undergraduate senior double-majoring in Informatics at the School of Information and Management Information Systems at McCombs School of Business, has won the Fall 2025 Dean’s Choice Award for her capstone project “Building Product Growth Metrics for Voila Voice.” Dean’s Choice Awards are selected from among graduating iSchool students by Interim Dean Soo Young Rieh at our semi-annual iSchool Capstone Poster Session events.

Nineteen UT Austin iSchool scholars, led by Interim Dean Prof. Soo Young Rieh, will present their research at the ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., November 14–18. Several community members, including Prof. Yan Zhang, Jiaxin An, and Akhil Adavi, received special recognition for their outstanding contributions.