The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) is delighted to announce the 2009-2010 University of Illinois Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technology, Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC: http://www.hastac.org) Scholars.  The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program recognizes graduate and undergraduate students who are engaged in innovative work across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the sciences that have been nominated by University of Illinois faculty. The University of Illinois 2009-2010 Scholars are:

Derek Attig, Department of History
Patrick Berry, Department of English
Amber Buck, Department of English
Steven Doran, Institute for Communications Research
Damian Duffy, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Bonnie Fortune, School of Art & Design
Mark Fredrickson, Department of Political Science
Jennifer Guiliano, Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Andrew Jones, Department of History
Michelle Kleehammer, Department of History
Jeffrey Kolar, School of Fine and Applied Arts
Ryuta Komaki, Institute for Communications Research
Jenni Lieberman, Department of English
Fengge Liu, Department of Landscape Architecture
Safiya Noble, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Samuel Oehlert, Department of History
Sarah Roberts, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Karen Rodriguez’G, Department of History
Pongsakorn “Tum” Suppakitpaisarn, Department of Landscape Architecture
Michael Verderame, Department of English

Scholars act as the eyes and ears of HASTAC’s virtual network, bringing the work happening on the University of Illinois campus and in their disciplines to international attention. The Scholars will spend the year as part of a virtual community of students creating, reporting on, blogging, vlogging, and podcasting events and scholarship for an international audience on the HASTAC website. Scholars will work together to facilitate the growth of digital disciplines on the Illinois campus via outreach and development efforts.

To learn more about the HASTAC Scholars program and to read the on-going blogs and efforts of the University of Illinois scholars, please visit:

http://www.hastac.org/scholars

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

The RIN (Research Information Network) is looking to fund a series of case studies that will provide a detailed analysis of how humanities researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources. The case studies will focus on the behaviours and needs of researchers working in a number of subject or disciplinary areas in the humanities. They follow a first round of case studies in the life sciences (to be published shortly). We are making available up to £120,000 for this project, which is intended to run from November 2009 to September 2010. Closing date for this call is call is 30 September 2009.

More information available at the URL http://www.rin.ac.uk/humanities-case-studies.

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Sarah Gentleman
Communications Officer
**Research Information Network**

96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
telephone: 020 7412 7241

email: sarah.gentleman@rin.ac.uk
website: http://www.rin.ac.uk/

*Freedom of information: what’s in it for researchers?* – free RIN workshop, 14 September 2009 in Glasgow, more information and booking at http://www.rin.ac.uk/foi-scotland.