Dean Kirby's message welcomes students to the spring 2016 semester and provides upcoming events and announcements for the College of Informatics. Some key upcoming events include an April 15th 10th anniversary celebration and a March 16th lecture by Sam Wang on data and elections. The message also announces that Galadriel Steinman, an Informatics alum, will be on the TV show NCIS Los Angeles. Several faculty received grants and the College of Informatics was the top major for fall 2015.

1. January 15, 2016
Message from Dean Kirby
Welcome to the 32nd semester of the College of Informatics, as we
begin that sixteen-week climb-out from short frigid days to the first
hints of summer.
If you opened up the NKU home page today, you read that our
Galadriel Steinman will be on NCIS Los Angeles next Monday
(January 18) playing a CEO of a tech startup. That seems just right
for an Informatics alum. Very typical of the success stories that have
been emanating from our fine college with ever greater intensity.
Many of them were featured in President Mearns' January
Convocation speech last week.
Among the events to look forward to this spring will be our huge
April 15 tenth anniversary celebration and our March 16
distinguished lecture by Sam Wang on data and the elections. As
always, we will welcome several new faculty and staff hires, including
our new executive director for the Center for Applied Informatics.
In fact, so many things going on, we need …. a newsletter! I hope
you enjoy this rebooted version of the Informatics newsletter
produced by our excellent COI Advancement staff.
And, as always, feel free to stop by my office if you’d like to have a
conversation about anything, especially if it’s my Tuesday morning
open office hours (still 8-10am). And we’ll certainly have other
occasions, structured and unstructured, to get together this year.
Happy New Year.
SAVE THE DATES!
MARCH 16 2016 @ 3pm
INAUGURAL INFORMATICS SPEAKER SERIES
featuring “Who needs pundits and pollsters?” with
Dr. Sam Wang, professor and Princeton Election Consortium
blog founder
George and Ellen Rieveshel Digitorium
(registration information will follow)
APRIL 15 2016
10th Anniversary Birthday Celebration
highlighting the accomplishments of the College from the
past decade.
(more information to follow)
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InfoByte
Starting January 26, the COI
will replace the “info-lunch”
with the “info-byte” every
Tuesday from
3:00p.m.-4:00p.m. in GH 204.
The location in Griffin Hall,
along with the bite-size snack
will hopefully draw more
students. Sign up at
www.signupgenius.com/go/
409094caaa722a02-infobytes
In Other News
• EMB Professor, Wes Akers
and his student
broadcasters received
straight A’s from the
Horizon League on their
filming performance of
games throughout the
semester. Way to go!
Several COI Faculty received
grants:
• Monica Gallegos has been
awarded a $10,000 P&G
Higher Education Grant to
fund her project, Health
Communication
Campaigns: Design,
Implementation, and
Evaluation.
• Austin Lee, Sara Drabik,
and Monica Gallegos have
been awarded project
grants from the Faculty
Senate Benefits Committee
• Austin Lee and Alyssa
Appelman have been
awarded Summer Faculty
Fellowships from the
Faculty Senate Benefits
Committee.
• Yi Hi and Hongmei Wang
received 2016 CINSAM
Grants
COI Tops Majors list
for Fall 2015!
1. COMPUTER INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
2. ORGANIZATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
3. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
4. NURSING
5. COMPUTER SCIENCE
6. SOCIAL WORK
7. UNDECLARED IN A/S (BA)
8. NURSING PRE-MAJOR BSN/
NO RN
9. COMMUNICATION STUDIES
#INFORMATICS10
INFORMATICA
News from the College of Informatics | Spring Semester 2016
Sam Wang predicted all
50 states correctly in the
2004 presidential election