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New Members Join Board of Advisors
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he iSchool is pleased to welcome these four new members to the Board of Advisors. The iSchool’s Board is a collective resource of alumni, senior business people, professionals, industry leaders, and other supporters, organized to assist in the development of the School and to help shape and realize its vision. For more information about board membership, contact Abigail McNeal-Harris at asmcneal@ syr.edu.
Sharon Dhall Managing Director, Modernization & Execution at TIAA
Jack Ryder CFO of Americas Finance at Microsoft
Doug Sweeny Chief Marketing Officer at One Medical
Graham Warner Chief Operating Officer, Americas Global Transaction Banking at Deutsche Bank
The iSchool Welcomes Two New Faculty Members BETH J. PATIN
B Beth J. Patin
Stephen Wallace
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eth J. Patin joined the faculty in August after receiving her a Ph.D. from the Information School at the University of Washington in Seattle. She earned her B.S. in Education from Loyola University in New Orleans and taught in the New Orleans Public Schools prior to pursuing her master’s degree in Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University. She has an additional master’s degree in Information Science from the University of Washington. In 2007, Patin was named an American Library Association Emerging Leader. Recently, she was nominated for the Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Washington. Patin currently serves a member of the advisory board for the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries. Her research focuses on the equity of information in two areas: crisis informatics and building cultural competence. She is currently researching how public libraries make their communities more resilient in times of crisis. “I am thrilled to join the amazing faculty at the Syracuse iSchool and excited to be a part of this community,” said Patin. “I look forward to collaborating with faculty, staff, and students on many projects especially in the areas of school librarianship, multicultural literature, cultural competence, and crisis informatics. I am always thinking about how libraries help their communities and I was drawn to the iSchool because of its commitment to ‘change how communities and organizations use library and information resources for the better.’”
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STEPHEN WALLACE
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tephen Wallace joined the faculty in August 2018 as a professor of practice, teaching courses in support of the iSchool’s programs in data science and data analytics. Wallace received his Doctorate of Professional Studies in Computing from Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. He holds an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lally School of Management, and a B.S. in Operations Management from Syracuse’s Whitman School of Management. His career has spanned more than 30 years across the information technology spectrum in roles of increasing responsibility, ranging from IT director to vice president and CIO. For the past five years, Wallace has worked as founder and managing partner for BizLitics, LLC, a small consulting firm that specializes in business analytics-based solutions and services. BizLitics develops and delivers end-to-end solutions for clients that include data analysis and assessment; data integration and blending; data warehouse design and build; and advanced data visualizations. Wallace has also taught a course on data mining and analytics at the Rochester Institute of Technology as an adjunct professor since 2014. “I am excited to be joining the iSchool as a Professor of Practice, and I look forward to both teaching and collaborating with faculty, staff, and students on a variety of data sciencerelated research projects,” said Wallace. “I believe my industry experience as an entrepreneur, consultant and CIO will provide students with a unique perspective on how data science professionals can help organizations improve their performance. I also look forward to pursuing my research interests in both healthcare analytics and cognitive systems development.”
