As catastrophes like hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria strike, CMCI鈥檚 Leysia Palen and her students in the Department of Information Science turn to millions of Tweets to find ways of improving disaster response around the world.
Assistant Professor Jed Brubaker wants to make death "a little bit kinder to people." A founding member of the Department of Information Science, Brubaker helped develop Facebook鈥檚 Legacy Contact to enable users to determine the postmortem fate of their profiles.
