Martha E. Pollack

I became Dean of the School of Information at the University of Michigan on August 1, 2007.   SI is a wonderful, intellectually exciting school filled with faculty, students, and staff who are committed to exploring the ways in which information is collected, organized, curated, analyzed, disseminated, and preserved--and most importantly, asking how information and access to information can affect human lives.   The challenges and opportunities of the information age require a highly interdisciplinary perspective, and thus SI includes faculty with training in economics, psychology, computer science, business, history, law, and library and information science.  It provides innovative graduate-level training to the next generation of information professionals, and it is currently partnering with other departments on campus to develop a new undergraduate concentration.  You can read more about SI on its extensive web pages, or come and visit us when you're in Ann Arbor.

"Information is the currency of democracy."  --Thomas Jefferson