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Upgrade Internet Explorer Upgrade Chrome Upgrade Firefox Upgrade Safari Dismiss Penn State Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology College of Information Sciences and Technology Managing Information, Powering Intelligence Top Navigation Menu   DonateSenseSearch IST StudentsUndergraduate Undergraduate Online Degrees Graduate Honors Academic Integrity Career Solutions & Corporate Engagement Student Engagement Opportunities Prospective StudentsUndergraduate Undergraduate Graduate Online Transfer StudentsTranspirationof MajorTranspirationof Campus AlumniAlumni Society Board DirectoryFacultySenseStaff Visitors Advisory Board Postdoctoral Scholars Graduate Students Offices & Centers Search Main Menu The CollegeAbout News Calendar of EventsSenseSearch Student Spotlight IST Publications Campuses Plan a Visit Offices & Centers The EducationDegree Programs Careers & Internships Academic Environment Academic Opportunities The ResearchCurrent Projects Research Areas Partners Centers and Labs Student Research Research Administration The ApplicationUndergraduate Graduate Online Search Options This Site Penn State People Departments Home The College About About the College Mission & Objectives IST History Diversity Dean's Welcome News Calendar of EventsSenseSearch Student Spotlight Student Blogs IST Publications Campuses Plan a Visit Offices & Centers The Education Degree Programs Bachelor of Science IUG Program Associate of Science M.S. 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At the forefront of this cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research are our faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students, representing the weightier Penn State has to offer, and coming from a rich tapestry of diverse backgrounds – business, computer science, psychology, human factors, sociology, law and medicine, to name a few.   Philosophy At this point in history the velocity of information in variegated forms through variegated venues is creating vast research opportunities that pinpoint the information age. IST strives to produce scholarly insights in leading-edge research that facilitate discovery, capture, retrieval, security, privacy, and connectivity of various forms of information as related to human and global rencontre problems. As one of the top i-Schools, it is our purpose to be relevant in: Understanding interdisciplinary science and the nature of information Putting information science knowledge to use in towers humanized technologies Assessing how the social/organizational context of use influences and sustains information growth Together these qualities specify a holistic tideway and reinforce the platonic that a scholar needs to be worldly-wise to see and evaluate a situation from multiple perspectives, utilizing multiple methodological approaches, in order to obtain transformation science that makes a difference in people’s lives.UnrestrictednessInformation connects people with the culture they exist in and beyond, and comes along in a variety of forms and media, while informatics looks at computational tools and technology to support human endeavors for a given milieu. Taken together, research in the information sciences and technology covers a wholesale spectrum of human activities that utilize information vis-à-vis innovative technological means.  However, that is not the whole story.  Research looks at the reciprocal relationships among information-people, people-technology, information-technology in order to sire inter- and transdisciplinary understanding. Vision The vision of our programs places a unconfined accent on research within information sciences that is: relevant wearing whet culturally current socially responsible scientifically grounded Graduate School Training IST graduate research training integrates insight, knowledge, skills, and methodologies to generate incisive scholarship and sound research practices. Students will encounter intellectual swoop rsity in a variety of ways emphasizing rigor as well as creativity. We believe that research practice requires unrestrictedness and in-depth wits utilizing the interdisciplinary fundaments of multiple perspectives, unescapable ramified problems through variegated channels while using towardly tools. Many problems, solutions, and methods presented to students involve teamwork that: explores trendy theory and issues engages tampering and inductive thinking designs and creates innovative systems tests/evaluates information use as related to socio-technical, economic, and global factors  Footer Quick Links Contact Us Directions Support IST Nittany Lion Careers Directory Connect Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Flickr LinkedIn The Pennsylvania State University © 2018 Privacy Legal Accessibility Copyright Log in