News & Events - PhD CIS Program

Celebrating Connection and Community: Mahalo for Making CIS CIS Homecoming 2025 a Memorable Event
Sajja Koirala Defends Her Dissertation: “What Needs to be Heard: The Roles of Audio Description in Preparing Blind or Low Vision People for Visits to Public Attractions”
David Stevens Defends Dissertation: “Cybersecurity Internship Impacts on Participant Professional Development and Employment: A Case Study”
CIS Seminar Series: Learning Design & Technology (LTEC) Faculty Panel
CIS Seminar Series: Professor Sun-Ki Chai on Culture, Identity and Social Computing
CIS Student Brook Conner Joined Hawai‘i Cybersecurity R&D and Capacity Building Symposium Panel
CIS Seminar Series: Data Quality Literacy
CIS Seminar on “Uncanny Discourse: A New Space for Research in Interaction”
Yiting Wang Defends Her Dissertation: Multimodal Analysis: The Performativity of Short-Form Videos and Their Affordances
Dr. Jingyi Gu Gives Talk on Chinese Live Streaming
CIS Ph.D. Student Camaryn Yokota Named 2024 Dan J. Wedemeyer Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient
Dr. Christina Jeong Gives Talk on Exploring Visibility and Voice in Digital Spaces
Dr. Youjeong Kim Gives Talk on The Influence of Emerging Technology on Persuasion
Six CIS Students Have Earned Their PhD and Just Graduated!
Yinan Sun Defends Her Dissertation “Exploring Cultural Affordances on WeChat ”
S. Kauwela Valeho-Novikoff Defends Her Dissertation “Aloha ʻĀina in the Library and Information Science Program: Understanding and Being a Hawaiian Place of Learning”
Moshe Karabelnik Defends His Dissertation “THE VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM PRACTICE OF OPPONENTS TO COVID-19 VACCINE MANDATES”
Joel Wilf Defends His Dissertation “TECHNICALLY UTOPIA: TECHNOLOGY AND CONTROL IN UTOPIAN FICTION”
Professor Kevin Bauer Gives Talk on The Delegation of Decision-making to AI
Prof. Blanca Polo Gives Talk on Her Academic Journey and Teaching Under Hawaii’s Community College System