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No matter what career path she inevitably chose, Anagha Todalbagi knew she wanted to be a catalyst for a better world. Growing up in Bangalore, India, her love of math, computer science and creative writing coalesced into a will to serve the greater good or, in her own words, to be a “change agent”. In time, she reasoned technology would be the tool to...

What do students aim to achieve in the Master of Professional Studies (MPS) program in Information Science? For first-semester MPS student Terry Vallery, he sees it as an opportunity to solidify his undergraduate work in human-computer interaction through hands-on project work with real clients. Terry earned a bachelor’s degree in Science and Technology...

Thanks to Cornell Information Science’s early admit option for the Master of Professional Studies program, students like Shea Belsky can chip away at a master’s degree while finishing up their undergraduate studies. Now, mere months after attaining a BS degree in Information Science, Shea – a past president of the Information Science Student Association –...

Take note, students: it’s okay if you have yet to make a firm decision on your career path. Current MPS student Eric Porter (Info Sci ’17; MPS '18) gets it. He was there, too. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do until March of my senior year in undergrad,” he admits. But by then, mere months before graduation, Eric’s interdisciplinary Information Science...

The business students traveled to a rural region of Peru to brainstorm sustainable business ideas for a local community.

Lola Legrand (Info Sci '17, MPS ’18) is savoring her time as a graduate student and making the most of it. Her ambitious class schedule clocks in at 19 credit hours this semester, filled with courses that inform her big-three interests: technology, design and law. Why such a heavy work load in her opening MPS semester? “I didn’t know how to decide which...