We welcome Prof Edie Rasmussen to the Division this semester, as Visiting Professor. Dr Rasmussen was the Director of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the Univ. of British Columbia (UBC) from 2003-2008, and is on sabbatical from UBC. She was the external examiner for our MSc Information  Studies programme from 2002-2006, and was a visiting lecturer in the Division in 1995.

At DIS, Dr Rasmussen is teaching a PhD-level course <em>Intelligent Information Retrieval</em>, and working on several research projects.

Dr Rasmussen (centre) tossing the Yusheng at Chinese New Year