{"id":122,"date":"2021-02-19T09:09:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T09:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2026-09-02T20:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:20:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"941\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/teaching.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/teaching.jpg 941w, https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/teaching-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/teaching-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 941px) 100vw, 941px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mission and Vision<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mission of the lab is to create synergy, provide structure, establish a hub for information science students, and to encourage collaboration with doctoral students and masters students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission and Vision The mission of the lab is to create synergy, provide structure, establish a hub for information science students, and to encourage collaboration with doctoral students and masters students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/istlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}