There’s still time to register for the Trust and Data: Tools for Our Changing World event this Wednesday, April 2, 2025. This free, full-day symposium at the Statler Hall on the Ithaca campus can also be attended remotely, via Zoom. Join Ben Maddox, Chief Information Officer for Cornell's Ithaca campus and Cornell Tech, along with a diverse group of leaders from throughout the university’s community.

Elaine L. Westbrooks

Elaine L. Westbrooks, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian and a member of the senior leadership team within the Provost's Office, will open the event. Serving in this leadership role since July 2022, she spearheads the vital operations and innovative programs of Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press. Cornell University Library holds over 8 million volumes and spans 18 unit libraries. In 2024, Westbrooks led the Library in creating its “One Library for One Cornell Strategic Plan Framework” to further advance scholarship at Cornell and beyond.

Lee Humphreys, Ph.D.

Lee Humphreys, Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Cornell, is one of the keynote speakers and panelists. Her research examines the adoption and integration of communication technologies into everyday life. She has studied mobile and social media focusing on questions of identity, social interaction, privacy, and surveillance.

“As a qualitative methods expert, I think a lot about what makes something data. The data of qualitative research are not always spreadsheets but scraps of papers, snapshots, field notes, recordings, and transcripts. How do we think about the trustworthiness of different kinds of data? What are “good data”? What are the best practices for ensuring our data and research are credible and reliable? I hope attendees leave with a broader sense of what kinds of data exist and their importance for science and society more broadly,” Humphreys said.

Tom Campion, Ph.D.

Tom Campion is also a keynote speaker and panelist for this event. As Chief Research Informatics Officer in the Office of the Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research and the Information Technologies & Services Department, as well as Director of Biomedical Informatics in the Clinical & Translational Science Center, Tom Campion leads the Architecture for Research Computing in Health program, which matches scientists with tools and services for obtaining electronic patient data and enabling scientific workflows. Dr. Campion is also Professor of Research in Population Health Sciences in the Division of Health Informatics.

Tom and Lee will take questions and share their experiences navigating trust and data during a panel discussion in the afternoon, facilitated by Ben. To learn more about the day’s agenda, presenters, or speakers, check the Trust and Data event page.

Register today.