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Ph.D. alum, student recognized for teaching

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Teaching assistants and pre-doctoral lecturers play a crucial role in shaping students’ academic experiences. The Information School recently recognized two of them — Ph.D. candidates Erin Beneteau and Mandi Harris — for their...

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MSIM students called to lead

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Dozens of online students and several alumni from the Information School’s Master of Science in Information Management program gathered at the University of Washington campus for the third annual MSIM Online Student Summit to...

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Making connections

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Museums play an important role in learning, storytelling and community, and UW Museology students have fostered a place on campus for just that.The two-year Museology master’s program features a cohort model to connect students with...

Katie Davis

Where kids and tech collide

Friday, February 21, 2025

To post, or not to post? That is the question.Or rather, that is one of many questions facing young people, their parents and their teachers in today’s fast-paced digital world. For educator Melissa Chittenden, who has worked at...

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Ph.D. student teaches and learns

Thursday, February 13, 2025

In a complex world, educating children about adult issues like climate change may present a daunting challenge. However, for iSchool Ph.D. candidate Itza Carbajal, equipping youth with the skills to understand these topics is second...

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Match-making for job seekers

Friday, February 14, 2025

Despite the morning’s sparkle as snow covered the UW Seattle campus, iSchool students and alumni gathered for the 2025 UW iSchool Career Fair.The annual iSchool Career Fair offers the community the opportunity to network with employers...

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Marika Cifor

Grant funds MLIS students' work in community archives

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Community archives are an important way of preserving knowledge and making it accessible, including for historically marginalized groups whose stories are often ignored or misrepresented. Such archives, however, rarely have the resources they need. A new grant will help address some of that problem while...

Adrian Lavergne

MSIM graduate named Presidential Management Fellow

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

MSIM ‘24 graduate Adrian Lavergne was selected as a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) finalist. Until recently, the PMF was a prestigious leadership development program for advanced degree holders, offering a pathway into careers in the federal government. Lavergne’s interest in public...

Robert Wolfe

Study finds strong negative associations with teenagers in AI models

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

A couple of years ago, Robert Wolfe was experimenting with an artificial intelligence system. He wanted it to complete the sentence, “The teenager ____ at school.” Wolfe, a University of Washington doctoral student in the Information School, had expected something mundane, something that most teenagers...

Anind K. Dey

In times of crisis, count on iSchool students and alumni

Monday, February 10, 2025

As last month’s devastating wildfires raged in Los Angeles, the city’s residents faced a barrage of falsehoods on social media along with erroneous evacuation alerts from official sources. In search of timely, accurate information, millions turned to Watch Duty, a free and nonprofit app that tracks...

Chirag Shah

Q&A: Will the next generation of AI be agents that can shop autonomously?

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

While most people like giving gifts, plenty don’t particularly like shopping for those gifts — drifting through online search results, comparing 4.3 stars to 4.5 stars. But big tech is racing for a future in which artificial intelligence bots can shop for you. Among the buzziest tech this season is a new...

Batya Friedman

Batya Friedman receives Future of Life Award

Monday, December 9, 2024

Trained as a computer scientist in the late 1970s, Batya Friedman has been asking questions about how to live well in the world and how to treat people with dignity and respect. These questions, along with an interest in tools and technology, drew Friedman to ask herself how she could build something that...

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