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Joshua Blumenstock awarded a $150,000 grant from IPA

A new grant from the Financial Capability Research Fund, a collaboration between Innovations Poverty Action (IPA) and Citi, will fund a study to evaluate a mobile phone-based employee savings program in Afghanistan. iSchool Assistant Professor Joshua Blumenstock is working with one of Afghanistan’s leading mobile communications providers and a team of researchers to design and implement a way for people...

iSchool Informatics students win Deloitte Case Competition

For the second year in a row, Information School students took first place in the 2013 Deloitte Case Competition . Informatics students (pictured left) Curtis Howell, Evan Griffith, Suparno Chakrabarti, along with fellow team mate Jim Inoue from the business school/computer science, won the top spot among the 25 competing teams. Howell, along with two iSchool master of science in...

Michael D. Crandall named Distinguished Alumnus for 2013

The 2013 recipient of the University of Washington Information School’s Distinguished Alumnus Award is Michael D. Crandall, a 1986 graduate of the MLIS program. Crandall is a Senior Lecturer in the iSchool, and has chaired the Masters of Science in Information Management program for the better part of a decade. In choosing Crandall, the selection committee considered his many decades...

MLIS students revitalize Audubon Center library

What could be better than working at a library in a park - especially a Seattle City Park that features a stand of old-growth forest, two active bald eagle nests, and a wide array of flora and fauna? For two masters of library and information science (MLIS) students, the answer to that was the opportunity to organize and offer broader...

Analyzing big data: What makes a Halo gamer great?

Jeff Huang, who will graduate with his doctorate degree in June, had done research on games before so he thought, why not do something fun in his fourth and final internship at Microsoft Research and apply methods he used in his dissertation research to look at how video game skills develop and what sets the top players apart from the...

Women in Informatics students champion iSchool outreach

The iSchool’s newest student organization, Women in Informatics (WINFO), has already sponsored a variety of creative social and educational events to help female students in the Informatics program connect with each other and with other women in STEM majors across the UW campus. The leadership (pictured left) includes Courtney Dutton, Stella Stuckey, Jenna Tollefson, and Jenna Terhar. WINFO, which was...

Linking in the locked up: iSchool student investigates digital literacy behind bars

Every day, prisons release thousands of inmates into the outside world — a high-tech, hyper-connected world they may no longer recognize. “Many people leaving prison are totally overwhelmed by the presence of digital tools everywhere they look. They are realizing that a whole world has passed them by while they were incarcerated,” says iSchool Ph.D. candidate Lassana Magassa. A lack...

David Levy profiled in Chronicle of Higher Education

David Levy’s research and teaching has increasingly attracted the attention of national media. Levy is a professor at the University of Washington Information School (iSchool). The Chronicle of Higher Education recently sent a journalist to interview Levy and attend his class, ‘Information and Contemplation’ , to report about his work on the distracting nature of technology and what we can...

Andy Ko receives Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) award

iSchool Assistant Professor Andy Ko is one of a handful of researchers to receive a $25,000 SEIF grant from Microsoft Research intended to advance software engineering applications and tools, particularly those using a natural user interface (NUI). Microsoft believes that NUI-based applications can promote digital inclusion of older adults, people with disabilities or other underserved populations. Teens, especially girls, are...

U.S. News ranks UW iSchool #3 in Graduate Library and Information Science

The latest rankings for “America’s Best Graduate Schools” were released March 12th by US News & World Report . The University of Washington Information School moved up from fourth to third place among U.S. master’s degree programs in library and information science (LIS) that are accredited by the American Library Association. “The iSchool’s ranking reflects the quality of the students...

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