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Documents that Changed the World: 'What is the Third Estate?', 1789
Monday, May 20, 2013
Joe Janes reached back two centuries to a self-published pamphlet in pre-revolutionary France for the latest installment of his podcast series, “Documents that Changed the World.” In the podcasts, Janes, professor in the UW Information School, explores the origin and evolving meaning of historical documents both famous and less known. UW Today presents these periodically, and all of the podcasts...
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Informatics students shine in Undergraduate Research Symposium
Friday, May 17, 2013
iSchool Informatics students presented nine research projects as part of the Sixteenth Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium , one of the largest in the country. The event attracts more than 1,000 student participants from all disciplines and across all three UW campuses. The Symposium provides an opportunity for students to explain their work to a general audience, resulting in valuable...
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Access Lens technology helps blind people lead more autonomous life
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Associate Professor Jacob Wobbrock and iSchool Ph.D. graduate Shawn Kane, who is now and Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, have developed a new way for blind people to use accessible gestures on paper documents and other physical objects, such as product packages, device screens, and home appliances to provide audio feedback about these objects. Called Access Lens, the hardware...
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Board Member to match GiveBIG Campaign contributions to iSchool
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Wednesday, May 15th is GiveBIG – the Seattle Foundation’s 24-hour online-only fundraising event. We are pleased to announce that iSchool Founding Board member Don Horowitz is donating $25,000 as a matching gift for any contributions made to the iSchool . Every donation, up to $25,000, made during the GiveBig event will be doubled by the Hon. Judge Horowitz. We encourage...
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What information competencies do employers need from recent college grads?
Monday, May 13, 2013
A newly released paper tackles one of the thorniest issues in higher education: What competencies make today's college graduates hirable? The paper, co-authored by Project Information Literacy's (PIL's) director Alison Head, iSchool doctoral students Jordan Eschler and Sean Fullerton, and California Maritime Academy librarian, Michele Van Hoeck, appears in this month's Library and Information Research's special issue on workplace information...
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Meditation and mutlitasking research cited in Huffington Post
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
David Levy and Jacob Wobbrock's research on the benefits of meditation training was cited in a Huffington Post article by Elisha Goldstein. Goldstein writes, "Research suggests you look into mindfulness training.In 2012, David Levy and Jacob Wobbrock, Information School professors at the University of Washington, conducted a study with Human Resource Managers and asked them to engage in multitasking through...
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Katie Davis' digital badge project featured in Seattle Times
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
In the article,"The future of credentials: Will degrees and resumes make room for the badge?," Seattle Times writer Monica Guzman interviews iSchool Assistant Professor Katie Davis about her new research project that will study the badge program being adopted by the Providence After School Alliance in Rhode Island. The article notes, "The program, which won funding from Mozilla, the MacArthur...
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Successful iAffiliates Day brings community partners and faculty together
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
More than fifty iAffiliate partners and dozens of iSchool faculty and staff attended the second iAffiliates Day on Thursday, April 11. The event, a benefit of the iAffiliate program , provides a forum for organizations to learn about iSchool research and explore areas for collaboration using an unconference format. The event was kicked-off with lightning presentations on a variety of...
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Barbara Endicott-Popovsky appointed to National CyberWatch Committee
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
In response to a significant increase in the number, severity and consequences of cyber attacks, CyberWatch is evaluating Centers of Excellence with the goal of making academic programs stronger sources of training skilled experts in the field of cybersecurity. CyberWatch is an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Center, headquartered at Prince George’s Community College and funded by a grant from the...
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David Stearns joins the iSchool
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The iSchool’s newest senior lecturer, David Stearns, brings a broad background in technology, professional work and research to his new position starting in August. Stearns, who has a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from the University of Edinburgh, worked for 12 years in the software industry, including nine years at Microsoft, where his projects involved designing and building information...
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