Batya Friedman received the Future of Life Award from the Future of Life Institute for her pioneering work in Value Sensitive Design (VSD). The award, which includes a $50,000 prize, honors researchers who have integrated ethics and safety into computing and AI, emphasizing the importance of...

Wanda Pratt and Akansha Vaswani-Bye were awarded $53,523 from the UW Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions for their project titled “Partnering with Patients to Re-envision Psychiatric Hospitalization and Discharge.”  Mike Teodorescu was recognized as one of the Top 100 Romanians of...

Amy Ko and co-authors Brad Myers, Michael Coblenz and Htet Htet Aung’s paper titled “An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information During Software Maintenance Tasks” received a Most Influential Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering....

Chirag Shah gave a keynote titled “Toward Transmodal Information Experiences (TIE)” at the Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations at ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).  Jason Yip, along with co-authors Anh Le, Michelle Ma, Linh Bui, Anna Shi,...

Jason Yip, Jin Ha Lee and Chris Coward received $326,495 from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) for their proposal titled “Supporting the Development of Youth Digital Civic Engagement in LIbraries Through the Co-Design of Table-Top Games.” Lucy Lu Wang received $75,000...

Wes E. King received a Faculty Scholar Award of $2,000 from the Carl G. Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law at Duquesne University. The goal of this program is to cultivate a research cohort, provide peer support, and to generate new and innovative research...

Melanie Walsh and co-PIs Anna Preus, Golden Owens, and Geoffrey Turnovsky received a Collaborative Project Award of $14,096 from the Simpson Center for the Humanities for their project titled “AI, Creativity, and the Humanities.” Nassim Parvin and co-authors Sylvia Janicki and...

Lucy Lu Wang and Co-PIs Heather Feldner and Lynn Worobey were awarded an NIH R01 full award of $2.18 Million, with $453,000 going to the iSchool, for their proposal “Determining the relationships between provider bias, experiences of ableism, and health outcomes for people with mobility...

Hala Annabi and co-PIs Jennifer Mankoff, Scott Bellman, and Elizabeth Follmer were awarded $932,314 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Workplace Equity for Persons with Disabilities in STEM and STEM Education program for the project titled “Success Enablers that...

Sandy Littletree and co-author Charlene Krise’s paper titled “The Squaxin Island Museum Library and Research Center: A Report from the Field of Tribal Libraries and Museums” was published in International Journal of Librarianship. Charlene Krise is an enrolled tribal member of the...

Marika Cifor and co-PIs Temi Odumosu and Stacey Wedlake were awarded an $850,000 Mellon Foundation grant for “Faculty Organizing for Community Archives (FOCAS) Internship & Resource Development Project.” This is part of a collaborative grant with other institutions that have MLIS...

Temi Odumosu was a panelist and collaborator on a panel titled “Presence, Protest, and Possibility: AfroNordic Freedom Dreams: A Roundtable with the AfroNordic Feminisms Working Group” at the Society for Advancement of Scandinavian Studies Conference (SASS 2024). Temi Odumosu led...

Amy Ko was awarded two $20,000 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) awards for her NSF-funded projects titled “Collaborative Research: An Equitable, Justice-Focused Ecosystem for Pacific Northwest Secondary CS Teaching” and “Developing Authentic and Fair Computer Science...

Chirag Shah was awarded an NSF/CISE/IIS grant for $260,0047 for his project titled “A DREAM Proactive Conversational System,” a collaborative with Grace Hui Yang at Georgetown University. Nassim Parvin and co-collaborators Sylvia Janicki and Noura Howell’s paper “Crip Reflections...

Katie Davis and co-PIs Jason Yip, Alex Bowers, Vincent Cho, and Suleman Shahid were awarded a $75,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation for their project “Developing a Community-Based Model for Equitable AI Practices in Education Settings.” Katie Davis’s book Technology’s Child:...