Anind Dey, Ian Li (Carnegie Mellon University), and Jodi Forlizzi (Carnegie Mellon University) received a 10-year impact award at UbiComp/ISWC 2021 for their paper (published in 2011) “Understanding My Data, Myself: Supporting Self-Reflection with Ubicomp Technologies.” Anind Dey gave the...

Stacey Wedlake and partner organizations presented “’Help is really necessary’: Case study of a technology distribution program for unemployed workers” at DIPRC2021: Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference. Stacey Wedlake and research partners from the Seattle Jobs Initiative,...

Julie Kientz (UW HCDE), Jason Yip, and Alexis Hiniker are collaborating on the new Connecting the EdTech Research EcoSystem (CERES) Network, an $11M initiative funded by the Jacobs Foundation. Of the $11M total award to the University of California, Irvine, $500,000 will come to the University of...

Under the title "Digital Government Research — Then, Now, and in Years to Come,” Hans Jochen Scholl gave the keynote speech at the EGOV-CeDEM-ePart conference held at the University of Granada, Spain. The conference was held in a hybrid format with about 40 attendees on...

Lisa Dirks has received a four-year Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Parent F31-Diversity) for Co-designing a Technology-based Health Research Results Dissemination Tool with AIAN People....

Alexis Hiniker and colleagues from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor have been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Project (R01) grant of $85,071 for Technology Use and Emerging Executive Functioning in Early Childhood. Yim Register and Emma Spiro had their paper accepted for...

Bill Howe has been awarded a $200,000 grant by Cisco Systems, Inc. for Ethical AI in the Public Sector: Towards A Semi-Synthetic Data Fabric for AI Evaluation. Chris Coward and Jin Ha Lee have been awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for...

Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro, and Jevin West have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) grant of $2.25M for their project Building Rapid-Response Frameworks to Support Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations for Mitigating Online Disinformation. Chirag...

Jason Yip, along with colleagues from the University of Amsterdam and the University of the Witwatersrand, was awarded a CDN $50,000 grant by CIFAR and the Jacobs Foundation for Understanding socioeconomic disparities in education through the lens of children’s self-perceptions. Alexis...

Research Services would like to share some wonderful news about one of our team: Trisha Brinton, Grants and Contracts Specialist, was selected by the Society of Research Administrators International (SRAI) for the inaugural class of Future of the Field honorees. Trisha was selected by a...

Sandy Littletree: was elected to a four-year term on the Indigenous Matters Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, beginning August 2021. gave an invited talk, “Circling Relationality in LIS,” at the UCLA Information Studies Colloquium....

Karen Fisher’s longstanding iSchool-supported, UNHCR Jordan mission “Za’atari Camp Libraries” won the 2021 International Joy of Reading award ($10,000) from Systematic, announced at Next Library in Aarhus, Denmark. Over 40 libraries applied, marking the first time won by war refugees and...

Along with one other inaugural recipient (Dr. Gil-Garcia), at the 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2021) the award of “Fellow of the Digital Government Society,” which honors exceptional and groundbreaking contributions to the study domain of...

Tanu Mitra has been awarded an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) grant of $508,476 for Influencing Communities and Narratives: New Techniques for Understanding Adversarial Influence Online. Jacob O. Wobbrock has been awarded a Social Experiences in VR Environments...

Joseph T. Tennis published an article in the journal Palabra Clave: Araújo, P. C., Guimarães, J. A. C., Tennis, J. T. (2021). "A concepção de epistemologia da organização do conhecimento = The conception of epistemology of knowledge organization," Palabra Clave: 10(2). Joseph T. Tennis and...