Tanu Mitra, in collaboration with PesaCheck, a fact-checking organization in East Africa, has been awarded a Fact-Checking Innovation Initiative grant by the Poynter Institute for Auditing Social Media for Misinformation. The total award amount is $99,707, of which $54,707 will come to the...

Beginning in 2021, J. Elizabeth Mills and Dr. Kathleen Campana (Kent State) will conduct an evaluation of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Read, Baby, Read initiative. Read, Baby, Read aims to increase the availability of early education for families in Philadelphia’s low-income communities...

Nicole Kuhn will present “Developing Indigenous Community-Based Participatory Design Methods to Understand Tribal Communities’ Use of Information Technologies for Addressing Critical Health Needs” as part of the American Indian & Indigenous Studies (AIIS) Scholars Program showcase on...

Jacob O. Wobbrock received funding from the Google Award for Inclusion Research program in the amount of $60K for The Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit: Enabling Accessible Mobile Interactions through Advanced Sensing and Modeling. Karen Fisher and Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (University of La...

Hans Jochen Scholl was interviewed for an episode of Disaster Zone in which he talked about his research on Disaster Information Management Systems. The Disaster Zone podcast is followed by a large practitioner community and focuses on all facets of disasters; the before, during and after of events...

Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Maya Magarati (UW Social Work), and Terri Parr (Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians) received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) award for A Holistic Environmental Health Approach to Promoting Health, Equity, and Water Security in One Alaskan Native Village. The...

Amy J. Ko (Principal Investigator) and Anne Beitlers (UW College of Education), in partnership with the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, and Shoreline and Highline school districts, were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Network Systems (CNS) grant...

Jin Ha Lee and Nicole Santero participated on a panel for Rhizome Connect titled, ”Researching BTS Through Data & Information Science.” Chirag Shah, Shawon Sarkar, and Jiqun Liu (Rutgers University) presented a paper at the ACM CHIIR 2020 virtual conference last week: “Identifying and...

  Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom’s new book, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, was published by Penguin Random House this week. Their book has been reviewed by Wired Magazine and The Economist. Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom also co-authored an op-ed piece...

UW Continuum College created an online toolbox for effective online teaching, based on and illustrated by the practice of Ricardo Gomez in LIS 570: Research, Assessment and Design. Each of the Seven Principles for Effective Teaching includes an explanation and examples drawn from his teaching...

Jaime Snyder and Ari Pollack (MSIM alum) received $159,042 from the Kidney Precision Medicine Project’s (KPMP) Glue Grant program. Their project, “Designing a Visual Decision Aid for Shared Decision Making after Renal Biopsy,” builds on Dr. Pollack’s K23 award: “iKNOW IT: Increasing...

Lassana Magassa was awarded the Eugene Garfield Dissertation Fellowship by the Beta Phi Mu Honor Society. He is one of six PhD students nationwide to receive this fellowship this year. The purpose of this fellowship is to support those working on their dissertation in the field of Library and...

Michelle H. Martin and Nadia Mansour published an article in the online journal Barnboken titled, “What Can Danish Multicultural Children’s Literature and African American Children’s Literature Learn from Each Other?: Literary Histories in Dialogue.” Barnboken is an international open...

J. Elizabeth Mills has been awarded a Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2020. The purpose of this fellowship is to support Ph.D. candidates in the final stages of writing their dissertations. Congratulations, Liz! Katie Davis and Cecilia Aragon had a...

Rolf Hapel had an article published in the peer reviewed Public Library Quarterly (PLQ) titled, “Building A Contemporary Public Library Through Community Engagement: A Personal Journey.” The article discusses how a broad understanding of community engagement has influenced the conception,...