Tanu Mitra was awarded a $649,971 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation for her project titled “Understanding the Effects of Large Language Models on Online Community Information Work.”  Marika Cifor and co-author Anna Lauren Hoffman’s paper...

Aylin Caliskan was recognized as a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, awarded by the Center for Technology Innovation (CTI) at the Brookings Institution.  Heather Whiteman was invited by the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala to give a keynote talk titled "Human...

Joe Janes podcast titled Documents That Changed the World released a new episode titled “Negro Motorist Green Book, 1936.”  Several iSchool researchers are recipients of the Community Engaged Computing Initiative (CECI) funding:  Jason Young received $40,000 for...

Eva Maxfield Brown (PhD Student), David Farr (PhD Student), and Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student) were selected as Early-Career Fellows by the US Research Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI), receiving $25K in research funding.  Neel Gupta (PhD Student) and co-authors David...

Temi Odumosu and co-author David Schwittek’s paper titled “Annotating The New Union Club: A Case Study on Critical Praxis for Digital Art Histories,” was published in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide.   Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student) and co-authors Shehryar Subhani and...

Preetam Dammu (PhD Student) and co-authors Himanshu Naidu (MSIM Alumnus) and Chirag Shah’s paper titled “Dynamic-KGQA: A Scalable Framework for Generating Adaptive Question Answering Datasets” was accepted to the International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information...

Chirag Shah was elected to the 2025 Class of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Academy, which recognizes individuals who have made significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval (IR).   Amelia Dogan...

Jacob Wobbrock and co-authors L. Zhang, Z. J. Zhang, G. Clepper, F.M. Li, P. Carrington, and L. Findlater’s paper titled “Toward Expressive Visual Content by Blind Creators Through AI Support,” was accepted to the ACM Conference on Accessible Computing (ASSETS 2025). Hayoung Jung (CSE...

The iSchool had a great showing at this year's NEXT Library Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, with three interactive workshops:   · Lights, Camera, Community!  Using video to support community storytelling  Presented by: Jason Young, Cindy Aden, Chris Jowaisas, and Stacey...

Yim Register (PhD Student) received a national iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award for their project titled “The Future of AI Can Be Kind: Strategies for Embedded Ethics in AI Education.”  Sarah Nguyen (PhD Student) received the 2025 Center for an Informed Public (CIP) Robert...

Sandy Littletree and iSchool alumni Nicky Andrews, were recognized by the Library Journal as Change Agents in their 2025 Movers and Shakers, which represents the best of the creative, inspiring, visionary, and committed individuals who are advancing the library field.  Bingbing Wen (PhD...

The iSchool was well represented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025): Awards · Kate Starbird was recognized as a member of the SIGCHI Academy, which recognizes leaders who have shaped the field of human-computer interaction. · Alexis Hiniker...

Marika Cifor received a Smithsonian Institution Senior Fellowship for a book project titled “The Treatment Underground: Buyer’s Clubs, Data Activism, and the Politics of Illness from AIDS to COVID-19.” Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna’s book titled The AI Con: How to Fight Big...

Hans Jochen Scholl was recognized as one of the Lifetime Highly Ranked Scholars, a lifetime recognition for digital government research (DGR) contributions by ScholarGPS. Nassim Parvin’s co-edited volume with Neda Atanasoski, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, has an...

iSchool was well-represented at the 2025 iConference, with the following researchers participating: · Itza Carbajal (PhD student) in the presentation titled “Envisioning Critical Digital Futures for Archives” at the workshop on Envisioning Critical Digital Futures for Archives.” ·...