Chirag Shah has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest and most prestigious association of computing professionals. The Distinguished Members Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years...

Mike Teodorescu coauthored a US Patent and Trademark Office Economics Working Paper Series, "Closing the Gender Gap in Patenting: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial at the USPTO," which informed this USPTO policy note on reducing gender disparities in patenting. Jevin West gave an invited...

As part of Google's growing efforts to advance health equity and mitigate health disparities, Lisa Dirks and Wanda Pratt received a $50,000 gift from Google to support Lisa’s thesis work on “Co-designing with Alaska Native communities to communicate equitable health research...

The iSchool was well-represented at the 2022 ASIS&T Annual Meeting: Harry Bruce received the 2022 ASIS&T Award of Merit, the highest honor presented by the Association. Congratulations, Harry! Opening plenary keynote: Kate Starbird: "Participatory Disinformation: How Witting Agents...

After two years of preparation, Jacob O. Wobbrock will be serving next week as the General Co-Chair for ACM UIST 2022 [uist.acm.org], held in Bend, OR. UIST is the premiere forum for technical contributions in human-computer interaction. Mike Teodorescu's humanitarian medical device SurgiBox...

Marika Cifor gave two invited talks about her recent book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS [marikacifor.com] (University of Minnesota Press, May 2022) at Simmons University and Dartmouth College. Prerna Juneja’s first authored paper with Tanu Mitra won two recognitions at...

Mike Teodorescu received two awards at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2022): Academy of Management Technology Innovation Management Best Paper Award for "Patents and the Independent Inventor Lifecycle" (https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/AMBPP.2022.199...

Mike Teodorescu traveled to the University of Cambridge UK School of Law and co-presented research on the first Randomized Control Trial on Independent Inventors ran at the US national level at the US Patent and Trademark Office titled "Challenges facing independent inventors: Do patents help?" in...

Temi Odumosu published an essay in Public Memory, Public Art – Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today [artandtheory.org] (Art and Theory Publishing): “On Shadows and Disintegrating Forms: A mixtape for an imperfect moment.” Jason Young, Katie Davis, Jevin West, Shaun Glaze...

Dave Hendry, Aurora Martin (Front and Centered), and Esther Min (Front and Centered) received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) program grant of $49,999 for Enhancing the Capacity for Environmental and Social Resiliency in Overburdened Communities. Wanda...

Megan Finn, in collaboration with Katherine Shilton (University of Maryland), received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) program grant of $225,929 for the Development of Research Ethics Governance Projects in Computer Science. Katie Davis, along with Mega...

Helene Williams is on the advisory board for the Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries project, for which the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded $238,689 last week with a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant. The PI is Katharine Macy, an MLIS alum, who is based at...

Nic Weber, Sandra Gesing (University of Illinois at Chicago), Jeffrey C Carver (University of Alabama), Karthik Ram (Regents of the University of California, Berkeley), and Daniel S Katz (Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign) received a National Science Foundation...

Batya Friedman presented the opening keynote titled, “Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination: Leveraging the Machinery of Value Sensitive Design” at NAACL 2022 (Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) on July 11, 2022 in Seattle, WA....

Sandy Littletree gave an invited presentation at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2022): “Indigenous Knowledge Organization.” 20th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Virtual Workshop, JCDL 2022 Conference. June 23, 2022. Sandy Littletree...