Research Updates

Aug. 1, 2020
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...

July 20, 2020
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...

July 7, 2020
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...

June 29, 2020
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...

June 12, 2020
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...

June 6, 2020
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,...

May 29, 2020
Ricardo Gomez: published a book with Latino Center for Health titled, Latinx Experience in Academia: Charting the paths of Latinx faculty at the University of Washington. His book features interviews with 30 Latinx faculty at UW who are being honored for their accomplishments in 2020....

May 24, 2020
Batya Friedman, Ryan Calo, and Tadayoshi Kohno with Nick Logler received a $300K gift from the Omidyar Network to the UW Tech Policy Lab to support a new initiative on food resilience in the time of Covid-19 as well as general UW Tech Policy Lab activities. Stephanie Ballard, Elias Greendorfer, and...

May 8, 2020
Nic Weber was named one of Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers of 2020 for his work as technical director of the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR). Jaime Snyder received an Honorable Mention Award at DIS 2020 (Designing Interactive Systems) for her paper, “Visualizing Personal Rhythms: A...

April 26, 2020
Alexis Hiniker was quoted in a UW News article titled, “‘I saw you were online’: How online status indicators shape our behavior.” The article highlights one her CHI 2020 papers, “User Experiences with Online Status Indicators,” which was co-authored by Camille Cobb (Carnegie Mellon),...

April 10, 2020
Yim Register was interviewed by the UW Daily for an article titled, “iSchool Ph.D. teaches inclusive machine learning using personal data.” The Center for an Informed Public (CIP) hosted a livestream event in partnership with Washington State University (WSU) to address coronavirus...

March 27, 2020
Chirag Shah was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $23,815 to support his upcoming project: Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Information Exploration and Access (iSEA). Jin Ha Lee, Marc Schmalz, Stephen Keating, and Jeewon Ha received the iConference 2020 Best Short Research...

March 23, 2020
Anind Dey, Jennifer Mankoff (UW CSE), Paula Nurius (UW School of Social Work), and Eve Riskin (UW ECE) were awarded a Population Health Initiative pilot research grant of $50,000 for their project “Analysis to Translation: Accelerating and Tailoring Responses to Student Mental Health.” Their...

Feb. 28, 2020
Anna Lauren Hoffmann: Gave an invited talk as part of the Critical Media + Digital Studies Workshop at Columbia University. Her talk was tilted “The Discursive Bases of Data Violence.” Presented “Data Violence, or: How the Push for Fair and Inclusive Tech Undermines the Pursuit of...

Feb. 21, 2020
Marika Cifor spent the week in Copenhagen at the invitation of the University of Copenhagen Uncertain Archives Research Group. During the visit, she presented and led a seminar on her book in progress, Viral Cultures. She also gave an invited talk, "Data Stains and Data Remains: The Epistemologies...