Jevin D. West was awarded $110,000 from JSTOR to continue his research on improving access to scholarly literature. He also gave one of the keynote presentations at the "Future of Facts in a 'Post-Truth’ World” meeting held at the The Phillips Collection Museum in Washington DC. This...

Quinn DuPont will give an invited lecture at the University of Chicago's Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science on Friday, May 18 titled, "Origins of the Encrypted Information Society (1945-2013)." Later this month he will also participate in a panel presentation titled, "The...

Jake Wobbrock presented to about 150 people at the Puget Sound SIGCHI local chapter a talk entitled, “Ability-Based Design: Making Technologies Match All People’s Abilities and Context.” The event was the best attended in the Puget Sound SIGCHI speaker series to-date. It was held in the UW...

Katie Davis had two papers accepted and appeared on an education podcast: “Using digital badges to promote student agency and identity in science learning” will appear in Proceedings of the Connected Learning Summit (CLS ’18) along with Caroline Pitt, Adam Bell, and Ada Kim....

The iSchool has not just one, but two recipients of the IMLS 2018 National Leadership Grants for Libraries! Jason Yip and Jin Ha Lee were awarded $353,071 for “Supporting Intergenerational Participatory Design Groups for Librarians and Youth for Design Thinking Around Digital...

Jessica Hullman has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award. The total amount of the award will be $523,516. Her project CAREER: Enhancing Critical Reflection on Data by Integrating Users’ Expectations in Visualization Interaction begins June 1, 2018 and ends May 31, 2023....

Michelle Martin is the recipient of the 2018 Children’s Literature Association Mentoring Award. The award recognizes Michelle’s determination to encourage and nurture the scholarly work of others in the children’s literature field. She will be honored at the 2018 Children’s Literature...

Negin Dahya, along with co-authors Sarah Dryden-Peterson and Elizabeth Adelman, received the 2018 AERA (American Educational Research Association) Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award for Pathways to Educational Success Among Refugees: Connecting Locally and Globally Situated Resources. The article was...

Jaime Snyder had two papers accepted with accompanying invitations to present: "Interpretive Impacts of Text Visualization: Mitigating Political Framing Effects" was accepted to ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) with Eric Baumer and Geri Gay. They have also been invited...

Ricardo Gomez’s LatinX @ UW is now available on amazon.com. The book presents a tapestry of images and stories of LatinX faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington. Proceeds from the sale of this book will support scholarships for LatinX undocumented students at UW. Hala...

Alexis Hiniker’s guest blog post Should screens tell kids to end screen-time? was the lead article on the Jacobs Foundation blog this past Wednesday (February 28th). Chris Holstrom will present his accepted paper "Social Tagging: Organic and Retroactive Folksonomies" at the Joint Conference on...

Jason Yip received a Google Faculty Research Award! He and Julie Kientz of the UW HCDE were awarded $60,000 to study "Designing for Inclusive Joint Media Engagement." Congratulations, Jason! Michelle Martin has lots of terrific news to share: At the Association of Library and Information...

Amy J. Ko was awarded a 10-year most influential paper award from the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). This is the premiere conference on software engineering research. ICSE selected her paper, "Debugging reinvented: asking and answering why and why not questions...

Congratulations to iSchoolers who received Best Paper Honorable Mentions from CHI 2018! The papers are: Designing a Reclamation of Body and Health: Cancer Survivor Tattoos as Coping Ritual by Jordan Eschler, Arpita Bhattacharya, and Wanda Pratt “Suddenly, we got to become therapists for...

Jin Ha Lee, Michelle Carter, and Marc Schmalz’s article titled, “It’s Not You, It’s Me: Identity, Self-Verification, and Amazon Reviews,” was accepted by ACM SIGMIS Database: The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems.