Batya Friedman has terrific news to share: Along with Ryan Calo and Tadayoshi Kohno, received a three-year grant for 1 million dollars from the MacArthur Foundation to support on-going work at the UW Tech Policy Lab, with an emphasis on activities at the intersection of tech policy and...

Susan Hildreth gave the keynote address for the Friends of the Truckee, California Public Library. Her talk titled, Public Libraries of the Future, helped kick-off an initiative to build a new branch library. It was held at the Emigrant Trail Museum in Donner Memorial State Park. Anna Lauren...

Michelle Martin has lots of news to share: Along with Liz Mills and Katie Campana, she received two acceptances to ALISE 2018 that include: Paper: “Mind the Gap: Bringing Research Methods out of the Classroom and into Everyday Youth Services to Build Research Literacy.” Poster:...

Ian S. King gave an invited talk at the Vintage Computer Festival in Berlin. His talk titled, “Computer History From Below: Reading Human Values in Artifacts”, connected his hands-on experiences as a founder of the Living Computer Museum with the theoretical studies for his dissertation. He was...

Anna Hoffmann has terrific publication news that include two book chapters and one article: Spaces for the Future: A Companion to Philosophy of Technology (edited by Joseph Pitt and Ashley Shew) included her chapter, “Data, technology and gender: Thinking about (and from) trans lives” as...

Bill Howe, along with collaborators at Drexel University, was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) BIGDATA grant on responsible data science. The award is $1.2 million total, with $364k coming to the UW. Andy Ko was awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation! Along with...

Hala Annabi received a Population Health Initiative research grant from the UW Population Health Initiative for her project “Prepare for the IT Workplace Program (PREP for IT).” Along with her co-PI, Jill Locke from Speech and Hearing Sciences, and co-I Gary Stobbe from Neurology, the team will...

Jacob O. Wobbrock has terrific news about two of his papers: His paper entitled, “Epidemiology as a framework for large-scale mobile application accessibility assessment” with co-authors Annie Ross (CSE), Xiaoyi Zhang (CSE), and James Fogarty (CSE) was nominated for the ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS...

Jessica Hullman received an Early Career Researcher Award from the National Academy of Science’s Sackler Colloquium that will sponsor her travel to upcoming NAS events on science communication. Annie Searle was featured in the August 2017 issue of The Connector in an article titled, Interview...

Norah Abokhodair successfully defended her dissertation, titled Transnational Saudi Arabian Youth and Facebook: Enacting Privacy and Identity. Her research sought to understand how transnationals conceptualize and enact privacy and self-presentation during back-and-forth movement from Saudi Arabia...

Martez Mott has terrific award news! He was awarded an $18,000 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant. Martez is among the inaugural group of doctoral students to receive this grant. Read more on the Microsoft Research Blog in the article titled, Dissertation Grant Winners Announced. He was...

Jevin West won a $50,000 award from the Knight Foundation's News Challenge, along with collaborator Carl Bergstrom, for their work on Calling BS in the Age of Fake News. They will develop a set of tools for the general public, high school students, and journalists to combat misinformation — with...

Sandy Littletree has lots to share: She is the recipient of the inaugural Cobell Summer Graduate Research Fellowship. For the fellowship, she will continue her research on the history and development of tribal libraries. Congratulations on this prestigious award! ... She presented and served...

Shawn Walker successfully defended his dissertation titled, The Complexity of Collecting Digital and Social Media Data in Ephemeral Contexts, this week! His work advances the field of information science by empirically investigating how the ephemeral nature of social media data, metadata, and...

Jordan Eschler successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, “Designing for the Dynamic Needs of Young Adult Cancer Survivors”! Not only did she present her work with young adult cancer survivors, but she also highlighted the substantial contributions her work, including: improved...