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...

Kristen Shinohara successfully defended her dissertation titled, Design for Social Accessibility: Incorporating Social Factors in the Design of Accessible Technologies! Her topic of Social Accessibility is a concept she initiated that examines how to effectively incorporate social factors into...

Jin Ha Lee, Stephen Keating, and Travis Windleharth had a paper accepted to iPres 2017 (14th International Conference on Digital Preservation) titled, Challenges in Preserving Augmented Reality Games: A Case Study of Ingress and Pokémon GO. ... Negin Dahya has publication news to share: Along...

Jin Ha Lee, David Hendry, Jason Yip, Helene Williams, Liz Mills, along with Rachel Ivy Clarke of Syracuse University, were awarded an IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program award for their project “Designing Future Library Leaders.” A total of $4200 will come to the iSchool for this...

Michelle Martin, Liz Mills and Katie Campana have been awarded a $49,797 IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries. Their proposal titled, Project LOCAL: Library Outreach as a Community Anchor in Learning, will reach families with children under the age of twelve in underserved communities not...

Jason Yip made FINALIST for the UW Distinguished Teaching Award 2017. Way to go, Professor Yip! He also had a workshop accepted to the 2017 IDC (16th Interaction Design and Children Conference), to be held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California from June 27th to 30th. His is the Workshop...

Jacob O. Wobbrock gave an invited research talk on Ability-Based Design at the University of Michigan School of Information on March 21, 2017. The talk was part of UM’s MISC speaker series. The MISC Group is a multi-departmental group patterned directly after our DUB Group. Wobbrock also...

Bill Howe, Dominik Moritz, Daniel Halperin, Ed Lazowska, and Shrainik Jain, a Ph.D. student in CSE who led the project, won one of four awards for reproducibility for their SIGMOD paper, SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment. ... Susan Hildreth’s March 2017 saw her...