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...

Emma Spiro, along with colleagues from the Center for an Informed Public (CIP), published an article in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media (JQD:DM): Kennedy, I., Wack, M., Beers, A., Schafer, J. S., Garcia-Camargo, I., Spiro, E. S., & Starbird, K. (2022). Repeat Spreaders...

Marika Cifor’s book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS, was named in The Atlantic as one of nine books by which to better understand viruses and pandemics: “The Thin Line Between Sickness and Health.” Marika Cifor will be in conversation about her book, Viral Cultures,...

Tanu Mitra gave an invited keynote talk at the FEVER workshop (Fact Extraction and VERification) at ACL 2022. Her talk was titled, “Problematic Information on Social Media Platforms: Understanding and Countering.” Jevin West gave an invited lecture at the annual conference for the...

Heather Whiteman has the following news to share this week: She received a Fulbright Scholar Award which begins this June 2022. She will spend Summer 2022 and Winter 2023 quarters as a program director and will be designing, delivering, and standing up a master’s level specialization...

Emma Spiro gave a keynote at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Technologies to Support Critical Thinking in an Age of Misinformation. Chris Coward also participated, running the Misinformation Escape Room. Marika Cifor gave a talk for her forthcoming book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of...

Annie Searle’s article, “Ensuring An Ethical Lens on the Board Member Selection Process,” is the April BRC Report. The Board Risk Committee (BRC) is a thought leadership peer forum dedicated to Board Risk Committee members and Chief Risk Officers (CROs), a trusted place for the exchange...

Melanie Walsh’s free online programming textbook, Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python, was voted the "Best Digital Humanities Training Material" of 2021 by the Digital Humanities Awards. Melanie Walsh also gave her first keynote speech, "Data as Culture," at the Women in Data...

On April 23, Michelle H. Martin will be inducted into the Illinois State University College of Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame (her PhD alma mater). Michelle H. Martin gave the keynote address at the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Research Symposium hosted by the College of Information and...

Tanu Mitra: Gave an invited talk at the University of Michigan School of Information’s Data Science/Computational Social Science seminar series: “Understanding and Countering Problematic Information on Social Media Platforms.” Hayoung Jung, a CS undergraduate advised by Tanu Mitra,...