Karen Fisher’s longstanding iSchool-supported, UNHCR Jordan mission “Za’atari Camp Libraries” won the 2021 International Joy of Reading award ($10,000) from Systematic, announced at Next Library in Aarhus, Denmark. Over 40 libraries applied, marking the first time won by war refugees and...

Along with one other inaugural recipient (Dr. Gil-Garcia), at the 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2021) the award of “Fellow of the Digital Government Society,” which honors exceptional and groundbreaking contributions to the study domain of...

Tanu Mitra has been awarded an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) grant of $508,476 for Influencing Communities and Narratives: New Techniques for Understanding Adversarial Influence Online. Jacob O. Wobbrock has been awarded a Social Experiences in VR Environments...

Joseph T. Tennis published an article in the journal Palabra Clave: Araújo, P. C., Guimarães, J. A. C., Tennis, J. T. (2021). "A concepção de epistemologia da organização do conhecimento = The conception of epistemology of knowledge organization," Palabra Clave: 10(2). Joseph T. Tennis and...

Dean & Professor Emeritus Mike Eisenberg has launched a new podcast with Dave Lankes, Director of the University of South Carolina iSchool. "Libraries Lead the New Normal" is a new podcast hosted by Mike Eisenberg (Dean & Professor Emeritus, Information School, Univ of Washington) &...

The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has selected Chirag Shah as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the new ASIS&T publication, Information Matters. The purpose of this new publication is to regularly communicate the latest trends...

Katie Davis, Alexis Hiniker, and Molly Adrian (UW Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences), along with colleagues from University College London and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), were awarded a UW Global Innovation Fund (GIF) grant of $8,862 for Setting an International, Cross-Disciplinary...

Ricardo Gomez was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship for his sabbatical work with indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon (2021-22). For the period of 2010 – 2020, Jacob O. Wobbrock was deemed the “Most Influential Scholar in Human-Computer Interaction” by AMiner, the...

Nicole S. Kuhn has been awarded the 2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Ford Foundation 2021 Predoctoral Fellowship. These fellowships will support her dissertation work exploring how Indigenous communities are using social media to create and share culturally...

Michelle H. Martin has been awarded funding from the first UW Black Opportunity Fund awards. With those funds, Katya Yefimova will serve as Research Associate with Camp Read-a-Rama in summer 2021, collecting data on both children’s programs and on trainings for teachers, librarians and others who...

Tanu Mitra received a Google Research Scholar Program award of $60,000 for Supporting Scalable Value-Sensitive Fact-Checking through Human-AI Intelligence.Anastasia Schaadhardt has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Her proposal was to address the...

Chirag Shah: was interviewed for a Seattle Times article titled, “In the 15 years since its launch, Amazon Web Services transformed how companies do business.” wrote an article for The Conversation titled, “It’s not just a social media problem – how search engines...

Katie Davis was an invited speaker for the Ask the Experts Virtual Workshop Series hosted by Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development. The webinar was attended by over 600 people and focused on the topic: All in the Family: A Conversation about Media Rules, Parental...

Megan Finn, Amelia Acker (University of Texas), and Ryan Ellis (Northeastern University) received a $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and the Open Collective Foundation for the COVID Data Infrastructure Builders Project. Of the total amount, $42,823 will come to the iSchool. The new project...

Annie Searle was interviewed by Richard Levick last month for his podcast In House Warrior, running on all the major channels, that the Corporate Counsel Business Journal distributed to their 30,000 general counsel readers: ”In House Warrior: The Risk Detective Annie Searle, Professor, Author and...