Michelle H. Martin and Nadia Mansour published an article in the online journal Barnboken titled, “What Can Danish Multicultural Children’s Literature and African American Children’s Literature Learn from Each Other?: Literary Histories in Dialogue.” Barnboken is an international open...

J. Elizabeth Mills has been awarded a Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2020. The purpose of this fellowship is to support Ph.D. candidates in the final stages of writing their dissertations. Congratulations, Liz! Katie Davis and Cecilia Aragon had a...

Rolf Hapel had an article published in the peer reviewed Public Library Quarterly (PLQ) titled, “Building A Contemporary Public Library Through Community Engagement: A Personal Journey.” The article discusses how a broad understanding of community engagement has influenced the conception,...

Ricardo Gomez: published a book with Latino Center for Health titled, Latinx Experience in Academia: Charting the paths of Latinx faculty at the University of Washington. His book features interviews with 30 Latinx faculty at UW who are being honored for their accomplishments in 2020....

Batya Friedman, Ryan Calo, and Tadayoshi Kohno with Nick Logler received a $300K gift from the Omidyar Network to the UW Tech Policy Lab to support a new initiative on food resilience in the time of Covid-19 as well as general UW Tech Policy Lab activities. Stephanie Ballard, Elias Greendorfer, and...

Nic Weber was named one of Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers of 2020 for his work as technical director of the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR). Jaime Snyder received an Honorable Mention Award at DIS 2020 (Designing Interactive Systems) for her paper, “Visualizing Personal Rhythms: A...

Alexis Hiniker was quoted in a UW News article titled, “‘I saw you were online’: How online status indicators shape our behavior.” The article highlights one her CHI 2020 papers, “User Experiences with Online Status Indicators,” which was co-authored by Camille Cobb (Carnegie Mellon),...

Yim Register was interviewed by the UW Daily for an article titled, “iSchool Ph.D. teaches inclusive machine learning using personal data.” The Center for an Informed Public (CIP) hosted a livestream event in partnership with Washington State University (WSU) to address coronavirus...

Chirag Shah was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $23,815 to support his upcoming project: Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Information Exploration and Access (iSEA). Jin Ha Lee, Marc Schmalz, Stephen Keating, and Jeewon Ha received the iConference 2020 Best Short Research...

Anind Dey, Jennifer Mankoff (UW CSE), Paula Nurius (UW School of Social Work), and Eve Riskin (UW ECE) were awarded a Population Health Initiative pilot research grant of $50,000 for their project “Analysis to Translation: Accelerating and Tailoring Responses to Student Mental Health.” Their...

Anna Lauren Hoffmann: Gave an invited talk as part of the Critical Media + Digital Studies Workshop at Columbia University. Her talk was tilted “The Discursive Bases of Data Violence.” Presented “Data Violence, or: How the Push for Fair and Inclusive Tech Undermines the Pursuit of...

Marika Cifor spent the week in Copenhagen at the invitation of the University of Copenhagen Uncertain Archives Research Group. During the visit, she presented and led a seminar on her book in progress, Viral Cultures. She also gave an invited talk, "Data Stains and Data Remains: The Epistemologies...

Marika Cifor, along with Patricia Garcia (University of Michigan) and Anita Say Chan  (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), presented the Feminist Data Manifest-NO at Data & Society for an invited Welcome Wednesday event. The Feminist Data Manifest-NO is a collective production of...

Stefania Druga: Was quoted in The Hechinger Report article, “Reframing ed tech to save teachers time and reduce workloads.” Presented (remotely) at AMLD (Applied Machine Learning Days) EPFL 2020. The title of her presentation was “Growing up with AI.” Will serve as a panelist at...

Michelle H. Martin served as a guest speaker at a UW Alumni Book Club meeting to discuss John Okada’s No-No Boy and the importance of #OwnVoices representation in contemporary literature. A recording of her talk can be found here. Anna Lauren Hoffmann was quoted in a Crosscut article titled,...