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,...

Ricardo Gomez and collaborators have published the following papers: “Humanitarian organizations' information practices: Procedures and privacy concerns for serving the undocumented” was co-authored by Sara Vannini, Diane Lopez, Sigifredo Mora, Julia Clare Morrison, Julee Tanner, Lena...

J. Elizabeth Mills, Kathleen Campana, and Michelle H. Martin published a white paper with the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) titled, "Engage, Cultivate, Provide, and Assess: An Outreach Model for Serving All Children and Families." This white paper is based on the IMLS-funded...

Stacey Wedlake participated in a webinar panel for the Office of Family Assistance. The webinar, titled “Adult Literacy and Education: Strategies to Alleviate the Literacy Gap,” provided an overview of the current state of adult literacy and education in the United States and explored how...

Katie Davis had an article published in The Library Quarterly, “Using Technology to Support Equity and Inclusion in Youth Library Programming: Current Practices and Future Opportunities.” The article was co-authored by Saba Kawas and colleagues from the University of Maryland. It has been...

Joseph T. Tennis and other members of OntōGroup had the following papers accepted to the 2020 Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization in Alborg, Denmark: Claire McDonald: “Call us by our name(s): Conflicting representations of the transgender community in...

Co-directors Batya Friedman, Ryan Calo, and Yoshi Kohno received a gift of $50K from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to continue their innovative work with the UW Tech Policy Lab. The UW Tech Policy Lab aims to bridge the gap between policymakers and technologists in the service of wiser,...

Jevin West gave an invited lecture for the Indiana University Libraries to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their Herman B Wells Library. The title of his talk was “The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication.” Hans Jochen Scholl had a paper titled, “Mapping Potential Impact Areas...

Marika Cifor presented a paper at the Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic conference at University of California San Francisco on Oct. 5. Her paper is titled, “Archive as Cure: The Promises of Visual AIDS Activist Archiving.” Chirag Shah and Ruoyuan Gao presented a paper...