The iSchool had a great showing at this year's NEXT Library Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, with three interactive workshops:   · Lights, Camera, Community!  Using video to support community storytelling  Presented by: Jason Young, Cindy Aden, Chris Jowaisas, and Stacey...

Yim Register (PhD Student) received a national iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award for their project titled “The Future of AI Can Be Kind: Strategies for Embedded Ethics in AI Education.”  Sarah Nguyen (PhD Student) received the 2025 Center for an Informed Public (CIP) Robert...

Sandy Littletree and iSchool alumni Nicky Andrews, were recognized by the Library Journal as Change Agents in their 2025 Movers and Shakers, which represents the best of the creative, inspiring, visionary, and committed individuals who are advancing the library field.  Bingbing Wen (PhD...

The iSchool was well represented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025): Awards · Kate Starbird was recognized as a member of the SIGCHI Academy, which recognizes leaders who have shaped the field of human-computer interaction. · Alexis Hiniker...

Marika Cifor received a Smithsonian Institution Senior Fellowship for a book project titled “The Treatment Underground: Buyer’s Clubs, Data Activism, and the Politics of Illness from AIDS to COVID-19.” Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna’s book titled The AI Con: How to Fight Big...

Hans Jochen Scholl was recognized as one of the Lifetime Highly Ranked Scholars, a lifetime recognition for digital government research (DGR) contributions by ScholarGPS. Nassim Parvin’s co-edited volume with Neda Atanasoski, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, has an...

iSchool was well-represented at the 2025 iConference, with the following researchers participating: · Itza Carbajal (PhD student) in the presentation titled “Envisioning Critical Digital Futures for Archives” at the workshop on Envisioning Critical Digital Futures for Archives.” ·...

Ben Lee gave a keynote titled “AI and Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges for Discoverability” at the Interactive AI Fair held at Temple University. Chris Coward and Co-PIs Luca Moltmann, Jin Ha Lee, Maja Drobne, Agnieszka Koszowska, and Koen Vandendriessche...

Alexis Hiniker received the 2025 ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGCHI) Societal Impact Award.  Aylin Caliskan and co-authors Joanna J. Bryson and Arvind Narayanan received 2025 Frontiers of Science Award awarded by the International Congress of Basic...

Jin Ha Lee has been selected as a 2024-2026 Ewha Global Fellow. This fellowship is awarded to distinguished scholars who actively collaborate with Ewha faculty in research and education. Ewha Womans University, one of the world’s largest women’s educational institutions, is in South Korea....

Ben Lee and co-authors Thomas Smits, Bethany Warner, and Paul Fyfe’s paper titled “A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842-1890" has been accepted to the Journal of Open Humanities. Amelia Dogan (PhD Student) and Catherine D’Ignazio’s paper “Data...

Melanie Walsh gave a Keynote titled “Beyond the Hype: Charting a Path for AI in Humanities Research,” at the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities 2025 International Conference on AI & the Digital Humanities (HKADH2025).  Mike Teodorescu and co-authors Nicholas Pairolero,...

Chirag Shah received an award for “Pioneering Leadership in Trustworthy AI,” at the IEEE New Era World Leaders AI Summit. Katie Davis gave a keynote titled “Five Provocations for AI and the Future of Education” at Shaping the Future: Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on Youth...

Batya Friedman received the Future of Life Award from the Future of Life Institute for her pioneering work in Value Sensitive Design (VSD). The award, which includes a $50,000 prize, honors researchers who have integrated ethics and safety into computing and AI, emphasizing the importance of...

Wanda Pratt and Akansha Vaswani-Bye were awarded $53,523 from the UW Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions for their project titled “Partnering with Patients to Re-envision Psychiatric Hospitalization and Discharge.”  Mike Teodorescu was recognized as one of the Top 100 Romanians of...