Michael Fosmire was a dedicated UW graduate student in physics when he first became interested in science librarianship. He knew little about it, although he spent long hours in the old physics library poring over academic papers. He began...
Nicola Andrews believes education should be more accessible — and she’s working toward that goal in her academic and professional work. Andrews, the recipient of the Information School’s 2023 Graduate of the Last Decade Alumni...
Over the past six years as a senior research scientist with the iSchool's Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA), Jason Young has done expansive and eclectic work. A short list of projects includes supporting Indigenous communities in...
Many people believe that technology is just a tool, neither good nor bad. Damian Hodel isn’t one of those people. “That's an old but wrong story that technology is neutral,” said Hodel, a second-year Ph.D. student at the...
Author and storyteller Nic Stone told the audience for this year’s Spencer G. Shaw Endowed Lecture how the stories we read shape the way we see the world, reminding us that we all have our own authentic story to share. “Everything...
How do you get people to contribute their stories to a community archive when the concept itself can be confusing? That’s one of the challenges a UW Information School team faced while working with staff from Tacoma Public Library to...
Information School Professor Chirag Shah is the recipient of this year’s ASIS&T SIG USE Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Research Award, which recognizes one scholar each year for their body of work in the field.Shah’s work in intelligent information access systems focuses...
As a child, Aditya Ramani dreamed of a career in medicine. But when he had to dissect a pig in his 10th-grade science class, he learned he didn’t have the stomach for some aspects of the medical field.“After having to do the dissection, I remember thinking, ‘I can’t be a doctor. I need to find a...
Catherine McMullen, MLIS ‘08, can tell you that librarianship and public office have a lot in common. After more than a decade working for public libraries, last year McMullen campaigned for the role of clerk of Clackamas County, just south of Portland, Oregon. “It was a long journey, but a lot...
During “Generative Misinformation,” an Oct. 27 talk at Town Hall Seattle sponsored by the University of Washington Graduate School’s Office of Public Lectures, iSchool associate professor and Center for an Informed Public co-founder Jevin West discussed how generative artificial intelligence is making...
Screen readers, which convert digital text to audio, can make computers more accessible to many disabled users — including those who are blind, low vision or dyslexic. Yet slideshow software, such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides, isn’t designed to make screen reader output coherent. Such...
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