“He was my best friend.” “He was super involved.” “We would just chat about anything.” Amazingly, when Scott Barker’s former students and TAs talk about the longtime IT director and teaching professor, they all seem...
With more than 20 million albums sold, a string of No. 1 hits and a dedicated fanbase known as “ARMY,” BTS is a worldwide phenomenon. To Jin Ha Lee, it’s also an important area for research. Lee, an associate professor at the...
Can machines be sexist? Researcher Aylin Caliskan found out the answer when she entered “O bir profesör, O bir öğretmen” into Google Translate on her computer. “O” is a gender-neutral pronoun in Turkish; it can mean she, he or...
Tanu Mitra recently notched a pair of awards for young researchers — one of them a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, and the other a career honor from a leading conference on social media research. Mitra, an assistant...
Read-a-Rama is going national this summer with a pair of online camps designed to engage children with books and spark a love of reading. Led by Michelle H. Martin, the Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services at the...
For Maina Gachugu, his path to the iSchool was winding, but it began with his unshakable belief in the importance of an education. Inspired by his father’s devotion to learning, Gachugu always knew he would go to college, but figuring...
Chatting with a robot is now part of many families’ daily lives, thanks to conversational agents such as Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa. Recent research has shown that children are often delighted to find that they can ask Alexa to play their favorite songs or call Grandma. But does...
Mark Mader loves seeing people have “unlock moments” — when a lightbulb goes on and they realize they’re capable of more than they thought possible. The Smartsheet president and CEO hopes to inspire those moments with the establishment of a new scholarship at the University of Washington...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $3 million collaborative grant to a team led by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) and supported by Stanford University to study ways to apply collaborative, rapid-response research to mitigate online...
Our dear friend and colleague Scott Barker, Associate Teaching Professor and Director of iSchool IT, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, July 23, 2021. For over 20 years, Scott has been an integral part of the iSchool community and we are incredibly fortunate to have had the privilege of working with...
University of Washington Master of Library and Information Science students Truc Ho and Kaitlin Srader are among those awarded 2021-22 ALA Spectrum Scholarships, the American Library Association announced. Ho, a second-year residential student living in Seattle, focused on critical race theory, memory...
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