Author and illustrator Brian Selznick turned the Information School’s 2020 Spencer G. Shaw Endowed Lecture into an engaging conversation, even though he couldn’t speak to people face-to-face. Selznick spoke over video on Oct. 29,...
It was 2015, and the timing was right. The iSchool’s Master of Science in Information Management program needed an infusion of energy, and Hala Annabi and Sean McGann were ready for a challenge. Harry Bruce, then the iSchool dean,...
Universities expect graduate students to engage in scholarly research. Undergraduates, not so much. Jill McKinstry, champion of rigorous undergraduate learning, set out to change that on the University of Washington campus....
When COVID-19 required people to adapt quickly, Mandi Harris was ready. After her library canceled in-person events, it took her just a day to shift programs online. Harris, the youth services supervisor at the Coeur d’Alene Public...
Miranda Belarde-Lewis probably was always destined to study art. On her father’s side, she is Zuni Pueblo, a tribe in the Southwest U.S. with a rich aesthetic tradition and love of adornment. “If there's something that we could...
Jevin West, iSchool Associate Professor and Director of the UW Center for an Informed Public, shares an update about the critical role of information professionals in ensuring fair and equitable participation in the 2020 U.S. elections and...
With COVID-19 cases spiking again across the United States, many states are issuing new curfews and lockdowns that look similar to the first stay-at-home orders issued in March. These announcements are coming right in time for the winter holiday season, when Americans normally gather with the...
We’ve just been through a contentious election season in a difficult year, full of hardship for far too many people. When we emerge from our current crises, we have to envision a better future — and how our work can help take us there. COVID-19 and the social unrest of 2020 have underscored the...
UW Information School faculty member Cindy Aden was recently honored by the Federal Communications Commission for her work to bridge the digital divide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Aden is among the inaugural recipients of the Digital Opportunity Equity Recognition (DOER) awards. She was...
Prerna Juneja, a Ph.D. student at the Information School, recently won a fellowship from the Social Science Research Council to support her studies on the role of algorithms in spreading misinformation. The Social Data Research and Dissertation Fellowship program, offered by the Social Data...
The University of Washington Information School is well-represented at this year’s Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, with several faculty members and Ph.D. students contributing papers and posters and participating in workshops and panel discussions. The...
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