Wes E. King received a Faculty Scholar Award of $2,000 from the Carl G. Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law at Duquesne University. The goal of this program is to cultivate a research cohort, provide peer support, and to generate new and innovative research...

Melanie Walsh and co-PIs Anna Preus, Golden Owens, and Geoffrey Turnovsky received a Collaborative Project Award of $14,096 from the Simpson Center for the Humanities for their project titled “AI, Creativity, and the Humanities.” Nassim Parvin and co-authors Sylvia Janicki and...

Lucy Lu Wang and Co-PIs Heather Feldner and Lynn Worobey were awarded an NIH R01 full award of $2.18 Million, with $453,000 going to the iSchool, for their proposal “Determining the relationships between provider bias, experiences of ableism, and health outcomes for people with mobility...

Hala Annabi and co-PIs Jennifer Mankoff, Scott Bellman, and Elizabeth Follmer were awarded $932,314 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Workplace Equity for Persons with Disabilities in STEM and STEM Education program for the project titled “Success Enablers that...

Sandy Littletree and co-author Charlene Krise’s paper titled “The Squaxin Island Museum Library and Research Center: A Report from the Field of Tribal Libraries and Museums” was published in International Journal of Librarianship. Charlene Krise is an enrolled tribal member of the...

Marika Cifor and co-PIs Temi Odumosu and Stacey Wedlake were awarded an $850,000 Mellon Foundation grant for “Faculty Organizing for Community Archives (FOCAS) Internship & Resource Development Project.” This is part of a collaborative grant with other institutions that have MLIS...

Temi Odumosu was a panelist and collaborator on a panel titled “Presence, Protest, and Possibility: AfroNordic Freedom Dreams: A Roundtable with the AfroNordic Feminisms Working Group” at the Society for Advancement of Scandinavian Studies Conference (SASS 2024). Temi Odumosu led...

Amy Ko was awarded two $20,000 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) awards for her NSF-funded projects titled “Collaborative Research: An Equitable, Justice-Focused Ecosystem for Pacific Northwest Secondary CS Teaching” and “Developing Authentic and Fair Computer Science...

Chirag Shah was awarded an NSF/CISE/IIS grant for $260,0047 for his project titled “A DREAM Proactive Conversational System,” a collaborative with Grace Hui Yang at Georgetown University. Nassim Parvin and co-collaborators Sylvia Janicki and Noura Howell’s paper “Crip Reflections...

Katie Davis and co-PIs Jason Yip, Alex Bowers, Vincent Cho, and Suleman Shahid were awarded a $75,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation for their project “Developing a Community-Based Model for Equitable AI Practices in Education Settings.” Katie Davis’s book Technology’s Child:...

Melanie Walsh gave a keynote titled “What ChatGPT Poetry Can Teach Us About AI and Language” at the Alliance Française event Disruptive Innovation: A.I., Language, Arts, and Education.  Katherine Cross, PhD Student, is publishing a book in June, titled Log Off: Why...

Aylin Caliskan was awarded an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant of $603,342 for her project titled “The Impact of Associations and Biases in Generative AI on Society.” Aylin Caliskan and co-authors Tessa Elizabeth Sadie Charlesworth, Kshitish Ghate, and Mahzarin Banaji...

Anind Dey and co-collaborators Brian D. Ziebart, Andrew Maas,  and J. Andrew Bagnell recieved the 2024 AAAI Classic Paper Award, a 15-year impact award recognizing their paper “Maximum entropy inverse reinforcement learning,” which was published in Proceedings of the 23rd...

Heather Whiteman was awarded $2,000 for the Global Innovation Fund Teaching Award. Her first award in 2022 led to case studies, examples, and student projects based in Latin America. This year’s award focuses on partnering with experts from South Korea and Australia to incorporate additional...

Jamie Snyder and Benjamin Buck (UW, Department of Psychology) were awarded $50,000 by the NIH through the Department of Psychology for their pilot program “User-centered design of a single-module digital mental health intervention for college students at risk for psychosis.”Alexis...