Michelle Martin and co-author Mandi Harris (PhD Student)’s paper titled “Home is a Sound: Relationships with the Land in African American and Native American Picture Books,” was accepted to Summer School 2026: Indigenous Voices in Children’s Literature. Michelle...

Chirag Shah gave a keynote titled “Beyond the Personalization-Privacy Pareto: Can AI Agents Break the Tradeoff?” at the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2026. Ben Lee and co-authors Rob Ehrenreich, Todd Presner, Michael Haley Goldman,...

Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student) was awarded $10,000 in Google Gemini credits to support his research on studying AI's impact on science. Chirag Shah gave a keynote titled “The Age of AI Agents: Redefining Interaction, Intelligence, and Industry” at TechArena 2026.  Stacey...

Kate Starbird was named as one of the 2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellows. ACM Fellows are selected by their peers for achieving remarkable results through their technical innovations and/or service to the field.  Chirag...

Melanie Walsh and co-collaborators Sylvia Fernandez, Miriam Posner, Anna Preus, and Amardeep Singh’s project titled “Responsible Datasets in Context,” funded by a Mozilla Responsible Computing Challenge Award, received a Digital Project Award...

Tracie Hall gave a keynote titled “On Information Islands: The Rise of Co-Intelligence, the Necessity of Civic Fluency and the Decline of Human Literacy,” at the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB) Conference. Tracie and Cindy Aden co-led a fireside...

Hala Annabi received a $15,000,000 grant from the Canopy Neurodiversity Foundation to support the launch of the UW Institute for Neurodiversity and Employment.  Ben Lee received a $10,000 grant from the American Institute of Physics for his project...

Isaac Slaughter and co-authors Axel Peytavin, Johan Ugander, and Martin Saveski’s paper titled “Community Notes Reduce Engagement with and Diffusion of False Information Online” was published in PNAS.  Nassim Parvin and...

Tanu Mitra was awarded a $649,971 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation for her project titled “Understanding the Effects of Large Language Models on Online Community Information Work.”  Marika Cifor and co-author Anna Lauren Hoffman’s paper...

Aylin Caliskan was recognized as a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, awarded by the Center for Technology Innovation (CTI) at the Brookings Institution.  Heather Whiteman was invited by the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala to give a keynote talk titled "Human...

Joe Janes podcast titled Documents That Changed the World released a new episode titled “Negro Motorist Green Book, 1936.”  Several iSchool researchers are recipients of the Community Engaged Computing Initiative (CECI) funding:  Jason Young received $40,000 for...

Eva Maxfield Brown (PhD Student), David Farr (PhD Student), and Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student) were selected as Early-Career Fellows by the US Research Software Sustainability Institute (URSSI), receiving $25K in research funding.  Neel Gupta (PhD Student) and co-authors David...

Temi Odumosu and co-author David Schwittek’s paper titled “Annotating The New Union Club: A Case Study on Critical Praxis for Digital Art Histories,” was published in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide.   Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student) and co-authors Shehryar Subhani and...

Preetam Dammu (PhD Student) and co-authors Himanshu Naidu (MSIM Alumnus) and Chirag Shah’s paper titled “Dynamic-KGQA: A Scalable Framework for Generating Adaptive Question Answering Datasets” was accepted to the International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information...

Chirag Shah was elected to the 2025 Class of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Academy, which recognizes individuals who have made significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval (IR).   Amelia Dogan...