Wan-Chen Lee successfully passed her General Exam on February 13! Congratulations to Wan-Chen who answered questions related to classification theory, cultural warrant, and field sites as understood in ethnographic work.  Thanks also go to her supervisory committee: Carole Palmer, Nic Weber, Sarah McCoy (GSR). ... Mike Katell successfully passed his General Exam this week! Congratulations to Mike who skillfully answered difficult questions related to privacy, social privilege, and reputation.  Thanks also go to his supervisory committee: Batya Friedman, Negin Dahya, and Ryan Calo (GSR). ... Bill Howe received $500k (half of the total $1 million) from Microsoft for the Data Science for Social Good research with the City of Seattle of Seattle and the City of Vancouver, as well as other nationwide groups. See the article featured on the News & Events section of our website titled, iSchool takes lead role in UW-UBC urban data partnership. ... Jinha Lee, Travis Windleharth, Jason Yip, and Marc Schmalz had a paper not only accepted to iConference 2017, but named one of five finalists for the Most Interesting Preliminary Results Paper Award! Their preliminary results research paper is titled, Impact of Location-based Augmented Reality Games on People’s Information Behavior: A Case Study of Pokémon GO. The overall winner will be announced at the conference in March. ...Li Zeng and Emma Spiro also had a paper accepted to iConference 2017 and made the top 5 finalists list for Best Completed Research Paper! Their paper is titled, Let’s Workout! Exploring Social Exercise in an Online Fitness Community. The overall winner will also be announced at the conference.