Li Zeng successfully defended her General Exam on March 8th! Congratulations to Li whose area of focus is the intersection between social media studies and machine learning in the growing field of computational social science. Thanks also to her supervisory committee: Emma Spiro (Chair), Josh Blumenstock, Robert Mason, and Gary Hsieh (GSR). ... Ada S. Kim has fantastic publishing news to report: Along with Katie Davis, she had a paper accepted to the Journal of Children and Media titled, Tweens’ perspectives on their parents’ media-related attitudes and rules: An exploratory study in the US; and along with Andy Ko, she delivered her first academic talk at SIGCSE 2017 Seattle titled, A Pedagogical Analysis of Online Coding Tutorials. The meeting theme is Inspire, Innovate, Improve! and takes place March 8 to 11 at the Washington State Convention Center. ... Frank Branch, Theresa Arias, Jolene Kannah, Rebekah Phillips, Travis Windleharth, and Jin Ha Lee had another paper accepted to JASIST (Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology) titled, Representing Transmedia Fictional Worlds through Ontology. ... Bill Howe attended an invited workshop hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign called Imagining Tomorrow's University. He talked about open science, open scholarship, open data, and reproducibility. Funding for the workshop was provided by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. ... The feature of Susan Hildreth now appears in the Spring issue of Alki, the Washington Library Association Journal, in the article: Local Stage, Global Impact: Susan Hildreth and the Future of Public Libraries.