Jacob O. Wobbrock gave an invited research talk on Ability-Based Design at the University of Michigan School of Information on March 21, 2017. The talk was part of UM’s MISC speaker series. The MISC Group is a multi-departmental group patterned directly after our DUB Group. Wobbrock also gave a similar invited research talk at the Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology (LIST) (https://www.list.lu/) in Belval, Luxembourg on March 7, 2017. ... MAD Lab Ph.D. student, Martez Mott, was recently highlighted in the UW feature story Slide to Unlock about work on the Smart Touch project. A nicely produced video was also made to accompany the article. (Their CHI 2016 best paper-winning Smart Touch paper is here.) ... MAD Lab Ph.D. student, Kristen Shinohara, has recently accepted a tenure-track faculty position as an assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology! Her home department will be the Department of Information Sciences & Technologies (IST). Congratulations, Kristen! Her co-advisors, Jacob Wobbrock and Wanda Pratt, couldn’t be happier for her. ... Sonali R. Mishra had two papers accepted this week and passed her General Exam! Her committee was impressed by her mastery of the literature in HCI and health behavior change. Congratulations, Sonu! Thanks also to Wanda Pratt (co-chair), Pedja Klasnja (co-chair), Jaime Synder (member), and Julie Kientz (GSR). ... Jordan Eschler and Jaime Snyder’s abstract titled, Racial Bias in the Representation of Medical Evidence: Constructing a More Inclusive Picture of Health, was accepted to 4S! The 2017 Annual Meeting for the Society for Social Studies of Science will be held August 30th to September 2nd in Boston, Massachusetts.... Annie Searle will represent the iSchool on the Jackson School of International Studies Cybersecurity Initiative . On first round, she will join the “collaborative working group of academic experts… together with business, military and public policy makers to formulate forward thinking models for comprehensively addressing [national and global] cybersecurity challenges.” ... Tim Carlson successfully defended his doctoral dissertation! His dissertation titled, "Information Artifact Evaluation and Iterative Design: A Novel Mixed-Method Approach,” broke new ground in effective information artifact (short for IT artifact/information systems) evaluation and by devising and testing a methodology. Congratulations, Tim! Thanks also to his doctoral committee and internal reader: Hans Jochen Scholl (Chair), Hala Annabi (IR), Michael Eisenberg, Megan Finn, and Jennifer Hoffman (GSR).