Jason Yip made FINALIST for the UW Distinguished Teaching Award 2017. Way to go, Professor Yip! He also had a workshop accepted to the 2017 IDC (16th Interaction Design and Children Conference), to be held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California from June 27^th to 30^th. His is the Workshop on Equity & Inclusivity at IDC. ... John Marino successfully defended his dissertation, The Nature and Impact of Task Definition: Information Problem Categorization During Task Definition Within the Information Problem-Solving Process. John has also accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the University of North Texas iSchool for the Fall. ... Jin Ha Lee attended the International MAGNA (Manga, ANime, and GAme) Meeting in Tokyo, Japan on March 28, 2017. ... Hyerim Cho, Marc Schmalz, Stephen Keating and Jin Ha Lee had a poster accepted to JCDL 2017 (Joint Conferences on Digital Libraries) titled, Information Needs for Anime Recommendation: Analyzing Anime Users’ Online Forum Queries. The conference will take place June 19^th to 23^rd in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Bill Howe chaired the Data Science Education Panel this week at the 2017 ICDE (IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering). The conference took place in San Diego, California. ... Helene Williams participated on the Data in the Humanities Panel at the RDAP Summit 2017 (Research Data Access and Preservation) this week in Seattle. She represented the LIS faculty/practitioner viewpoint, talking about where, and in what formats, digital humanities scholars find their data.