Michelle Martin, Liz Mills and Katie Campana have been awarded a $49,797 IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries. Their proposal titled, Project LOCAL: Library Outreach as a Community Anchor in Learning, will reach families with children under the age of twelve in underserved communities not currently using libraries. ... Jessica Hullman, with Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., was awarded a $69,789 grant by the US Department of Defense. Their research will explore designing tools for complex scientific knowledge visualization. ... Negin Dahya will give a talk at the University of California, Irvine, Department of Informatics Department Seminars next year. Along with W.E. King, she had an acceptance to the Annual Meeting of 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science), for their paper titled, Feminist Politics of Belonging: Participatory Culture and Youth Digital Video Production. The meeting will take place from August 30th-September 2nd in Boston, Massachusetts. She will also serve as keynote speaker at the 2017 Annual Social Justice Research Symposium: Child and Youth Engagement, Civic Literacies, and Digital Ecologies. The Research Symposium will be hosted by the Social Justice Research Institute at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario October 10th-11th. ... Ivette Bayo Urban describes her work as a Latina mentor for women in the article, A Beautiful Learning Community. This appears in the forthcoming Viewpoint (UW Alumni) Magazine (Spring 2017) in its feature, Magnificent Mentors. She facilitated the Coming to a Digital Bill of Rights Workshop at the Learning to See Systems—Graduate STS Workshop at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. The conference took place March 10th to 11th in Urbana, Illinois. She gave a talk titled, Digital Ethical Principles: Wellness without Barriers at the Shepard Symposium on Social Justice at the University of Wyoming. The conference took place April 5th to 8th in Laramie, Wyoming. Along with Stephanie Torres, she facilitated a workshop at Step Up: Understanding and Implementing Racial Equity sponsored by Leadership Snohomish County titled, Social Justice Education Around Technology: Critical Conversations. The conference took place at the Lynnwood, WA Convention Center. And finally, she had a book chapter accepted titled, Enacting Vulnerabilities: Intersectional Feminist Pedagogies in Practice. ... Susan Hildreth participated in a podcast on Circulating Ideas, which facilitates conversations about innovation in libraries and is supported by the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science. In Podcast 107: Susan Hildreth, she talks about her career that includes her current role as our Professor of Practice.
