Norah Abokhodair successfully defended her dissertation, titled Transnational Saudi Arabian Youth and Facebook: Enacting Privacy and Identity. Her research sought to understand how transnationals conceptualize and enact privacy and self-presentation during back-and-forth movement from Saudi Arabia to the United States. Resisting the culturally hegemonic form of privacy, her study provided culturally-inclusive design insights from an understudied user group to address some of the problematic privacy models in social media design. Congratulations, Dr. Abokhodair! Thanks also to her committee, including David Hendry (Chair), David McDonald (GSR), Katie Davis, and Elizabeth Churchill (Google).

Katie Davis has been awarded a grant supplement of $125,522 from the National Science Foundation to further her work on her CAREER grant, Digital Badges for STEM Education. ... Katie Davis and Cecilia Aragon (HCDE) recently signed a book contract with MIT Press. Scheduled for publication in early 2019, the book's working title is, The Secret Garden: How Fanfiction and New Forms of Mentoring Engage Youth as Writers. ... Jessica Hullman was awarded an Honorable Mention for one of her IEEE InfoVis 2017 papers, one of only 3 awards given to papers at InfoVis. The paper is titled, Keeping Multiple Views Consistent: Constraints, Validations and Exceptions in Visualization Authoring.