Jessica Hullman received an Early Career Researcher Award from the National Academy of Science’s Sackler Colloquium that will sponsor her travel to upcoming NAS events on science communication.
Annie Searle was featured in the August 2017 issue of The Connector in an article titled, Interview with Annie Searle—Risk Update.
Jaime Snyder, along with Annuska Zolyomi and Anushree Shukla received a best paper nomination for their ASSETS paper titled, Technology-Mediated Sight: A Case Study of Early Adopters of a Low Vision Assistive Technology. In the paper, they introduced the concept of “multiplicities of vision” to describe the social and emotional aspects of technology-mediated sight.
Jaime Snyder just returned from the Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) Leadership Retreat in Charleston, SC. Jaime was honored to be one of about 40 researchers representing HCI, CSCW, STS, social computing, computer science, information science and information systems invited to map the future of CSST.
Jevin West, Kate Stovel, and Lanu Kim had a paper presentation accepted at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Conference. Their paper and presentation is titled, Echo Chambers in Science? The 2017 Annual Meeting and conference will take place August 12-15 in Montreal, Quebec.
MLIS students Ashley Farley and Bree Norlander, along with Jevin West, were co-authors on an article titled, The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. The article is available on PeerJ PrePrint and covered by several outlets, including Nature News.
Jevin West and DataLab students: Lavi Aulck (Ph.D.), Rohan Aras, Lysia Li, Coulter L-Heureux, and Peter Lu (all Informatics students) had a paper accepted to the KDD 2017 Conference (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining): Workshop on Advancing Education with Data. The paper is titled, STEM-ming the Tide: Predicting STEM attrition using student transcript data.
DataLab Ph.D. students Poshen Lee and Sean Yang, along with Bill Howe and Jevin West had a paper accepted to ICDAR 2017 (the 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition). Their paper is titled, PhyloParser: A Hybrid Algorithm for Extracting Phylogenies from Dendrograms. The conference will take place November 9-15 in Kyoto, Japan.