Hala Annabi received a Population Health Initiative research grant from the UW Population Health Initiative for her project “Prepare for the IT Workplace Program (PREP for IT).” Along with her co-PI, Jill Locke from Speech and Hearing Sciences, and co-I Gary Stobbe from Neurology, the team will receive $50,000 for this work. Hala received one of the five awards (8 percent acceptance rate) made in this first round of the new grant initiative.

Ada Kim has exciting news to report! She is the first author on a paper co-authored with Hala Annabi and accepted to HICSS 2018. Their paper is titled, Where Affinity Meets Practice: Emerging Communities of Practice to Meet the Needs of Korean IT Professionals. And she’ll present at Ubicomp 2017 in the Workshop on New Frontier of Quantified Self 3. Her paper is titled, Quantified Self Meets Perceptual Learning: How to Brew a Cup of Tea. The paper analyzes recently released tea apps, suggests QS design sketches that support users’ learning, and highlights challenges and future work. The workshop will be held next week in Maui, Hawaii.

Helene Williams presented a poster at DH2017, the premiere annual conference of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) . The theme of DH2017 was “Access/Accès”. Helene’s poster was titled, Digital Humanities Pedagogy in the University of Washington iSchool MLIS Program: A Curricular Balance of Multidisciplinary Expertise.

Susan Hildreth and Joe Tennis, along with a student (soon to be identified), will participate in the PLA 2018 Conference to be held in Philadelphia, PA, from March 20-24, 2018. Their session will be titled, Ensuring the Future of Libraries: Connecting the Academy and the Profession.