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April 23, 2018

The iSchool has not just one, but two recipients of the IMLS 2018 National Leadership Grants for Libraries!

  • Jason Yip and Jin Ha Lee were awarded $353,071 for “Supporting Intergenerational Participatory Design Groups for Librarians and Youth for Design Thinking Around Digital Learning.”
  • Jin Ha Lee was awarded $254,072 for “A Conceptual Data Model and Schema for Curating Collections of Video Game Development Artifacts.”

Congratulations, Jason and Jin Ha!

In addition, Jason Yip has received the following acceptances:

  • Paper along with Caroline Pitt: “Designing to illuminate children’s scientific funds of knowledge through social media sharing” in Proceedings of 2018 ACM Interaction Design and Children.
  • Three presentations at the 2018 Annual Meeting for the American Education Research Association in New York City, NY:
    • With Kung Jin Lee:
      • “Co-Designing with librarians: A case study of Cooperative Inquiry to support learning designs.”
    • With Caroline Pitt:
      • “Designing interactive public displays for neighborhood scientizing.”  
      • “Family Science Night.” 

Anna Lauren Hoffmann spoke as part of an invited panel at OURSA, a conference that emerged as an alternative to the lack of diversity at RSA. The panel “Security Policy & Ethics for Emerging Tech” was moderated by Kara Swisher, co-founder and executive editor of recode, and included Jennifer Granick of the ACLU, Nicole Ozer of ACLU of Northern California, Ashley Tolbert of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and Rian Wanstreet from the University of Washington. Anna's talk was titled, “Amplifying Harm: Gender, Bias, and Violence in Security Research and Design.” The entire OURSA Conference Recording is now available on YouTube.

Clarita Lefthand-Begay participated in the UW-Nepal Partnerships in Health Innovation: Multi-disciplinary Collaborations to Advance Population Health Symposium hosted by the UW Department of Bioengineering and Department of Global Health. The title of her program was “Water Insecurity & Indigenous Peoples.” 

Ivette Bayo Urban was nominated for the Emerging Leaders of Snohomish County Award. Through this award the Herald Business Journal, Moss Adams, Economic Alliance Snohomish County, Puget PR, and Leadership Snohomish County seek to honor the next generation of leadership.