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August 6, 2021

Bill Howe has been awarded a $200,000 grant by Cisco Systems, Inc. for Ethical AI in the Public Sector: Towards A Semi-Synthetic Data Fabric for AI Evaluation.

Chris Coward and Jin Ha Lee have been awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG-L) grant of $249,691 for Misinformation Escape Room: Supporting Libraries as Hubs for Misinformation Education.

Nic Weber and colleagues from Syracuse University have been awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG-L) grant of $347,380 for Curating QDAS Research Objects for Exchange and Reuse. Of the total award, $42,451 will come to the iSchool.

Jason Young, Michelle Koutnik (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies), and Nadine Fabbi (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) planning grant of $300,000 for Co-Designing Civic Education for the Circumpolar North. Of the total award, $263,000 will come to the iSchool.

Kurtis Heimerl, Jason Young, Emma Slager, and Franziska Roesner have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Smart & Connected Community (S&CC) program grant of $1.5M for Innovations for Community-Held Infrastructure. Of the total award, $52,168 will come to the iSchool.

Jason Young, Marika Cifor, and Chris Jowaisas have been awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG-L) grant of $56,42 for The Community Archives Center for Tacoma.

The UW iSchool will be participating in Project Spectrum, an IMLS grant awarded to the American Library Association (ALA) to build a cross-university cohort of 8-10 racially and ethnically diverse doctoral students focused on advancing racial equity and social justice in the LIS curriculum.

Chirag Shah was elected to be the Chair of the newly formed ASIS&T Special Interest Group (SIG) AI.

Bill Howe and the EquiTensors project team received the July 2021 "Innovation of the Month" award from the MetroLab Network.

Jacob O. Wobbrock had the following papers accepted for publication:

  • Vatavu, R.-D. and Wobbrock, J.O. (TBD). “Clarifying agreement calculations and analysis for end-user elicitation studies.” ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). To appear.
  • Kong, Judy, Zhong, M., Fogarty, J. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). “New metrics for understanding touch by people with and without limited fine motor function.” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21). Virtual Event (October 18-22, 2021). New York: ACM Press. To appear.