Melanie Walsh’s free online programming textbook, Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Python, was voted the "Best Digital Humanities Training Material" of 2021 by the Digital Humanities Awards.

Melanie Walsh also gave her first keynote speech, "Data as Culture," at the Women in Data Science Conference at the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California.

Chirag Shah gave an invited talk at the Northeast chapter of ASIS&T (NEASIS&T)’s Summit on "With Great Power: AI and Equity": "Algorithmic Information Access is the New Smoking.”

Hans Jochen Scholl gave a research talk during the session on IT in Disaster Risk Reduction (ITDRR) within the 2022 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum, organized and held by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland. The title of the talk was "Identifying Topical Directions in the Current Body of Knowledge in ITDRR: The Role of the Curated Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL)."

Batya Friedman presented remarks at the NIST Bias in Artificial Intelligence Workshop in which she put forward human dignity and materiality as two criteria for integrating into standards and evaluating the quality of systems that we build.

Sarah Nguyen and Taylor Agajanian were featured in a CNET article spotlighting graduate students studying misinformation: “The Unsung Force Digging Through Misinformation.”