Nic Weber, Sandra Gesing (University of Illinois at Chicago), Jeffrey C Carver (University of Alabama), Karthik Ram (Regents of the University of California, Berkeley), and Daniel S Katz (Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign) received a National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER grant of $247,596 for Characterizing Research Software from NSF Awards.
Nic Weber received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) Program grant of $317,332 for Open-Source Hardware Assembly, Repair, and Sustainability.
Jason Yip, Jin Ha Lee, and Chris Coward received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG-L) Program grant of $249,917 for Supporting the Development of Digital Playful Exploratory Resources to Combat Mis/disinformation through Online Intergenerational Co-design.
Jin Ha Lee and Elin Bjorling (HCDE), in partnership with Seattle Public Library, received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG-L) Program grant of $249,743 for Creating Space for Teen Mental Health. Of the total amount, 23,476 will come to the iSchool.
Marika Cifor received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) Program grant of $318,989 for Valuing Library and Archives Labor: Assessing Internship and Fellowship Implications for the Library and Archives Community,
Hala Annabi and Michelle Martin received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) Program grant of $491,500 for Empowering Neurodivergent Librarians to Lead Inclusion in Libraries.
Melanie Walsh is part of a project led by Richard Marciano at Maryland that just received a two-year $400K Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) Program grant: Launch of the IMLS-funded TALENT Network.
Aylin Caliskan presented a comprehensive analysis of gender bias in machine language representations and provided direct empirical evidence of a masculine default in the everyday language of the English-speaking world at the Santa Fe Institute's conference on "Language as a Window into Mind and Society."
Robert Wolfe presented their work, co-authored with Dr. Mahzarin R. Banaji, on how the state-of-the-art multi-modal language-vision AI model used by millions has learned the odious one-drop rule of American racial hierarchy at the PhD student data blitz.
Robert Wolfe also virtually attended the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) to present their paper "Contrastive Visual Semantic Pretraining Magnifies the Semantics of Natural Language Representations" at ACL 2022.