Katie Davis and co-PIs Jason Yip, Alex Bowers, Vincent Cho, and Suleman Shahid were awarded a $75,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation for their project “Developing a Community-Based Model for Equitable AI Practices in Education Settings.” 

Katie Davis’s book Technology’s Child: Digital Media’s Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up was a finalist for the INDIES 2023 Book of the Year Award in the Science and Technology category.  

Aylin Caliskan and co-collaborators Tessa Charlesworth, Kshitish Ghate, and Mahzarin Banaji published a paper titled "Extracting intersectional stereotypes from embeddings: Developing and validating the Flexible Intersectional Stereotype Extraction procedure” in PNAS Nexus. 

Aylin Caliskan gave a keynote titled “Transparency in AI Ethics” at AAAI Artificial Intelligence with Biased or Scarce Data (AIBSD) Workshop. 

Aylin Caliskan gave a keynote titled “Bias and Fairness in Artificial Intelligence” at the “Seminal Presentation on Bias in AI and ML” at Howard University Virtual Applied Data Science Training Institute (VADSTI).  

Sandy Littletree gave an invited lecture titled “Centering Relationality in Libraries, Archives, and Museums: A Conversation at Amherst College.” This talk was a part of a seminar series titled “Organizing for Relationality: Indigenous Knowledge in Academic Libraries, Archives, and Museums.” 

Katie Davis gave an invited talk titled “Generative AI and the Future of Learning: Preserving Agency, Promoting Equity” at the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Pacific Regional Conference.  

Chirag Shah gave a few invited talks: 

• “AI for Information Access: How Do We Do It Responsibly?” at ASIS&T South Asia Chapter. 
• “The AI Frontier: Unveiling the Risks and Rewards” at Companis. 
• “Making LLMs More Reliable and Robust Through Auditing and Validation” at Amazon. 
• “AI Promises, Perils, and Potential Paths” at the Washington Appellate Courts. 
• “Are We Ready for What AI Could and Would Do?” at the Public Relations Society of America. 

Charles Bugre, PhD student, and his work was featured in an article titled “Residents of Nabdam schooled on mobile money scams and misinformation” in Ghana News Agency and Modern Ghana. 

Chirag Shah was quoted in an article titled “Nvidia unveils text-to-3D AI research project” in TechTarget.