Ben Lee gave a keynote titled “AI and Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges for Discoverability” at the Interactive AI Fair held at Temple University. 

Chris Coward and Co-PIs Luca Moltmann, Jin Ha Lee, Maja Drobne, Agnieszka Koszowska, and Koen Vandendriessche received an ERASMUS+ grant of €250,000 ($45,208 of which went to the iSchool). 

Ernesto Cuba (Postdoctoral Scholar) received a $1,000 Paul Monette-Roger Horwitz Dissertation Prize, a prestigious award that recognizes outstanding dissertations in LGBTQ Studies within the City University of New York system, for his dissertation titled “Féminas Speaking Up: Three Papers on Feminine Transgender Identities, Gender Identity Activism, and Language Reform in Lima, Peru.”  

Richard Lewei Huang (PhD Student) received a Rhizome Microgrant for his digital art project “Yellow Pages for the Past Web,” a project of printed web directories from the late 1990s-early 2000s.  

Jessica Luke and co-author Cindy Foley’s paper titled “Impacts of Awe and Wonder on Adults’ Critical Thinking During an Art Museum Visit” was published in Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and research in Art Education.  

Several iSchool faculty members and PhD Candidates submitted position papers to the Indigenous Computational Futures Collective 2025 Winter Institute at Arizona State University, hosted by the Indigenous Computational Futures Collective. The papers include:  

• Sandy Littletree: “Welcome to (Indigenous) Information Science” 
• Temi Odumosu and Miranda Belarde-Lewis: “This Thing Speaks”: Artful Interpretations of Our Computational Futures” 
• Lisa Dirks (PhD Candidate): “Fostering Trust: Collaborative Design in Health Research Results Dissemination with Indigenous Communities” 
• Nicole Kuhn (PhD Candidate): “Indigenous Health Communication on Social Media: Developing Research Methodologies and Ethics to Support This Critical Work” 

Chirag Shah and co-authors Maryam Amirizaniani, Maryna Sivachenko, Adrian Lavergne, and Afra Mashhadi’s paper titled “How Does Memorization Impact LLMs’ Social Reasoning? An Assessment using Seen and Unseen Queries” was accepted to ACM Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM).  

Richard Lewei Huang’s (PhD Student) digital project titled “Banner Depot 2000 Poetry Maker,” was included in an anthology of computer-generated literature titled In Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953-2023, edited by Lillian Yvonne-Bertram and Nick Montfort and co-published by Counterpath and MIT Press.  

Lisa Dirks (PhD Candidate) and Nicole Kuhn (PhD Candidate) were panel members for “Responsible and Responsive Indigenous Design Methodologies and Techniques” at the Indigenous Computational Futures Collective 2025 Winter Institute. 

Chirag Shah was quoted in an article titled “Apple and the Bullish AI Investment Trend” published on TechTarget.