Yim Register (PhD Student) received a national iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award for their project titled “The Future of AI Can Be Kind: Strategies for Embedded Ethics in AI Education.”
Sarah Nguyen (PhD Student) received the 2025 Center for an Informed Public (CIP) Robert Mason Outstanding Mentor Award.
Chirag Shah’s paper titled “From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Science with Humans in the Loop” was published in Communications of the ACM.
Lisa Dirks (PhD Student) and co-authors Victoria BearBow and Wanda Pratt’s paper titled “Enhancing Health Research Results Dissemination for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities through Indigenous Community-Centered Design” was presented at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2025 Annual Symposium.
Lane Eagles and co-authors Brandon Locke, and Sharon Stream’s project titled “Weaving the Common Threads of Washington Museums Libraries, and Archives,” was presented at the 2025 Washington Museum Association (WAMA) Annual Conference.
Sarah Lohmann authored a book chapter titled “National Security Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models” in The Weaponization of AI: The Next Stage of Terrorism and Warfare.
Chirag Shah gave a keynote speech titled “AI Agents Renaissance: Personalization, Proactivity, and Privacy” at the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIM 2025) Conference.
Chirag Shah gave an invited seminar titled “From Retrieval to Renaissance: Building Transmodal Information Experiences Through Agentic AI,” at Sorbonne Université.
Sarah Lohmann gave an invited talk titled “Building Resilience of Critical National Infrastructures in the Era of Emerging Technologies” at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) headquarters for the Third Inter-Regional Conference on the Impact of Emerging Technologies.
Sandy Littletree, Jennifer O’Neal, Vina Begay, Alexander Soto, Diana Marsh, Kirsten Thorpe, and Carole Palmer, organized a panel titled “Relational Accountability in Indigenous Stewardship and Archival Practices” which was accepted to the Association for Information Science (ASIS&T) 2025 Annual Meeting.
Sydney DeMets (PhD Student) was interviewed for an episode of the Rocks for Jocks Podcast titled “The Science of Podcasts.”
Chirag Shah was mentioned in an article titled “The New York Times in a Multiyear Licensing Deal with Amazon” published on TechTarget.
Chirag Shah was mentioned in a Marketplace Business News article titled “Reddit Sues Anthropic for Allegedly Using its Data to Train AI Without Permission,” published by NPR. He was also featured in the accompanying Marketplace podcast episode covering the topic.