Chirag Shah was elected to the 2025 Class of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Academy, which recognizes individuals who have made significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval (IR).  

Amelia Dogan (PhD Student) and co-author Lindah Kotut’s paper titled “Down to Earth’: Design Considerations for AI for Sustainability from the Environmental and Climate Movement,” was accepted to the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2025. 

Amelia Dogan (PhD Student) and co-authors Meira Gilbert and Lindah Kotut’s paper titled “Easy Come, Easy Go: Phone Enabled Small-Scale Financial Grift,” was accepted to the ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) 2025.    

Chris Coward and co-authors Nisha Devasia and Jin Ha Lee’s paper titled “Escape Rooms for Misinformation Education: A Case Study of Co-design with Two Communities,” was accepted to the Digital Games Research Association Conference (DiGRA) 2025. 

Chirag Shah and co-author Ryen White (Affiliate Professor)’s paper titled “From To-Do to Ta-Da: Transforming Task-Focused IR with Generative AI,” was presented at the ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2025.  

Tanu Mitra and co-authors Nicholas Clark, Hua Shen (Postdoctoral Scholar), and Bill Howe’s paper titled “Epistemic Alignment: A Mediating Work for User-LLM Knowledge Delivery,” was accepted to the Conference on Language Frame Modeling (COLM) 2025. 

Mandi Harris presented a panel titled “Indigenizing the Library: How Idaho Created a Statewide Training for Indigenous Inclusion” at the International Indigenous Librarians' Forum. 

Mandi Harris, Brandon Hall (MLIS Alumni), Catherine Jenson (MLIS Alumni), and Michelle Martin co-presented a panel discussion titled “Flora, Fauna & Whenua: Building Cultural Humility Through Study Abroad” at the International Indigenous Librarians' Forum. They also presented the panel at the Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference. 

Melanie Walsh published an interactive data essay titled, “Bears Will Be Boys,” on The Pudding. The essay features more than 800 animal characters from children's books and is an exploration of which animals we gender and why.  

Chirag Shah was quoted in an article titled “Website Bots Could Help Publishers Fight Off Traffic Loss from AI Crawling,” published in NPR Marketplace Business News. 

Chirag Shah was quoted in an article titled “Tech Users Are Falling in Love with their Chatbot Assistants,” published in The Washington Times.  

Chirag Shah was quoted in an article titled “AI-Generated Deepfakes Spread in Israel-Iran-U.S. Conflict” published on TechTarget.