Hala Annabi received a $15,000,000 grant from the Canopy Neurodiversity Foundation to support the launch of the UW Institute for Neurodiversity and Employment.
Ben Lee received a $10,000 grant from the American Institute of Physics for his project titled “Re-Imagining Discoverability for the American Institute of Physics' Digital Collections using AI.”
Ben Lee and co-author Ying-Hsiang Huang’s paper titled “Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections” was published in Computational Humanities Research.
Sandy Littletree, Ben Lee, Hala Annabi, Jaime Snyder, Brandon Locke, Michelle Martin, Jason Young, Pelle Tracey, Nassim Parvin, Melanie Walsh, and Syndey DeMets (PhD Student) all gave lightning talks at this year's iSchool Research Blitz. The event slides can be accessed here.
Chirag Shah gave a keynote titled “Beyond Autonomous Agents: Building Trust and Accountability in AI-Powered Metadata Ecosystems” at the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference 2025 (DCMI 2025).
Chirag Shah was mentioned in an article titled “37% of Google AI Finance Answers Are Inaccurate in 2025,” published on The College Investor.
Jevin West was interviewed for an article titled “AI-Generated Animals are Distancing Us from Nature” published in Atmos.