Tracie Hall gave a keynote titled “On Information Islands: The Rise of Co-Intelligence, the Necessity of Civic Fluency and the Decline of Human Literacy,” at the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB) Conference. Tracie and Cindy Aden co-led a fireside chat after the keynote.
Hala Annabi, Mike Teodorescu, and Spencer Williams were selected for the 2025-2026 Research Impact Advocates cohort, which will allow them to increase their capacity to engage the public about their research findings and expertise.
Bill Howe and co-authors Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, and Jeffrey Heer’s paper titled “Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations” received a 10-Years IEEE InfoVis Test of Time Award.
Meira Gilbert (PhD Student) and co-authors Miranda Wei and Lindah Kotut’s 2025 SOUPS paper titled, "TikTok, Do Your Thing”: User Reactions to Social Surveillance in the Public Sphere," was recognized as a finalist in the CSAW 2025 Applied Research Competition for Best Paper.
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.
The iSchool was well-represented at the 2024 ASIS&T Annual Meeting [asist.org]
Panel: Sandy Littletree, Carole Palmer, Jennifer O’Neal, Vina Begay, Alexander Soto, Diana Marsh, and Kirsten Thorpe presented “Relational Accountability in Indigenous Data Stewardship and Archival Practices.”
Panel: Chirag Shah, Lateef Ayinde, Shengnan Yang, Xiaohua (Awa) Zhu, Laura Ridenour, and Miyoung Chong presented “Teaching Generative Artificial Intelligence Literacy.”
Panel: Annie T. Chen, Xinchen Yi, Yan Zhang, and Wonchan Choi presented “Researching Health Information Behaviors: Landscape, AI’s Role, and Its Impact.”
Panel: Annie T. Chen, Rongqian Ma, Jenny Bossaller, Christina Boyles, and Devan Ray Donaldson presented “Co-Creation in Context: Participatory Approaches to Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Work.”
Workshop: Ben Lee, Kurt Luther, Vikram Mohanty, Victoria Van Hyning and Wenbo Xu presented “Past Meets Future: Human-AI Interaction, DIgital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage.”
Symposium: Annie T. Chen, Alexandra Chassanoff, Isto Huvila, Zack Lischer-Katz, Travis Wagner, and Rhiannon Bettivia presented “Exploring Information-as-potentiality: Methods for Design and Evaluation (SIG-USE)”
Cindy Aden and Phil Neufield (SHLB Board Chair) co-led a presentation regarding the SHLB 2026 strategic plan at the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB) Conference. Broadband Breakfast covered that discussion in an article titled “Anchor Institution Say Mission Endures as Policy Climate Shifts”
Chirag Shah gave a talk titled “AI Agents and their Legal Implications” at the National Courts and Sciences Institute (NCSI).
Chirag Shah was mentioned in an article titled “Your Guide to the New Google Search Results: AI Summaries May Not Always Be Trustworthy” published in AARP Magazine.