Jevin West and Co-Investigator Carl Bergstrom received an AI@UW Supporting Educational Excellence and Discovery with AI (SEED-AI) Grant of $49,394 for their project “Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Learning to Learn in an LLM World.”
Ben Lee and Co-Investigators Kevin Lin, Chris Holstrom, Kathryn Pursch Cornforth, Suh Young Choi, and Megumi Kivuva received an AI@UW Supporting Educational Excellence and Discovery with AI (SEED-AI) Grant of $50,000 for their project “A Framework for AI-Accelerated Community-Engaged Learning in Undergraduate Data, AI, and Computing Courses.”
Ben Lee received an American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Writing Award in Technology in recognition of his Longreads essay titled “Uncanny Testimony”.
Belén Saldías was selected to be one of the inaugural recipients of the Google Higher Ed Faculty AI Fellowship for North America.
Belén Saldías and co-author Irti Haqs (MLIS Student)’s paper titled “Dialect vs Demographics: Quantifying LLM Bias from Implicit Linguistic Signals vs. Explicit User Profiles” was accepted to ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2026).
Ben Lee and co-authors Ying-Hsiang Huang, Claire Gong, Shreya Shaji, Alison Yan, Leslie Harka (MLIS alumni), Albert Du, Anjali Gopal, Samuel Klein, Shannon Shen, Mark Phillips, Trevor Owens, and Kyle Deeds’s paper titled “GovScape: A Public Multimodal Search System for 70 Million Pages of Government PDFs,” was accepted to the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).
Melanie Walsh published an essay titled “’Infinite Jest,’ the Internet, and the Politics of Reading,” for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Richard Lewei Huang and Yufeng Zhao’s project Banner Depot 2000 will be an exhibition at the International Media Arts Festival Sonar+D 2026. The project is a multilingual collection of historical web banner ads meant to function as a computational poetry project, where visitors can compose found poetry from individual banner ad frames.
Stacey Wedlake, Francisco Garcia Ortiz, Honsby Pacheco, and Brenda Heindl presented the webinar "Inclusive Data Practices: Strengthening Connections with Rural Communities" for InfoPeople, a public library professional development platform, as part of an IMLS-funded project.
Tessa Rose Campbell (PhD Student) gave an invited presentation, "Wearing our Mother Earth: Indigenous Fashion as Relationship and Responsibility," for an Indigenous Fashion Show at Everett Community College honoring Earth Day, hosted by the American Indian Student Association.
Tessa Rose Campbell (PhD Student) gave an invited presentation, "Indigenizing Library and Information Science: A Native Scholar's Pathway Through Academia," at the 2nd Annual American Indian & Indigenous Studies and Ethnic Studies (AIIS–ES) Summit: Radical Transformation: AIIS-ES Across the Curriculum.
Jevin West gave an invited talk titled “AI, Misinformation, and the Integrity of Public Discourse” at the University of Toronto for their Absolutely Interdisciplinary annual event.
Chirag Shah was quoted in an article titled “Nvidia Nemotrom 3 Nano Omni Powers Enterprise AI Agents,” published in AI Business.