Navreet Kaur (PhD Student) and co-authors Hoda Ayad, Hayoung Jung, Shravika Mittal, Mummum De Choudhury, and Tanu Mitra’s paper titled “Who’s Asking? Simulating Role-Based Questions for Conversational AI Evaluation,” was accepted to the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).  

Megane A. T. Kayo (PhD Student) and co-author Joe Tennis’s paper titled “CARE-ful KO: From ‘Neutral’ Access to Relational Accountability,” was accepted to International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference (ISKO 2026 

Amelia Lee Dogan (PhD Student) and co-authors Soham De (PhD Student), Ufuoma Ovienmhada, and Lindah Kotut’s paper titled “Environmental Justice Screening Tools: Current Practices and Future Directions,” was accepted to the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Comparative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2026). 

Amelia Dogan (PhD Student), Nino Migineishvili, Rachel Marston, Katlyn Turner, Taneea Agrawaal, Hongjin Lin, Ashley Boone, B. Biira (PhD Student), Nina Lutz (PhD Student), Ufuoma Ovienmhada, Benjamin Xie (iSchool Alumni), and Lindah Kotut are organizing a workshop titled “Towards Cross-Pollination Between CSCW and Frontline Environmental and Climate Justice,” that will be presented at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Comparative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2026).

Joe Tennis’s paper titled “Exploring Indexicality and Origination Constructs in Data about Data,” was accepted to the International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference (ISKO 2026).  

Mads Eggerding and co-author Debra Brown’s paper titled “From Drifting to Anchored: How Online Health Communities Can Transform Care for Complex Chronic Illness” will be published in Patient Experience Journal (PXJ). 

Jevin West and Damian Hodel (PhD Student) co-authored an Op-Ed titled “A Disturbing Byproduct of AI: Knowledge Collapse,” published in The Seattle Times. 

Katie Davis moderated a panel titled “Meltdowns to Mindfulness – Self Regulation in a Digital World: Part 2 – Adolescence,” organized by Children And Screens. 

Ben Lee will be co-organizing a workshop in November titled “AI + Libraries Roundtable and Workshop,” with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) as a part of the DPLA’s grant from Humanity AI to ensure that libraries play a central role in shaping how artificial intelligence enters public life. 

Ben Lee gave the Data, Archives, and Information in Society (DAIS) Seminar titled “Computing Cultural Heritage: AI, Discoverability, and Scale,” at the University of Michigan.  

Chirag Shah gave an invited talk titled “Being Human in the Age of AI,” at Trilogy in Redmond Ridge.  

Chirag Shah was mentioned in an article titled “Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Powers Enterprise AI Agents,” published on AI Business.