Sharon Streams and collaborators Ben Lee and Jessica Luke received a $145,899 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) for their project titled "Interdisciplinary Research and Action Roadmap for Libraries, Archives, and Museums."
Tracie D. Hall is the recipient of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Award from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.
Mads Eggerding’s paper titled “From Drifting to Anchored: How Online Health Communities Can Transform Care for Complex Chronic Illness,” was published in Patient Experiences Journal.
Amy Ko and co-authors Jayne Everson, Rotem Landesman (PhD Alumni), Janet Jiang, Megumi Kivuva (PhD Student), and Eman Sherif’s paper titled “Student Experiences of Joyful Secondary CS Classrooms” was accepted to the ACM Conference on International Computing Education and Research (ICER 2026).
Amy Ko and co-authors Belen Edgar, Eman Sherif, Janet Jiang, and Saara Uthmaan’s (Informatics Student) paper titled “Not Built for Us: Marginalized Students’ Visions for Help-Seeking in Computing Education” was accepted to the ACM Conference on International Computing Education and Research (ICER 2026).
Amy Ko and co-authors Adrienne Gifford, Sophia Dahl, and Cara Pangelinan’s paper titled “Adolescent Identity Expression Through Transdisciplinary, Computational, Creative Writing” was accepted to the ACM Conference on International Computing Education and Research (ICER 2026).
Sharon Streams gave a presentation titled "Sparking Connections Through Libraries, Museums, and Community Archives," a learning circle at the Transforming Social Connections Libraries Satellite Meeting hosted by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Library Information Congress (IFLA WLIC 2026).
Sharon Streams presented a poster titled “Bridging Zones of Convergence Across Libraries, Museums, and Archives,” at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Library Information Congress (IFLA WLIC 2026).
Katie Davis and co-author Vincent Cho wrote a chapter in Educating in Dangerous Times: A Call to Reenvision Public Schools in America, titled “The Compass and the Algorithm: Navigating Uncertainty in the AI Age.”
Batya Friedman and David Hendry were featured on David Carty’s podcast Ready, Test, Go, in an episode titled “Designing for Human Values.”
Melanie Walsh, Imani Finkley (PhD Student), and Yuanxi Li are featured in an article titled "UW Researchers Say AI is Coming for Kids Books, But It's Biased," published in the Seattle Times, which discusses their research on gender bias in AI-generated stories about animal characters. This article also features commentary from Michelle Martin.
Melanie Walsh, Imani Finkley (PhD Student), and Yuanxi Li’s research was also discussed in the following media:
An article titled “He, It, But Rarely She: When AI Models Write Kids’ Stories About Animals, Female Characters Vanish,” published in GeekWire.
An article titled “Why are all the Bears Boys? Two Studies Take a Look,” published in Seattle’s Child.
A KIRO News segment titled, “AI Carries Old Gender Bias into Children’s Stories.”
Chirag Shah was mentioned in an article titled “Help! An AI Overview Says My Business is Terrible,” published on Business Insider.