Jake Wobbrock received the ACM SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility, which is awarded to one researcher every other year for making significant and lasting contributions to the development of computing technologies that improve the accessibility of media and...

Temi Odumosu gave a presentation titled “What Must be Named? Reflections on Description as Testimony” at a workshop at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies in at Universität Bonn in Germany. This workshop investigates analogue and digital methods for the...

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...

Heather Whiteman has been recognized as one of the Top 30 Global People Analytics Influencers by the People Analytics Network Caucus (PANC). Ben Lee has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Kate Starbird and...

Tanu Mitra and Chirag Shah were both selected as Fulbright Scholars for 2026-2027 cohort.Jason Yip gave a keynote titled "Co-designing with Children on AI" for the C3AI Workshop at the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2026).Katelyn Mei (PhD Student) and...

Ben Lee received a visiting fellowship at Harvard Library Innovation Lab for research about public data discoverability. Damian Hodel (PhD Student) and co-author Jevin West’s paper titled “Epistemic Diversity Across Language Models Mitigates Knowledge Collapse,” was...

Tracie Hall delivered a keynote titled, "'Saviors' and Silences: The Potentialities of Library Publishing in Resisting Racialized Censorship" at the Library Publishing Forum 2026.Sandy Littletree and Carole...

Martin Saveski received a $40,000 award from the UW Royalty Research Fund for his project titled “Evaluating the Effects of Introducing AI in a Real-World Crowdsourced Fact-Checking System.”Wes King received a Distinguished Teaching Award at the...

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...

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...

Lucy Lu Wang and co-authors Anukriti Kumar, Kate Glazko, Yueran Sun, Mark Harniss, and Jennifer Mankoff’s paper titled “Beyond Readability Metrics: Plain Language Priorities in Disability Advocacy Organizations,” was accepted to ACM Conference on Fairness,...

Sandy Littletree was recognized as the recipient of the Jill and Joe McKinstry Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Native North American Indigenous Knowledge.Paul Jason Perez (PhD Student) received a Simpson Center for the Humanities Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowship for his...

Several Information School researchers were represented at this year’s ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) which was hosted at University of Washington by Chirag Shah: Short paper: “Implicit Humanization in Everyday LLM Moral...

Michelle Martin and co-author Mandi Harris (PhD Student)’s paper titled “Home is a Sound: Relationships with the Land in African American and Native American Picture Books,” was accepted to Summer School 2026: Indigenous Voices in Children’s Literature. Michelle...

Chirag Shah gave a keynote titled “Beyond the Personalization-Privacy Pareto: Can AI Agents Break the Tradeoff?” at the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2026. Ben Lee and co-authors Rob Ehrenreich, Todd Presner, Michael Haley Goldman,...