Dean & Professor Emeritus Mike Eisenberg has launched a new podcast with Dave Lankes, Director of the University of South Carolina iSchool. "Libraries Lead the New Normal" is a new podcast hosted by Mike Eisenberg (Dean & Professor Emeritus, Information School, Univ of Washington) &...

The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has selected Chirag Shah as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the new ASIS&T publication, Information Matters. The purpose of this new publication is to regularly communicate the latest trends...

Katie Davis, Alexis Hiniker, and Molly Adrian (UW Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences), along with colleagues from University College London and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), were awarded a UW Global Innovation Fund (GIF) grant of $8,862 for Setting an International, Cross-Disciplinary...

Ricardo Gomez was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship for his sabbatical work with indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon (2021-22). For the period of 2010 – 2020, Jacob O. Wobbrock was deemed the “Most Influential Scholar in Human-Computer Interaction” by AMiner, the...

Nicole S. Kuhn has been awarded the 2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Ford Foundation 2021 Predoctoral Fellowship. These fellowships will support her dissertation work exploring how Indigenous communities are using social media to create and share culturally...

Michelle H. Martin has been awarded funding from the first UW Black Opportunity Fund awards. With those funds, Katya Yefimova will serve as Research Associate with Camp Read-a-Rama in summer 2021, collecting data on both children’s programs and on trainings for teachers, librarians and others who...

Tanu Mitra received a Google Research Scholar Program award of $60,000 for Supporting Scalable Value-Sensitive Fact-Checking through Human-AI Intelligence. Anastasia Schaadhardt has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Her proposal was to address...

Chirag Shah: was interviewed for a Seattle Times article titled, “In the 15 years since its launch, Amazon Web Services transformed how companies do business.” wrote an article for The Conversation titled, “It’s not just a social media problem – how search engines...

Katie Davis was an invited speaker for the Ask the Experts Virtual Workshop Series hosted by Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development. The webinar was attended by over 600 people and focused on the topic: All in the Family: A Conversation about Media Rules, Parental...

Megan Finn, Amelia Acker (University of Texas), and Ryan Ellis (Northeastern University) received a $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and the Open Collective Foundation for the COVID Data Infrastructure Builders Project. Of the total amount, $42,823 will come to the iSchool. The new project...

Annie Searle was interviewed by Richard Levick last month for his podcast In House Warrior, running on all the major channels, that the Corporate Counsel Business Journal distributed to their 30,000 general counsel readers: ”In House Warrior: The Risk Detective Annie Searle, Professor, Author and...

Jason Young was interviewed about his work with the Tacoma Cooperative Network for a UW Daily article titled, “UW researchers work to decrease digital divide.” Jacob O. Wobbrock was interviewed for a UW Daily article titled, “UW iSchool professor begins work on an ability-based design...

Jacob O. Wobbrock had three papers accepted to CHI 2021: Zhang, M.R., Wang, R., Xu, X., Li, Q., Sharif, A. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2021). “Voicemoji: Emoji entry using voice for visually impaired people.” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21)....

Hala Annabi’s Autism @ Work Playbook was highlighted in SHRM: “Inclusive Strategies Create a 'More Universal Workplace.'” Megan Finn and Stacey Wedlake were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) RAPID grant of $91,013 for COVID Data Infrastructure Builders: Creating Resilient and...

Megan Finn received a UW Royalty Research Fund award of $39,984 for Inconvenient Data. Marika Cifor and Ricardo Gomez received a UW Royalty Research Fund award of $39,975 for Sanctuary laws are not optional: Examining immigration information flows to monitor law enforcement compliance with...