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Fer Palomares Carranco

On a quest to help her community

Monday, March 11, 2024

As an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, María Fernanda (Fer) Palomares Carranco found it challenging to do the type of research that would support her graduate school goals. The libraries and catalogs were difficult to...

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Scholar confronts tide of e-waste

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

As an iSchool doctoral candidate, Nick Logler spent weeks rummaging through trash piles on the side of the road, ferreting around in thrift stores, and browsing platforms like Craigslist. Discarded desktop printers were his target, and he...

Aylin Caliskan

A growing voice in tech policy

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The co-directors of UW’s Tech Policy Lab are familiar with breaking ground and testing new ideas together. Since 2013, they have partnered in research and education to guide conversations around topics with no clear path to an answer or...

Tracie D. Hall

Leading library advocate to join faculty

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Tracie D. Hall will join the Information School this fall as a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence. Hall, a 2000 graduate of the iSchool Master of Library and Information Science program, has served in a variety of roles in libraries,...

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A world of information

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Studying abroad offers students the chance to improve their language skills, to better understand different viewpoints, and to make global connections to what they’ve learned on campus. The University of Washington Information School now...

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Overflowing with ideas

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

With close to 250 students participating and more than 100 on the waitlist, this year’s Winfo Hackathon was the biggest yet. Led by the Women in Informatics student group, the hackathon brought students to the University of Washington...

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Researchers teach kids to code with cultural research, embroidery machines

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Even in tech-heavy Washington state, the numbers of students with access to computer science classes aren’t higher than national averages: In the 2022-2023 school year, 48% of public high schools offered foundational CS classes and 5% of middle school and high school students took such classes.Those...

Amy J. Ko

ACM recognizes Amy Ko as Distinguished Member

Monday, March 18, 2024

UW Information School Professor Amy J. Ko is among 52 global scholars recognized as Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for their innovative contributions to the computing field. The ACM is the world’s largest computing society. It recognizes up to 10 percent of...

Rachel Moran

Q&A: How Instagram influencers profit from anti-vaccine misinformation

Monday, March 18, 2024

While Instagram might have a reputation for superficiality — a realm of exquisitely filtered images — it is now eclipsing other social media as a news source. The platform is increasingly filled with information, some of it pernicious and distributed via influencers.Researchers at the University of...

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UW Libraries award scholarships to 18 iSchool students

Monday, February 26, 2024

Eighteen Information School students are among the 50 recipients of this year’s UW Libraries Student Employee Scholarship.The recipients will each receive $1,000 through the scholarship, which is funded from a variety of sources including individual donors, the Friends of the UW Libraries, and 14 named...

Mike Teodorescu

Q&A: What is the best route to fairer AI systems?

Thursday, February 15, 2024

In December, the European Union passed the AI Act, the first major law aiming to regulate technologies that fall under the umbrella of artificial intelligence. The legislation might have arrived sooner, but the sudden success of ChatGPT in late 2022 demanded the act be updated.The EU’s act, however, does...

Anind K. Dey

At the iSchool, we welcome the challenges and possibilities of AI

Monday, February 12, 2024

I am a huge proponent of artificial intelligence. In my research, I build systems that identify patterns that can be gleaned from your smartphone or any smart device. By studying student populations, we’ve been able to detect when students are suffering from depression and predict whether their GPAs will...

Nicholas Belkin

ASIS&T honors Nicholas Belkin, '70, for career achievements

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Since earning his Master of Librarianship at the University of Washington in 1970, Nicholas Belkin has had a distinguished career as one of the leading scholars in the field of information science. The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) recently recognized him for it with its...

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