Nikhil Shenoy traveled to Ethiopia last summer to participate in one of the new study abroad programs offered by the University of Washington Information School. As part of the inaugural group, Shenoy, who is pursuing a master’s degree...
Jesse Brisbois grew up listening her grandfather tell stories about the construction of Grand Coulee Dam. He would explain how the dam nearly decimated salmon and steelhead populations that their family and other members of the...
The University of Washington recognized three students from the Information School among the 2024 Husky 100, awarded to undergraduate and graduate students making the most out of their Husky experience. Now in its ninth year, the...
The Hack for Social Good hackathon brought 200 students from local high schools and middle schools to the Intellectual House at the University of Washington on April 5 for a day of creative and collaborative problem-solving. Led by...
During a trip to Eritrea, Nobel Menghis noticed the lack of access to technology in his home country. Fueled by a desire to make technology more accessible, Menghis has dedicated his education and career to achieving this...
As an embedded researcher in the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, Karen Fisher wanted to know about the effects of domicide and the invisible lives of women.Those living in the camp are conservative Sunni Muslim, and it’s rare to...
Inspired by the annual MisinfoDay co-organized through a statewide partnership between the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public and Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, a local media literacy coalition in Monterey County, California adapted the...
This year’s Information School Alumni Impact Awards honor two graduates whose work pursues different forms of equity, one through her research and one by changing the ways research is disseminated.Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Eun Kyoung Choe, Ph.D. ’14, is an associate professor at the...
Hala Annabi, an associate professor in the University of Washington Information School, originally authored the Autism@Work Playbook in 2019 in partnership with several leading private employers with the goal of increasing employment opportunities for neurodivergent people. Today she is releasing another...
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...
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...
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