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April 21, 2026

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  for his project&Բ;“Digital Archive of Philippine Transnational Activism”.

Melanie Walsh was appointed as one of two  for the 2025-2027 cohort. 

Charles Bugre (PhD Student), Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student), Kelis Hightower (Informatics Student), Emily Hao (Informatics Student), Zoe Huang (Informatics Student), and Sanjana Pavani (Informatics Student) ɱ&Բ;&Բ;𳦴DzԾ&Բ;&Բ;ٳ󾱲&Բ;𲹰’s . 

Lindah Kotut gave a workshop and keynote lecture titled “” with the Tech Justice Lab at Purdue University.

Batya Friedman and David Henry published the second edition of their book

Melanie Walsh gave an invited talk titled “,” at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Information School. 

Chance Hunt gave an invited talk titled “Book Bans, Book Challenges, and the Freedom to Read” at the Bellevue Sunrise Rotary. 

Melanie Walsh gave a Postgraduate Research Seminar titled “?” at Queen Mary University in London.

Ryan Calo and Jevin West spoke at an event hosted by the , , and the , titled “” which was recently published on KUOW.  

The Information School researchers and students were well-represented at this year’s : 

  • Paper (Best Paper Award): “ by co-authors Kaiwen Sun, Jade Xiaoyi Li (PhD Student), Irene Chung, Jenny Radesky, Jason Yip, Christopher Brooks, and Florian Schaub

  • Paper (Best Paper Award):&Բ;“ by co-authors Nina Lutz, Joseph Schafer, Priya Dhawka, Phil Tinn, and Kate Starbird

  • Paper (Honorable Mention):&Բ;“” by co-authors Yumeng Ma, Alexis Hiniker, and Jacob Wobbrock

  • Paper (Honorable Mention):&Բ;“ by co-authors Ruishi Zou, Shiyu Xu, Margaret Morris, Jihan Ryu, Timothy Becker, Nicholas Allen, Anne Marie Albano, Randy Auerbach, Daniel Adler, Varun Mishra, Lace Padilla, Dakuo Wang, Ryan Sultan, and Xuhai Xu

  • Paper (Honorable Mention): “ by co-authors Yike Shi, Qing Ziao, Qing Hu, Hong Shen, and Hua Shen (former Postdoctoral Scholar)

  • Paper: “” by co-authors Michelle Newman (PhD Student), Daeun Yoo (PhD Student), Runhua Zhao (PhD Student), Emily Tuy (̳ Student), Hannah Yi (Informatics Student), Darae Kim, Jin Ha Lee, and Jason Yip

  • Paper: “” by co-authors Yeonhee (Johnny) Cho (PhD Student), Daeun Hwang (PhD student), Ally Lam (Informatics Student), Jin Ha Lee, and Jason Yip

  • Paper:&Բ;“ by co-authors Francesca Fusco, Caroline Pitt (Postdoctoral Scholar), Michele Newman (PhD Student), Jason Yip, and Nikita Soni

  • Paper: “” by co-authors Aayushi Dangol, Smriti Kotiyal (̳ Student), Robert Wolfe, Alex Bowers, Antonio Vigil, Jason Yip, Julie Kientz, Suleman Shahid, Tom Yeh, Vincent Cho, and Katie Davis 

  • Paper: “” by Daeun Yoo (PhD Student), Daniela Munoz Lopez, Xiaotian Daisy Hu, Jason Yip, and Katie Davis

  • Paper: “ by Daeun Yoo (PhD Student), Michele Newman (PhD Student), Caroline Pitt, Kevin Huu Vo (Informatics, Kids Team), Michelle Zhang, Michelle Kim, Katie Davis, and Jason Yip

  • Paper: “ by co-authors Jason Yip, Michele Newman (PhD Student), Runhua Zhao (PhD Student), Darae Kim, Jan Lim, Matthew Kyle Pedraja, Swati Sachdeva, Xiaoyu Zheng, Yifang Zhou, Chris Coward, and Jin Ha Lee

  • Paper: “” by co-authors Agathe Balayn, Varun Nagaraj Rao, Su Lin Blodgett, Aylin Caliskan, and Solon Barocas

  • Paper: “” by co-authors Esther Han Beol Jang, Anosh Ardeni, Kunsang Choden (PhD Student), Jennifer Webster, Jason Young, and Kurtis Heimerl

  • Paper: “ by co-authors Seokhyun Hwang (PhD Student), Xiyuan Shen, Alexandre Filipowicz, Andrew Best, Jean Costa, Scott Carter, James Fogarty, and Jacob Wobbrock

  • Paper: “” by co-authors Claire Mitchell (PhD Student), Junhan Kong (PhD Student), Jesse Martinez, Amy Ko, Alexis Hiniker, and Jacob Wobbrock

  • Paper: “ by co-authors Mingyuan Zhong, Xia Chen, Davin Win Kyi, Chen Li, James Fogarty, and Jacob Wobbrock

  • Paper: “” by co-authors Yue Fu (PhD Student), Tony Zhou, Bin Han (PhD student), Marx Wang (PhD Student), Yixin Chen (PhD Student), Zelia Gomes Da Costa Lai, Rock Yuren Pang, Katharina Reinecke, Jacob Wobbrock, and Alexis Hiniker

  • Paper: “” by co-authors Taneea Agrawaal, Nils Bonfils, Amelia Dogan (PhD Student), Siyi Wu, and Robert Soden

  • Paper: “ by co-authors Yancheng Cao, Yishu Ji, Yue Fu (PhD Student), Sahiti Dharmavaram, Meghan Turchioe, Natalie Benda, Lena Mamykina, Yuling Sun, and Xuhai Xu

  • Paper:&Բ;“” by Kuan Zou, Aixin Sun, Yitong Ji, Hao Zhang, Jing Wang, Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang (PhD Student), Xuemeng Jiang

  • Paper: “ by co-authors Yixin Chen (PhD Student), Yue Fu (PhD Student), Zeya Chen, Jenny Radesky, and Alexis Hiniker

  • Poster:&Բ;“” by co-authors Ray-Yuan Chung, Jaime Snyder, Zixuan Xu, Daeun Yoo (PhD Student), Athena Ortega, Wanda Pratt, Aaron Wightman, Ryan Hutson, Cozumel Pruette, and Ari Pollack

  • Workshop: “” presented by Hua Shen (former Postdoctoral Scholar), Tiffany Knearem, Divy Thakkar, Pat Pataranutaporn, Anoop Sinha, Yike Shi, Jenny Liang, Lama Ahmad, Tanu Mitra, Brad Myers, and Yang Li

  • Workshop: “” presented by Tal August, Andrew Head, Alexa Siu, Elena Glassman, Jonathan Kummerfeld, Joseph Chee Chang, Lucy Lu Wang, and Marti Hearst

  • Workshop:&Բ;“” presented by Yue Fu (PhD student) and many others