Updates from Human Centered Design & Engineering faculty, PhD students, and research scientists.
Summer 2024
August 30, 2024
Shana Lee Hirsch (Co-Director) and collaborators at the Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC) were awarded $17.1M from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) intended to help strengthen and expand marine energy research and development and bolster marine energy testing infrastructure. Awarded funds will support the development of marine energy curriculum and graduate students, expand access to instruments and facilities, and enable strategic partnerships to support wave and tidal energy R&D across our region. PMEC is comprised of the University of Washington, Oregon State University, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks; of the total award to PMEC, $5.72M will be allocated to the University of Washington.
August 9, 2024
Gary Hsieh and Lucy Wang received a Microsoft AI and the New Future of Work Award: “Accelerating Research Translation into Design Practice Using Generative AI.” This work will explore the potential of generative AI to convert academic findings into a designer-friendly format.
Cecilia Aragon with co-authors Tianna Miles, Bernease Herman, and Sarah Evans published “Black Women Getting a Seat at the Table in the Video Game Industry” in The International Journal of Organizational Diversity.
Ruoxi Shang, Gary Hsieh, and Chirag Shah had a paper accepted to AIES 2024: “Trusting Your AI Agent Emotionally and Cognitively: Development and Validation of a Semantic Differential Scale for AI Trust.”
August 2, 2024
John Fowler and Mark Zachry will present “VizCare: Using UCD Techniques to Impact the Child Welfare System” at the IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference. This work has been featured in UW Today.
Pitch Sinlapanuntakul, Sophie Park, Connie Yang, and Mark Zachry published "'It Was Frustrating to Have to Constantly Redesign': An Exploration of Authenticity in Advanced UX Education" in the Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference.
Pitch Sinlapanuntakul and Mark Zachry published "Augmenting Self-presentation: Augmented Reality (AR) Filters Use Among Young Adults" in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, HCII 2024, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Sourojit Ghosh, Nina Lutz, and Aylin Caliskan had a paper accepted to AIES 2024: “'I don’t see myself represented here at all': User Experiences of Stable Diffusion Outputs Containing Representational Harims across Gender Identities and Nationalities.”
Sourojit Ghosh, with co-authors Pranav Venkit, Sanjana Gautam, Shomir Wilson, and Aylin Caliskan, had a paper accepted to AIES 2024: “Do Generative AI Models Output Harm While Representing Non-western Cultures: Evidence from a Community-Centered Approach.”
Sourojit Ghosh had a paper accepted to AIES 2024: “Interpretations, Representations, and Stereotypes of Caste within Text-to-Image Generators.”
July 26, 2024
Mark Haselkorn (PI), Sonia Savelli (Co-PI), Lynette Arias (Co-Director), David Ribes (Values Area Lead), and Brie Yost (Operations Manager) were awarded a $50,000,000 National Science Foundation grant for the “Safeguarding the Entire Community of the U.S. Research Ecosystem (SECURE) Center,” a national consortium of research institutions designed to bolster national research security. In addition to the national center at UW, five regional centers will guide and empower research stakeholders in the development, adoption and use of the SECURE Shared Virtual Environment: SECURE Northeast led by Northeastern University, SECURE Southeast led by Emory University, SECURE Midwest led by the University of Missouri, SECURE Southwest led by the University of Texas San Antonio and Texas A&M University, and SECURE West led by the University of Washington. News of this award has been covered by Science, Seattle Times and GeekWire.
Sayamindu Dasgupta (Co-PI), with Leilani Battle (PI), Amy Zhang (Sr. Personnel) and Tanu Mitra (Sr. Personnel) of the Design Use Build (DUB) group, have been awarded a $465,000 National Science Foundation grant, “The DUB REU Program for Human-Centered Computing Research.” This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site addresses a lack of human-centered scientists, analysts, developers, accessibility experts, and designers in the US computing workforce by providing undergraduate students with valuable training and research experiences to help them become independent and mindful contributors to society.
Brett Halperin was awarded the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies (UW) Graduate Labor Research Grant with collaborators Daniela Rosner, Diana Flores Ruíz and community partners the Workers Justice Project and Cynthia Tobar.
Caitlin Lustig, Meghna Gupta, and Daniela Rosner, with co-authors Maya Kaneko, Kavita Dattani, and Audrey Desjardins, received the Best Paper award for “Porous by Design: How Childcare Platforms Impact Worker Personhood, Safety, and Connection,” published in the Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
Brett Halperin and Daniela Rosner, with co-authors William Rhodes, Kai Leshne, and Afroditi Psarra, received an Honorable Mention award for “Resistive Threads: Electronic Streetwear as Social Movement Material,” published in the Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
Caitlin Lustig and Daniela Rosner, with co-authors Maya Kaneko and Audrey Desjardins, had a pictorial, “Care Layering: Complicating Design Patterns,” published in the Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
Rebecca Michelson, Caitlin Lustig, Daniela Rosner, and Josephine Hoy, with co-author Dorothy R. Santos, had a pictorial, “Worlding with Tarot: Design, Divination, and the Technological Imagination,” published in the Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
Sean Munson with collaborators Laurel Hansell, Clarissa Hsu, Karen Margolis, Mathew Thompson, Kelly Ehrlich, Yoshio Hall, Melissa Anderson, Sarah Evers, Miriam Marcus-Smith, Jennifer McClure, and Beverly Green published an article, “Patient experiences with blood pressure measurement methods for hypertension diagnosis: Qualitative findings from the BP-CHECK study,” in the American Journal of Hypertension.
Ridley Jones LeDoux, Charlotte P. Lee, Sucheta Ghoshal, and Mark Haselkorn published an article, “Concept of Operations as Epistemic Object: The Sociotechnical Design Roles of a Systems Engineering Document,” in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
Will Sutherland and Charlotte P. Lee, with co-author Drew Paine, published an article, “‘The Cloud is Not Not IT’: Ecological Change in Research Computing in the Cloud,” in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
Melinda McClure Haughey, with co-authors Danielle Lee Tomson and Stephen Prochaska, had an article, “Online rumors sparked by the Trump assassination attempt spread rapidly, on both ends of the political spectrum,” published in The Conversation.
Brock Craft and Adam Hyland presented “Designing Learning Activities” at the 2024 Teaching and Learning with AI Conference at the University of Central Florida.
Kate Starbird will moderate Stand with the Facts: Protecting Election Integrity with special guest, NPR correspondent Shannon Bond in discussion with researcher Sarah Nguyễn (UW CIP). Hosted by KNKX, KUOW, and the UW's Center for an Informed Public, this event will take place on September 11, 2024, at 7:30pm at Town Hall Seattle.
Autumn 2024
December 6, 2024
Ruiqi Chen with co-authors, Xia Su, Weiye Zhang, Jingwei Ma, and Jon Froehlich (UW Computer Science and Engineering) had a paper, “A Demo of DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping,” published in the Adjunct Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '24).
Kate Starbird and co-author Danielle Lee Tomson (UW Center for an Informed Public) had an article, “How right-wing media is like improv theater,” published in The Conversation.
Cecilia Aragon was profiled in the GeekWire article, “A mom and son with tech roots at the University of Washington launch trip-mapping startup.”
November 22, 2024
Lotus Zhang, with co-authors Ruei-Che Chang, Yuxuan Liu, and Anhong Guo (University of Michigan), had a paper, “EditScribe: Non-Visual Image Editing with Natural Language Verification Loops,” published in the Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24).
Meghna Gupta, with co-authors Peya Mowar (Carnegie Mellon University) and Mohit Jain (Microsoft Research), had a paper “Breaking the News Barrier: Towards Understanding News Consumption Practices among BVI Individuals in India,” published in the Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24).
Alexander Boltz, with co-authors Houjiang Liu, Anubrata Das, Didi Zhou, Daisy Pinaroc, Matthew Lease, and Min Kyung Lee (University of Texas at Austin), had a paper, “Human-centered NLP Fact-checking: Co-Designing with Fact-checkers using Matchmaking for AI,” published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW2. The paper received an honorable mention at CSCW ’24.
Nina Lutz and Cecilia Aragon had a paper, “"We're not all construction workers": Algorithmic Compression of Latinidad on TikTok,” published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
Cecilia Aragon, with co-authors Guo Freeman (Clemson University), Julian Frommel (Utrecht University), Regan L Mandryk (University of Victoria), Jan Gugenheimer (TU-Darmstadt/Telecom Paris), Lingyuan Li (The University of Texas at Austin), Daniel Johnson (Queensland University of Technology), Syed Ali Asif (University of Delaware), Jakki Bailey (The University of Texas at Austin), Meryem Barkallah (University of Michigan-Flint), Braeden Burger (University of Michigan-Flint), Sebastian Cmentowski (University of Waterloo), Jamie Hancock (The Alan Turing Institute), Leanne Hides (The University of Queensland), Hongxin Hu (University at Buffalo), Yang Hu (Clemson University), Wangfan Li (Clemson University), Ruchi Panchanadikar (Clemson University), Niloofar Sayadi (University of Notre Dame), Devin Tebbe (University of Michigan-Flint), Leslie Wöhler (The University of Tokyo), Xinyue You (The University of Texas at Austin), Zinan Zhang (The Pennsylvania State University), and Douglas Zytko (University of Michigan-Flint), had a paper, “Understanding and Mitigating New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Speculative Dystopian Design Fiction Approach,” published in CSCW Companion '24: Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.
Adiza Awwal had a paper, “Understanding the Discourse of the Black Manosphere on YouTube,” published in CSCW Companion '24: Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.
Nina Lutz, Jordyn Padzensky, and Joseph Schafer had a paper, “Working with Color: How Color Quantization Can Aid Researchers of Problematic Information,” published in CSCW Companion '24: Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.
Sayan Bhattacharjee, with co-authors Pooja Upadhyay (University of Maryland, College Park) and Shreyasha Paudel (University of Toronto), had a short paper, “Positionality of Researchers Identifying with the "Global South": Shared Heritages, Ways of Thinking and Doing Research,” published in CSCW Companion '24: Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.
Katya Cherukumilli is profiled in the UW Daily article, “HCDE professor explores safe drinking water solutions for public institutions.”
November 15, 2024
Leah Findlater, with co-authors Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Xiuwen Zheng, Heejin Kim, Clarion Mendes, Meg Dickinson, Erik Hege, Chris Zwilling, Marie Moore Channell, and Laura Mattie (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Heather Hodges and Lorraine Ramig (LSVT Global), Mary Bellard (Microsoft), Mike Shebanek, Leda Sarι, and Kaustubh Kalgaonkar (Meta), David Frerichs (Media Tuners LLC), Jeffrey P. Bigham, Colin Lea, and Sarah Herrlinger (Apple), Peter Korn and Shadi Abou-Zahra (Amazon), Rus Heywood, Katrin Tomanek, and Bob MacDonald (Google), had a paper, Community-Supported Shared Infrastructure in Support of Speech Accessibility, in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Meena Devii Muralikumar and David W. McDonald had a paper, Analyzing Collaborative Challenges and Needs of UX Practitioners when Designing with AI/ML, published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
Sonia Savelli, with co-authors Chao Qin, Susan Josyln and Jee Hoon Han (UW Psychology), and Nidhi Agrawal (UW Foster School of Business), had a paper, Messaging to Reduce Booster Hesitancy among the Fully Vaccinated, published in Vaccines.
Brett Halperin, with collaborators C. Estelle Smith and Alemitu Bezabih (Colorado School of Mines), Diana Freed (Brown University), Sara Wolf (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), Caroline Claisse (Newcastle University), Jingjin Li (AImpower.org), Michael Hoefer (University of St. Tomas), Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat (University of Toronto), participated in a CSCW panel, (Un)designing AI for Mental and Spiritual Wellbeing.
Kate Starbird is quoted in The Atlantic article, “Bad News,” the NPR story, “2020's debunked election fraud claims are coming back due to Trump's 2024 victory,” and the Washington Post article, “AI didn't sway the election, but it deepened the partisan divide.”
November 8, 2024
Elin A. Björling, Ruican Zhang, and Sean Roth, with co-authors Kung Jin Lee (Ewha Womans University), Jin Ha Lee (UW Information School), and Juan Rubio (Seattle Public Library), had an article, “Designing for Teen Mental Health: An exploration of the co-design of virtual reality in the public library setting” published in the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.
David Ribes, with co-authors Michaelanne Thomas (University of Michigan), Andrea Grover (University of Nebraska Omaha), Megh Marathe (Michigan State University), Alexandra Teixeira Riggs (Georgia Institute of Technology), Firaz Peer (University of Kentucky), and Pooja Upadhyay (University of Maryland, College Park), had an article, “Historical Friction: Pacing Ourselves in HCI,” published in ACM Interactions.
Kate Starbird is quoted in the New York Times article “5 Reasons Early Voting Is Overwhelmed With Falsehoods.”
Cecilia Aragon will deliver the Judith A. Resnik Memorial Lecture at Lafayette College on November 18, 2024 in Easton, PA.
Daniela Rosner and Nadya Peek will participate as panelists at the Making Community: Craft, Openness and Technology workshop to be held November 21, 2024. The hybrid workshop will explore the vibrant intersection of art, design, technology, and community, featuring four groundbreaking designers, artists, and scholars from the University of Washington.
November 1, 2024
Michael Beach, Christina Graves, and Tyler Fox had a pictorial, “Speculative F/Actors: Climate Futures - Crafting a Workshop for Collaborative Worldbuilding in Cataclysmic Climates,” published in the Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium.
Kate Starbird and Stephen Prochaska (UW Information School) had an article “Misinformation is more than just bad facts: How and why people spread rumors is key to understanding how false information travels and takes root.” published in The Conversation. The article has also been re-printed with permission by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Kate Starbird was featured in the Science article, “The rumor clinic: At the Center for an Informed Public, Kate Starbird tracks falsehoods and counters them in real time.” Danielle Lee Tomson (UW Center for an Informed Public), Jevin West and Emma Spiro (UW Information School), and Ryan Calo (UW School of Law & Information School) are quoted.
Kate Starbird and Danielle Lee Tomson (UW Center for an Informed Public) were featured in the New York Times article, “Disinformation Watchdogs Are Under Pressure. This Group Refuses to Stop.”
Kate Starbird was quoted in the NPR article, “Crowdsourced voting fraud claims could become grist for Republican lawsuits.”
Kate Starbird, Joey Schafer, and Danielle Lee Tomson (UW Center for an Informed Public) were quoted in the InvestigateWest article, “The UW is trying to weather a storm of setbacks for misinformation researchers.” Mert Bayar (UW Center for an Informed Public) was mentioned.
October 25, 2024
Gary Hsieh received a $100K Google Academic Research Award for “Combating Health Misinformation with LLM-Powered Living Summaries.” Funded under the Trust & Safety focus area, this project addresses the decline in public confidence in health science due to the spread of health misinformation. The project will use AI to help synthesize existing health research and to design trustworthy interfaces to communicate the current state of science. Feedback from patients and navigators will help assess trust and explore the use of these summaries for improving health communication.
Emma McDonnell and Leah Findlater had a paper, “Envisioning Collective Communication Access: A Theoretically-Grounded Review of Captioning Literature from 2013-2023,” published in The 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’24).
Adrian Rodriguez, Nisha Devasia, Michelle Pei, and Julie A. Kientz had a paper, “Towards Construction-Oriented Play for Vision-Diverse People,” published in The 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’24).
Cecilia Aragon, Bernease Herman (UW eScience Institute), and Nisha Devasia, with co-authors Sun Yoon, Sarah Evans, and Tianna Miles (University of North Texas), had a paper, “Responsibility and Care in AI/ML Education: A Collaborative Approach to Ethical Awareness,” published in the Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
Brett Halperin and Rebecca Michelson, with co-author Ian Gonsher (Brown University), published a paper, “Prototyping Jewish Ritual Objects: Wearable Affordances for Intention and Connection,” in the Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium.
Kate Starbird published an opinion piece, “I’ve been studying misinformation for a decade — here are the rumours to watch out for on US election day,” in Nature. This article has also been re-printed with permission in Scientific American.
Kate Starbird was also quoted in the CNBC article, “How trolls, lawsuits caused 'trust and safety winter' before election.”
October 18, 2024
Hannah Twigg-Smith and Nadya Peek with co-authors Yuecheng Peng (UW HCI Master’s program) and Emily Whiting (Boston University) had a paper, “What’s in a cable? Abstracting Knitting Design Elements with Blended Raster/Vector Primitives,” published in the Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
David Ribes and Janet Vertesi (Princeton University) contributed a chapter to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies titled “Digital methods in STS: continuities, discontinuities, and reconfigurations.”
Kate Starbird was interviewed on The Lawfare Institute podcast “Lies and Rumors After Hurricanes Helene and Milton.”
October 11, 2024
Sean Munson and co-authors Shaan Chopra (UW CSE), Lisa Orii (UW CSE), Katherine Juarez (UW CSE), Nussara Tieanklin (UW CSE), and James Fogarty (UW CSE), had a paper, “Menopause Legacies: Designing to Record and Share Experiences of Menopause Across Generations,” accepted to the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
Brett Halperin with co-authors Robert B. Markum (University of Michigan), Franzisca Maas and Sara Wolf (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), Caroline Claisse (Newcastle University), and Elizabeth Buie (Independent researcher), had a paper “Navigating Intersections of Religion/Spirituality and Human-Computer Interaction” published in NordiCHI '24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
Laura Jo Swartley, with undergraduate researchers Najmo Abdi (UW Education major) and Monica Hniang Dawt Chin and Dylon Ongwiseth (UW Environmental Studies majors), presented on their long-term research about lived experiences in environmental learning, at the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences annual conference: Cultivating Courage for our Collective Future. Their presentation in the Education for Sustainability track was entitled “I’m still thinking about land as...witnessing"- Relational reflection and constructive hope-building among environmental learners.”
Kate Starbird is quoted in the Reuters article, “US officials struggle to quash Hurricane Helene conspiracy theories” and is mentioned in “A new director takes up the fight at UW Center for an Informed Public” by the Seattle Times.
Shana Hirsch is quoted in the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound (EoPS) article “How eDNA is changing the way scientists track species in Puget Sound.”
October 4, 2024
Nisha Devasia and Jin Ha Lee (UW Information School) published “The role of narrative in misinformation games” in the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review.
Melinda McClure Haughey with co-authors Rachel Moran-Prestridge (UW CIP) and Emma S. Spiro (UW Information School) published a blog post, “Recommendations for journalists covering election rumors in 2024.”
Kate Starbird, Joseph S. Schafer, and Adiza Awwal with co-authors Ashlyn B. Aske (UW Law), Danielle Lee Tomson (UW CIP), Stephen Prochaska (UW Information School), Rachel Moran-Prestridge (UW CIP) and Michael Grass (UW CIP) published a blog post, “What to expect when we’re electing: An object-oriented framework for pre-election rumors.”
Daniela Rosner will join Erin McElroy (UW Geography) and Manissa Maharawal (American University) at Town Hall on Saturday, October 5, 2024 for a discussion of McElroy’s book, “How Silicon Valley's Tactics Spread to Postsocialist Romania.”
Cecilia Aragon presented "From Fear to Freedom: How a Tech Visionary Overcame Fear to Soar" on October 3, 2024, hosted by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), Aerospace Career Enhancement (ACE), a non-profit that supports the development of the aerospace workforce in Washington state.
September 27, 2024
Danli Luo has been named to MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 list. Danli was recognized in the Climate and Energy sector for her work building a biodegradable robot that makes aerial seeding more effective. Details of the project, conducted by Danli and her collaborators, are included in “Autonomous self-burying seed carriers for aerial seeding,” published by Nature in 2023.
Shana Hirsch and Ryan Kelly (UW School of Marine and Environmental Affairs), with co-authors Neha Acharya-Patel, Phyllis Akua Amamoo, Giomar H. Borrero-Pérez, Ni Kadek Dita Cahyani, Joape G. M. Ginigini, Kaleonani K. C. Hurley, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Mark Louie Lopez, Ntanganedzeni Mapholi, Koffi Nouho Ouattara, Diana A. Pazmiño, Yoshimi Rii, Fabiano Thompson, Sophie von der Heyden, Mrinalini Watsa, Vanessa Yepes-Narvaez, and Elizabeth Andruszkiewicz Allan, published “Centering accessibility, increasing capacity, and fostering innovation in the development of international eDNA standards” in Metabarcoding and Metagenomics.
Mark Haselkorn and David Ribes, with co-authors Tam K. Dao, Kenneth M. Evans, Michael D. Shannon, Christopher Bronk, Claudia Neuhauser, Evan Roberts, and Tommy Shih, released a workshop report “Responsible Collaboration Through Appropriate Research Security: A Workshop To Discuss and Study the Emergent Discipline of Research on Research Security” which offers a summary of the workshop of the same name held at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in May 2024.
Megan Moldestad and Christian Helfrich (UW School of Public Health), with co-authors Ekaterina Anderson, Julian Brunner, Sherry Ball, Jay Orlander, Seppo Rinne, and George Sayre, published “User Experiences of Transitioning From a Homegrown Electronic Health Record to a Vendor-Based Product in the Department of Veterans Affairs: Qualitative Findings From a Mixed Methods Evaluation” in JMIR Formative Research.
Os Keyes published “Wondrous Transformations: A Maverick Physician, the Science of Hormones, and the Birth of the Transgender Revolution, Alison Li” in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
Kate Starbird was a panelist for “Addressing Researcher Harassment: A Fireside Chat and Panel Discussion to Launch New Researcher Support Tools” held September 20, 2024, hosted by the Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics (IDDP) at George Washington University. The event consisted of two panels and featured “testimony from researchers who have lived through being the target of… harassment and expert discussion on combating the alarming trend.” The first panel included Renée DiResta (author) and Kate Starbird; the second panel included Alex Abdo (Columbia University), Will Creeley (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)), and Mary Anne Franks (George Washington University). Both panels were moderated by Brandy Zadrozny, senior reporter at NBC News.
Shana Hirsch was a panelist for “Environmental DNA for Oceans: White House Strategies, International Standards, and Critical Perspectives” held September 25, 2024, hosted by Ocean Nexus and sponsored by The Nippon Foundation. This panel explored “the Biden-Harris administration’s ocean science and justice policies and how they relate to eDNA.” The expert panel also included Yoshitaka Ota (Ocean Nexus & University of Rhode Island), Amelia Moore (University of Rhode Island), and Elaine Shen (NOAA & NSF).
Niharthi Muddada, a fellow in the UW Population Health Initiative’s 2024 Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Program, presented project findings in a campus-wide event at the end of the summer.
Sourojit Ghosh was quoted in “Here's How Generative AI Depicts Queer People” in Wired on April 2, 2024.
Kate Starbird was mentioned in “How Disinformation Research Came Under Fire: Academic and industry support has retreated amid a GOP assault” in the November-December 2024 issue of Mother Jones.