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May 19, 2026

Jevin West and Co-Investigator Carl Bergstrom received an  of $49,394 for their project “Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Learning to Learn in an LLM World.” 

Ben Lee and Co-Investigators Kevin Lin, Chris Holstrom, Kathryn Pursch Cornforth, Suh Young Choi, and Megumi Kivuva received an  of $50,000 for their project “A Framework for AI-Accelerated Community-Engaged Learning in Undergraduate Data, AI, and Computing Courses.” 

Ben Lee received an  in recognition of his Longreads essay titled “”.&Բ;

Belén Saldías was selected to be one of the inaugural recipients of the .

Shahan Ali Memon (PhD Student) and co-authors Yunze Xiao, Gordon Dai, Jen-Tse Huang, Maarten Sap, and Mona Diab’s paper titled “” was accepted at the

é&Բ;í and co-author Irti Haqs (MLIS Student)’s paper titled “” was accepted to

Ben Lee and co-authors Ying-Hsiang Huang, Claire Gong, Shreya Shaji, Alison Yan, Leslie Harka (MLIS alumni), Albert Du, Anjali Gopal, Samuel Klein, Shannon Shen, Mark Phillips, Trevor Owens, and Kyle Deeds’s paper titled “,” was accepted to the  
 
Saloni Dash (PhD Student) and co-authors Amelie Reymond, Emma Spiro, and Aylin Caliskan’s paper titled “” was accepted to the

Melanie Walsh published an essay titled “” for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Richard Lewei Huang and Yufeng Zhao’s project Banner Depot 2000 will be an exhibition at the . The project is a multilingual collection of historical web banner ads meant to function as a computational poetry project, where visitors can compose found poetry from individual banner ad frames. 

Stacey Wedlake, Francisco Garcia Ortiz, Honsby Pacheco, and Brenda Heindl presented the webinar "" for InfoPeople, a public library professional development platform, as part of an IMLS-funded project.

Tessa Rose Campbell (PhD Student) gave an invited presentation, "Wearing our Mother Earth: Indigenous Fashion as Relationship and Responsibility," for an Indigenous Fashion Show at Everett Community College honoring Earth Day, hosted by the American Indian Student Association.

Tessa Rose Campbell (PhD Student) gave an invited presentation, "Indigenizing Library and Information Science: A Native Scholar's Pathway Through Academia," at the

Jevin West gave an invited talk titled “” at the University of Toronto for their Absolutely Interdisciplinary annual event. 

Chirag Shah was quoted in an article titled “,” published in AI Business.