The University of Washington Information School is well-represented at this year鈥檚 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) , with several faculty members and Ph.D. students contributing papers and posters and participating in workshops and panel discussions.
The Oct. 22-Nov. 1 meeting, a top international conference of research on people, information and technology, is being held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Assistant Professor Nic Weber will lead a workshop, on Oct. 22. Weber will be joined by colleagues from five other universities.
Associate Professor Chirag Shah will be among the co-leaders of an Oct. 30 workshop, The workshop will train scholars in writing successful grant proposals for funders such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, Amazon and Google.
and several other iSchoolers will lead discussions of research papers. They include Ph.D. candidate , with co-authors including recent Master of Science in Information Management alum Caihong Huang and Professor Carole Palmer; Ph.D. student ; Ph.D. student with co-authors including Ph.D. candidate W.E. King and Associate Professor Jin Ha Lee; recent Master of Library and Information Science alum with co-authors Palmer and Bree Norlander, an iSchool data scientist; and recent Ph.D. alum with Lee and other co-authors.
Weber will participate in two panels, one on and the other on Professor Michelle Martin will take part in a panel on diversity, equity and inclusion issues in information science, called
Ph.D. students Yvette Iribe Ramirez and Mina Tari will present a poster at the event titled, 鈥淚 Find Myself Wondering Why I Wanted to Do This: Identifying Barriers for Students of Color in the LIS Field.鈥