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The iSchool's Ahmer Arif will co-lead a research project that aims to reimagine how digital literacy and critical reasoning skills are taught. “Co-designing for Trust: Reimagining Online Literacies With Underserved Communities” is a multidisciplinary collaborative effort with researchers at the Moody College of Communication and the Center for an Informed Public at UW as well as other local institutions in Texas and Washington state. The research team was selected as part of the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator 2021 cohort.

Dr. Amelia Acker, an assistant professor at the iSchool, and a team of researchers are currently studying the challenges in producing and maintaining critical COVID-19 data infrastructures. Funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Acker investigates in The COVID Data Infrastructure Builders project how community membership, work practices, and technical tools serve to support knowledge production about the COVID-19 crisis.

Professor Soo Young Rieh is partnering with collaborators from two other universities to launch the IDEA Institute on Artificial intelligence (AI), a two-year project funded by a $208,142 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The institute aims to help library and information professionals to lead in planning, deploying, and implementing artificial intelligence in library settings. A diverse cohort of twenty fellows will be recruited nationwide to attend the Institute, where they will develop conceptual and practical AI knowledge and skills in a collaborative learning environment.