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Café Meetup on Portage Bay

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 29, 2021
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CSCW'21 Honorable Mention and Diversity and Inclusion Award

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 14, 2021
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New $2m Project Sidewalk NSF Grant

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 01, 2021
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Makeability Lab Welcomes Four New Members

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Sep 29, 2021
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Dhruv Jain Receives Microsoft Dissertation Grant

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Aug 18, 2021
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Dhruv Jain Selected for Google-CMD-IT LEAP Alliance Fellowship

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Aug 05, 2021
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Liang He Receives Bob Bandes Memorial Honorable Mention Teaching Award

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Jun 14, 2021
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Froehlich Selected for Outstanding Faculty Award

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Jun 07, 2021
A picture of Manaswi Saha's General Exam showing a slide that reads "People and Infrastructure Problem: Socio-political Environmental Analysis" and states a research question: "How do stakeholders assess urban accessibility and how do they make decisions?"

Manaswi Saha Passes General Exam

BY Jon E. Froehlich • May 28, 2021
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Dhruv Jain Receives Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant

BY Jon E. Froehlich • May 24, 2021
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Virtual Lab Hangout with Skribbl.io!

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Jan 21, 2021
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Liang He Passes General Exam

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Dec 18, 2020

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