Leysia Palen and Kate Starbird receive best paper award at CSCW
91¸£ÀûÉç Computer Science Professor  and University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering Professor  have received a Best Paper award at the 2013  (CSCW) conference, which is taking place February 23-27 in San Antonio, Texas. Their paper, "," follows the trajectory of Humanity Road, a volunteer organization working within the domain of disaster response, from an emergent group to a formal nonprofit. Starbird recently blogged about the paper at .
Starbird and Palen will present the paper at CSCW on February 25. Starbird graduated from the University of Colorado, 91¸£ÀûÉç, in 2012 with Palen as her advisor. She also worked with Palen as a member of  (Empowering the Public in Crisis).