Rankings & Fast Facts
Fast Facts
2100+ Students from 52 Countries
42% Female Student Body
31% of Students from Underrepresented Groups
Located just outside Washington, DC
46 Active Research Grants
2 ACM Fellows
2 LJ/ALISE Excellence in Teaching Awardees
6 NSF or IMLS Career Grants
National Rankings
#2 in USA
Master of Library and Information Science Online
(TheBestSchools.org)
#4 in USA
Master of Library and Information Science
(US News & World Report)
#9 in USA
Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction
(Value Colleges)
#3 in USA
University of Maryland as a Public University
(Princeton Review)
Faculty Honors |
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UMD Research Communicator Impact Award LJ/ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award Library Journal Mover and Shaker Award Emmett Leahy Award UMD CMNS Distinguished Research Scientist Award ACM Distinguished Member Status LJ/ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award ACM Distinguished Member Status Inaugural Rachel Olivero Accessibility Innovation Award (NFB MD) Library Journal Mover and Shaker Award Society of American Archivists (SAA) Council Exemplary Service Award |
YALSA Outstanding Achievement Award UMD BBI Virtual Seed Grant Symposium Awardee 2021 Library Journal Movers and Shakers 2020 SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award 2020 ACM SIGACCESS Award (Special Interest Groups on Accessible Computing) for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility) Student’s Choice Teaching Award The Instructional Innovation Award UMD Graduate School Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards for 2021 ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition Award
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iSchool’s Teaching and Excellence Awards |
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Undergraduate Students’ Choice Teaching Award Graduate Students’ Choice Teaching Award Instructional Innovation Award |
Faculty Distinguished Grants |
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NSF Career Award NSF Career Award NSF Career Award NSF Career Award NSF Career Award NSF Career Award NIDILRR: Inclusive ICT Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center Yahoo Faculty Research Award Google Faculty Research Award Minerva Grant: Impact of Emotions in Social Media Sharing Fulbright Specialist Award: Library Services in Kyrgyzstan NSF Grant: Building an Augmented Reality at UMD UMD Catalyst Award: Advancing Machine Translation Systems National Fed. for the Blind (NFB) Fellowship Award: Developing Accessibility-Focused Curriculum National Academy of Ed. Postdoctoral Fellowship: Critical Education Research |
NSF Grant: Developing Computational Models to Detect Clickbait IMLS Early Career Award Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Plannning Grant Maryland Innovation Grant Award Laura Bush 21st Librarian Grant IMLS National Leadership Grant: Capturing Computational Thinking Literacy Development in Public Libraries Army Research Office Grant IMLS Grant: Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) NSF Convergence Accelerator Grant NSF Grant NSF Grant Adobe Grant |