News: Awards & Rankings
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Improving Fairness and Trust in AI Used for College Admissions and Language Translation
April 15, 2022 | Tom VentsiasiSchool Assistant Professor Dr. Ge Gao joins $1.6M NSF/Amazon-funded project to develop algorithms and protocols that can improve the e …
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HCIL Faculty and Students to Participate in CHI 2022
April 12, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore23 members of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab will present their research at prestigious HCI conference.
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iSchool Hosts 5th Annual Info Challenge
April 7, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreThis week-long event engaged students from across the region in cybersecurity, design, and data analytics projects to tackle real-world …
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iSchool Professor Receives $1 Million NSF CAREER Grant to Develop Data Science Curriculum
March 28, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreDr. David Weintrop will be working with D.C. Public Schools to address inequities in high school data science education.
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Maryland Giving Day – March 9, 2022
March 8, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreRead about one student's inspirational story and how Giving Day is helped her pursue a degree in information science.
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Work on the Use of Intelligent Voice Assistants by Older Adults Wins ACM TOCHI Best Paper Award
January 28, 2022 | Liz ZogbyThe paper by iSchool PhD student Alisha Pradhan, iSchool assistant professor Dr. Amanda Lazar, and University of Washington’s Dr. Lea …
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Congratulations to the Fall 2021 iSchool Scholarship Recipients
December 22, 2021 | Mia K. Hinckle16 students from across programs have been recognized for excellence in their work and studies.
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HCIL Founder Receives IEEE Test of Time Award for Treemap Research
November 15, 2021 | Hayleigh MooreThe award recognizes a conference paper from 20 years ago whose contents have had a major impact within and beyond the visualization co …
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iSchool Students Precious Abujana and Andrea Gutmann Fuentes awarded 2021 ALA Spectrum Scholarships
October 14, 2021 | Hayleigh MooreAbujana and Fuentes are among the American Library Association’s 60 Spectrum Scholarship award recipients for 2021.