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The UMD Do Good Institute

14 Incredible Teams Selected as 2024 Do Good Challenge Semi-Finalists

March 7, 2024 | UMD Staff
INFO students Wadi Ahmed and Ruka Ayele are among the semi-finalists!
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(Video) Privacy Week SoDa Special Event: Challenges, Strategies, and Emerging Issues: Hearing from Privacy Stakeholders

February 15, 2024 | Logan Delavan-Hoover
Privacy experts speak on national data efforts
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UMD President Darryll Pines and the UMD Testudo mascott

Welcome Fall 2024 Undergrad Admits! Next Steps

January 29, 2024 | INFO Staff
Next steps for INFO College new admits, plus information for parents
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UMD INFO Faculty and Students Lead Presentations at the 2024 ALA LibLearnX Conference

January 18, 2024 | INFO Staff
Library practitioners, leaders, and researchers from around the country will gather at this annual event
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Photo of Dr. Jen Golbeck

Maryland Today: ‘Beyond the Field’ Homecoming Address Takes on Promise—and Risks—of AI (ft. Jen Golbeck)

October 10, 2023 | Maryland Today Staff | UMD
Systems Are Subject to Same Biases, Truthfulness Challenges as Society at Large
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ALA president Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada

(Video) ALA President Offers Advice for Future Librarians on Handling Banned Books

May 4, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff
During the talk, attendees received advice tailored to both students planning to become library and information science practitioners a …
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(Video) SoDa Symposium: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Social Data Science Methods

April 21, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff
INFO Professor Jen Golbeck and JPSM instructor Jen Romano spoke on a panel moderated by INFO Professor Wayne Lutters.
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(Video) Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Coercion in Cyberspace–A Model of Extortion via Encryption

April 7, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff
The presentation highlights the human traits and abilities that maximize human-machine teaming effectiveness.