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(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Supporting Children’s Online Information Discovery
April 6, 2022 | iSchool News StaffDr. Jerry Alan Fails and Dr. Sole Pera present CAST, a new search engine interface developed to empower emergent searchers and improve …
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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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Dean's Lecture Series: Dr. Debbie Chachra
(Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: Rocks, Clouds, and Lightning: Energy, Materiality, and Infrastructural Systems
March 3, 2022 | iSchool News StaffDr. Debbie Chachra presents how renewable energy has the potential to transform the material world.
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Celebrate Women’s History Month From Anywhere
March 1, 2022 | iSchool News StaffExplore the National Women's History Museum's collection of virtual exhibits and learn about trailblazing women, past and present.
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(Video) SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science
February 15, 2022 | iSchool News StaffResearchers from UMD and Cornell University discuss the ethical dilemmas in social data science and how ethnographic studies can help g …
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Seven iSchool Undergraduates Join UMD’s First Sprinternship™
February 8, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreThe students worked to create solutions to cybersecurity, IT, and other tech challenges while exploring career opportunities in informa …
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Black History Month in Maryland, Get Involved
February 1, 2022 | UMD iSchool StaffThis month, UMD and MD Libraries honor black history with public events, discussions, film festivals, resources. Here is a compiled lis …
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UMD iSchool, CMNS & I4C Celebrate Break Through Tech DC Partnership to Foster Diversity in Computing
December 10, 2021 | Hayleigh Moore70+ UMD faculty, staff, and students converged at this hybrid event to celebrate a commitment to improving diversity and inclusion in c …
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ASSETS 2021 celebrated 50 years of its sponsor, ACM SIGACCESS, including a 1970s-inspired logo designed by Rachel Wood, a Trace-affiliated PhD student in the UMD iSchool.
Trace Faculty and Students Contribute to a Successful Virtual ASSETS 2021
November 3, 2021 | iSchool NewsTrace faculty and students contribute work and play key leadership roles at ASSETS 2021, which marks landmark 50th anniversaries for bo …