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iSchool Hosts 5th Annual Info Challenge
This week-long event engaged students from across the region in cybersecurity, design, and data analytics projects to tackle real-world …
(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Supporting Children’s Online Information Discovery
Dr. Jerry Alan Fails and Dr. Sole Pera present CAST, a new search engine interface developed to empower emergent searchers and improve …
Maryland Giving Day – March 9, 2022
Read about one student's inspirational story and how Giving Day is helped her pursue a degree in information science.
Dean's Lecture Series: Dr. Debbie Chachra
(Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: Rocks, Clouds, and Lightning: Energy, Materiality, and Infrastructural Systems
Dr. Debbie Chachra presents how renewable energy has the potential to transform the material world.
Images courtesy of the National Women's History Museum
Celebrate Women’s History Month From Anywhere
Explore the National Women's History Museum's collection of virtual exhibits and learn about trailblazing women, past and present.
Illustration by Darren Garrett
(Video) SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science
Researchers from UMD and Cornell University discuss the ethical dilemmas in social data science and how ethnographic studies can help g …
Seven iSchool Undergraduates Join UMD’s First Sprinternship™
The students worked to create solutions to cybersecurity, IT, and other tech challenges while exploring career opportunities in informa …
