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Lessons from COVID: INFO’s Unexpected Remote Learning Revolution
March 27, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonHuman-centered approaches to teaching and learning remotely endure, improving access
Instead of regulators playing catch-up, AI developers could help create safer systems if market-based incentives were put in place, UMD researchers say. Illustration by iStock.
Maryland Today: UMD Research Sends AI Safety to Market
March 27, 2025 | Maryland Today Staff | UMDINFO’s Abdirisak Mohamed joins UMD researchers in designing a market-driven approach to AI safety
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TechBridge: Uniting Generations Through Technology and Mentorship
March 24, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonINFO students collaborate with seniors on projects ranging from mobile app development to business plans
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UX Design to the Rescue: Transforming ER Visits and Other Involuntary Experiences
March 6, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonINFO Assistant Professor Caro Williams-Pierce is developing design recommendations as a member of Prince George's County’s ER Task Fo …
A UMD-led multidisciplinary team is developing a large-scale, open-source dataset for AI model training tools focused on K–12 math education that aims to increase accuracy and representation in educational AI systems. Photo by Adobe Stock.
Maryland Today: UMD Researchers to Build AI Database to Improve Math Learning Outcomes (ft. Wei Ai)
March 3, 2025 | Aleena Haroon M.P.P. ’25 | UMIACSProject Funded by $4.5M Philanthropic Grant Aims to Help Teachers, Students, Researcher and Edtech Industry
“If you ask policymakers, ‘How big is the attack surface on a state or national level?’ they would say, ‘I don’t know,’” said UMD Associate Research Professor Charles Harry. His research team used open-source tools to find the answers. Illustration by iStock.
Maryland Today: UMD Researchers Calculate Cyberattack Risk for All 50 States
February 5, 2025 | John Tucker | Maryland TodayScholars Aggregate Threats to Thousands of County Governments to Draw Conclusions
This 1900 image of the Carlisle Indian School football team includes one of Assistant Professor Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner's ancestors. She said this and the photo of her great-great-great grandmother Joaquina Nahwilet (image at bottom) is a rare example of good photo metadata; improving the tools in archival research is a primary goal of the new Indigenous archives project she's co-leading. Photo by John N. Choate/Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Maryland Today: UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives
February 4, 2025 | Laurie Robinson & Jessica WeissProject co-led by INFO and ARHU will develop tools, standards, and reparative practices to restore indigenous histories
The American flag waves in the breeze beside the NC State Memorial Belltower. At LAS, teams of industry, academic and government partners work side-by-side to enhance intelligence analysis through innovative technology. (Roger Winstead/NC State University)
News Release: LAS Announces 2025 Collaborators (ft. Cody Buntain)
February 4, 2025 | Katherine Kershaw | Laboratory for Analytic SciencesSeventeen faculty from 11 universities and three companies will conduct LAS research projects this year
