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Preparing for the Big Day

March 4, 2022 |
Guidelines for defending your Ph.D. proposal or dissertation.
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Celebrate Women’s History Month From Anywhere

March 1, 2022 | iSchool News Staff
Explore the National Women's History Museum's collection of virtual exhibits and learn about trailblazing women, past and present.
Data Visualization

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Expanding the Possibilities for Accessible Data Visualization

February 24, 2022 | Liz Zogby
iSchool professor and Trace affiliate faculty Dr. Niklas Elmqvist leads a team to continue work on accessible data visualization and to …
Alphabet Inc.'s defunct Sidewalk Labs: Quayside project, Toronto.

Image: From Alphabet Inc.'s defunct Sidewalk Labs: Quayside project, Toronto.

REAL LIFE MAG: Seeing Without Looking

February 17, 2022 | M.R. Sauter
Sidewalk Toronto is dead, but its legacy shows there are more ways to violate one’s privacy than collecting one’s image.
UMD’s Social Data Science Center (SoDa) on Feb. 8

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(Video) SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science

February 15, 2022 | iSchool News Staff
Researchers from UMD and Cornell University discuss the ethical dilemmas in social data science and how ethnographic studies can help g …
Dr. Tamara Clegg

Dr. Tamara Clegg alongside Rubble from one of Nickelodeon’s newest shows, PAW Patrol.

iSchool Professor Dr. Tamara Clegg Stars in Nickelodeon Commercial

February 14, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore
Clegg is an expert in youth experience and digital practices working with Nickelodeon to enhance its online learning platform, Noggin.
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Social Data Science Major to Debut in February

February 2, 2022 | Rachael Grahame
New B.S. degree program to teach students how to collect, analyze data for fast-growing fields.
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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 Zogby
The paper by iSchool PhD student Alisha Pradhan, iSchool assistant professor Dr. Amanda Lazar, and University of Washington’s Dr. Lea …
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HR Brew: Employee surveillance is exploding with remote work (feat. Jessica Vitak)

January 27, 2022 | UMD iSchool Staff
Journalist Sam Blum examines how the expansion of worker surveillance runs the risk of shattering employees’ trust.