News: Faculty & Staff

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UMD TRACE Center is Leading the Way in Researching and Designing Tools for Digital Accessibility During COVID-19

July 8, 2020 | Hayleigh Moore
The UMD iSchool Trace Research and Development Center is taking up the challenge of accessibility work during the pandemic.

Medium: Devices All The Way Down

June 22, 2020 | Niklas Elmqvist
Professor and Director of the HCIL, Niklas Elmqvist, reflects on his NSF Career Project.

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Medium: HCIL 2019-2020 News Roundup

June 22, 2020 | Huaishu Peng
UMD Human-Computer Interaction Lab’s (HCIL) 2019-2020 accomplishments

Press Release: Naeemul Hassan Awarded $228,000 NSF Grant For Collaborative Project

June 22, 2020 | UMD Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Dr. Naeemul Hassan and collaborators aim to design and develop computational models to automatically detect video clickbait.

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David Weintrop Awarded Prestigious National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship

June 18, 2020 | Chris Samoray
Dr. David Weintrop receives $70K award to integrate computing and the powerful ideas of computer science into classrooms.

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School Library Journal: COVID-19 Is an Opportunity to Rethink Youth Librarianship | Reimagining Libraries, featuring Mega Subramaniam

June 12, 2020 | Mega Subramaniam
Discusses how libraries have adapted to continue serving their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry