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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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iSchool Professor Dr. Tamara Clegg Stars in Nickelodeon Commercial
February 14, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreClegg is an expert in youth experience and digital practices working with Nickelodeon to enhance its online learning platform, Noggin.
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PhD Alumni Spotlight: Science is a Social Process – Pengyi Zhang, ‘10
February 9, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreConnecting people with technology to enhance decision making, foster collaborative learning, and create more inclusive online communiti …
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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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Social Data Science Major to Debut in February
February 2, 2022 | Rachael GrahameNew B.S. degree program to teach students how to collect, analyze data for fast-growing fields.
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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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NPR: TikTok creator makes the recipes she finds on gravestones
January 28, 2022 | UMD iSchool StaffJournalist Scott Simon talks with iSchool graduate student Rosie Grant about the food she's cooked from recipes found on gravestones.
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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 ZogbyThe paper by iSchool PhD student Alisha Pradhan, iSchool assistant professor Dr. Amanda Lazar, and University of Washington’s Dr. Lea …
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CAP students in the Expanded Arts Summer Job Program enjoy a lunch break, circa 1970 (Photo courtesy of Robert Breck Chapman Photographs at Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore)
Uncovering the Buried History of Baltimore’s Arts and Culture
January 27, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreThe Inheritance Baltimore program is one of the many ways MLIS alumna, Angela Koukoui, is providing better access to her community's hi …