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MLIS Students Get Hands-on Experience Digitizing Documents
June 4, 2020 | Morgan AdleMLIS students specializing in Archives and Digital Curation seek hands-on experience digitizing historic material.
Alumni Spotlight: Law Librarian, Community Volunteer, and Ardent Reader – Christine Glaab, MLS, 75′
May 29, 2020 | iSchool NewsChristine Glaab received her Master of Library Science (MLS) in 1975 from the College of Library and Information Science (CLIS), which …
Getting Personal: How People Who are Blind Can Leverage AI to Access the Visual World
May 29, 2020 | Hayleigh MooreThe Teachable Object Recognizer mobile application uses AI and machine learning to help access the visual world.
Two UMD iSchool Faculty Members Join FAS COVID-19 Task Force
May 29, 2020 | iSchool NewsThe Federation of American Scientists has assembled teams of world-class experts to examine and advise on various facets of the COVID …
Medium: What If Blind People Wear a Camera That Can Detect You in Public Spaces? (by Kyungjun Lee)
May 29, 2020 | Mia K. HinckleA research team from the UMD HCIL lab examine the social acceptance of wearable cameras.
Alumni Spotlight: Keys to Succeeding in the Forensic Investigation Field – Pranali Shetty, MIM ‘15
May 29, 2020 | iSchool NewsForensic investigation is a challenging field where information plays a key role, from cyber threat investigations to extracting eviden …
UMD iSchool Awards $109K to 2019-20 Outstanding Students
May 29, 2020 | iSchool NewsThe UMD iSchool is pleased to share the full list of 2019-2020 college scholarship and award winners, totaling over $109K in support t …
PhD students Gagan Jindal and Priya Kumar Receive Prestigious Graduate School Fellowships/Awards
May 28, 2020 | iSchool NewsCelebrating the excellence of graduate students and providing valuable financial support.
Student-Athletes’ Use of Their Performance Data; Evaluating Tech to Regulate Anxiety – UMD iSchool Papers Awarded at CHI 2020
May 21, 2020 | iSchool NewsThe ACM annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) is considered the most prestigious in the field of human–comput …