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AIC: UMD Student Project Featured on Japanese Television
April 11, 2022 | iSchool News StaffThe students' research follows second generation Japanese American who was forcibly removed from his home after the attacks on Pearl Ha …
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Blog This: Transforming How Students Engage and Learn from Visualization Research
March 28, 2022 | iSchool News StaffWriter Alexandra Khoo chats with iSchool Professor Niklas Elmqvist about the origins of his popular data visualization blog, VisUMD.
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“Drawing Conclusions” – Identity Formation in the Digital Age
March 11, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreiSchool undergraduate student uses art to present her research into technology’s influence on ethnic identity formation.
Maryland Giving Day – March 9, 2022
March 8, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreRead about one student's inspirational story and how Giving Day is helped her pursue a degree in information science.
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MLIS Alumnae Use Instagram to Amplify Black Excellence in Librarianship
March 3, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreRead about two alumnae who are creating spaces for current and aspiring librarians and authors of color.
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 …
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.
Precious Abujana (left) and Andrea N Gutmann Fuentes (right)
iSchool Students Precious Abujana and Andrea Gutmann Fuentes awarded 2021 ALA Spectrum Scholarships
October 14, 2021 | Hayleigh MooreAbujana and Fuentes are among the American Library Association’s 60 Spectrum Scholarship award recipients for 2021.
Dr. Jonathan Lazar Delivering a Lecture on Digital Accessibility
Jonathan Lazar Named Director of the Trace R&D Center
October 11, 2021 | Liz ZogbyAfter 50 years, Trace Founder and Director Gregg Vanderheiden passes the gavel to a new director to carry the Trace legacy of accessibi …