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Maryland Today: Unexploded Ordnance Is Scattered Across Ukraine’s Front Lines. UMD Researchers Are Mapping Hot Spots With AI. (ft. Sergii Skakun)
July 19, 2023 | MD Today StaffShells, Rockets Fired in Wake of Russia’s Invasion Could Kill for Decades if Left in Place
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Health Care Barriers: Screening and Referral for Social Determinants of Health in Maternity Care
July 17, 2023 | Olivia BorgulaA Q&A with INFO Associate Professor Amelia Gibson
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Tackling Childhood Literacy: A Grand Challenge
July 14, 2023 | INFO StaffAn institutional grant addresses skills that go beyond the classroom
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Five Projects Awarded the Inaugural SoDa Seed Grant
July 12, 2023 | Info StaffFunding provided to projects that seek to solve social media misinformation, vulnerable community infrastructure, and racial injustice
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A Community Archive Preserves the History of a 130-year-old African American Community
July 10, 2023 | Laurie RobinsonLakeland is immortalized in digital form with help from MITH and INFO.
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IEEE Spectrum: A Wearable Robotic Assistant That’s All Over You (ft. Ge Gao)
June 30, 2023 | CMNS StaffCalico is a little robot that can zip around your clothing to help you out.
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New App to Empower Baltimoreans to Advocate for Better Public Transit
June 29, 2023 | Laurie RobinsonINFO and BSOS are working on a toolkit to help determine the pain points Baltimoreans experience on their commutes.
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Researchers Use Deep Learning, VHR Satellite Imagery to Map Artillery Craters in Eastern Ukraine
June 29, 2023 | GEOG DepartmentINFO Assistant Professor Sergii Skakun examines detecting and mapping artillery craters in Eastern Ukraine.
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Weighing in on the Federal Case Against Donald Trump (ft. Jason R. Baron)
June 22, 2023 | INFO StaffINFO Professor of the Practice Jason R. Baron is interviewed by various news outlets regarding the Presidential Records Act.