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Frias-Martinez Joins UMD Effort Focused on Food and Nutrition Security
January 7, 2023 | UMIACSThe multidisciplinary team received a $750K NSF grant to address the challenges of food security in Maryland.

100 Women Making AI Ethical and Accessible
December 19, 2022 | Laurie RobinsonAssociate Professor Jessica Vitak made the list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.

UMD Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Pretrial Detention in Criminal Cases Across MD
December 13, 2022 | Laurie RobinsonAccording to lead investigator, Dr. Zubin Jelveh, there is still a gap in understanding how decisions are made about who should be detained.

Project Aims to Convey Big Data With Sound and Touch
December 6, 2022 | Maria Herd | UMIACSNSF-Funded Research Would Expand Employment, Education Opportunities for Blind Data Users.

Congratulations to the Fall 2022 INFO College Scholarship Recipients
December 6, 2022 | Mia K. Hinckle17 students from across programs have been recognized for excellence in their work and studies.

Morphic: Advancing Social Equity Through Digital Inclusion
November 10, 2022 | Liz ZogbyA growing pool of users at libraries, colleges, and job centers across the US and in Canada have the opportunity to take advantage of Morphic, a …

A farmer tends crops in Uganda, an area where bias in AI algorithms monitoring global crop health might misinterpret data due to a lack of knowledge of local growing methods. Photo by Nuno Almeida, Dreamstime.com
UMD Co-leads $750K NSF, Amazon Project to Tackle AI Bias in Mapping
July 20, 2022 | Rachael Grahame | Maryland TodayINFO College’s Dr. Sergii Skakun will play a key role in building the system that could enable fairer, safer decisions on resource distribution

Two UMD Info College PhD Students Awarded ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellowships
July 15, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreThis year’s Fellows will work to expand social justice curricula and increase support for doctoral students and faculty in LIS fields.

Jane Robbins (left) and Mary Keefer (right), 1988. Image courtesy of the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Digital Collection.
Alumni Profile: Jane Robbins, PhD ‘72
May 2, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreThe iSchool catches up with the its first PhD graduate as she shares her legacy as one of the most influential leaders in library science educati …