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Alumni Profile: From Trailblazing Librarian to Acclaimed Author: A Journey of Cultural Bridges and Academic Excellence
February 11, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonA profile of Ben Igwe, INFO’s first Black PhD graduate
“If you ask policymakers, ‘How big is the attack surface on a state or national level?’ they would say, ‘I don’t know,’” said UMD Associate Research Professor Charles Harry. His research team used open-source tools to find the answers. Illustration by iStock.
Maryland Today: UMD Researchers Calculate Cyberattack Risk for All 50 States
February 5, 2025 | John Tucker | Maryland TodayScholars Aggregate Threats to Thousands of County Governments to Draw Conclusions
This 1900 image of the Carlisle Indian School football team includes one of Assistant Professor Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner's ancestors. She said this and the photo of her great-great-great grandmother Joaquina Nahwilet (image at bottom) is a rare example of good photo metadata; improving the tools in archival research is a primary goal of the new Indigenous archives project she's co-leading. Photo by John N. Choate/Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Maryland Today: UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives
February 4, 2025 | Laurie Robinson & Jessica WeissProject co-led by INFO and ARHU will develop tools, standards, and reparative practices to restore indigenous histories
The American flag waves in the breeze beside the NC State Memorial Belltower. At LAS, teams of industry, academic and government partners work side-by-side to enhance intelligence analysis through innovative technology. (Roger Winstead/NC State University)
News Release: LAS Announces 2025 Collaborators (ft. Cody Buntain)
February 4, 2025 | Katherine Kershaw | Laboratory for Analytic SciencesSeventeen faculty from 11 universities and three companies will conduct LAS research projects this year
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Capturing How Blind Pedestrians Navigate Their Environments to Expand Accessibility
January 28, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonResearchers created a motion dataset to train autonomous vehicles on how blind individuals move
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PROGRESS Issues First-Ever Grants to Advance Innovation in Gun Violence Research
January 16, 2025 | BSOS Staff | UMDUMD's PROGRESS Initiative funds groundbreaking research projects tackling gun violence with innovation and collaboration
UMD News Release: Gov. Moore Launches $1 Billion “Capital of Quantum” Initiative Anchored by UMD
January 14, 2025 | UMD CommunicationsStrategic Partnership Aims to Cement State and Greater-D.C. Region as a World-leading Hub for Quantum Science and Innovation
