Awards and Rankings

As chair of the board, University of Maryland iSchool MLS alumna Mary Hastler will continue Maryland Humanities' racial equity work.

Dr. Jonathan Lazar was named the winner of the 2020 ACM SIGACCESS Award (Special Interest Groups on Accessible Computing) for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility. It is the highest award given by ACM SIGACCESS. 

Choe, Kacorri, and A. Lazar aim to examine how older adults can personalize activity trackers through teachable interfaces to capture meaningful daily activities.

Dr. Harry will use the grant to create a web application for his cybersecurity framework that provides an analytic approach to assessing risk.

Dr. Ana Ndumu, Dr. Mega Subramaniam, and PhD Student Shandra Morhouse receive awards for their research work in library and information science.

Dr. David Weintrop receives $70K award to integrate computing and the powerful ideas of computer science into classrooms.

UMD Human-Computer Interaction Lab’s (HCIL) 2019-2020 accomplishments

Celebrating the excellence of graduate students and providing valuable financial support.

The UMD iSchool is pleased to share the full list of 2019-2020 college scholarship and award winners, totaling over $109K in support to 65 students.