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Astrid Gabriella Tagne Meleu, University of Maryland, College Park. Photo by Lisa Helfert.
Press Release: UMD Undergraduate Student Wins Prestigious U.S. Department of State Fellowship
Astrid Gabriella Tagne Meleu, BS of Information Science student at the UMD INFO College, will join the Foreign Affairs Information Tech …
Press Release: UMD INFO’s Allison Jennings-Roche Named 2024 LJ Mover & Shaker
LJ’s Class of 2024 Movers & Shakers highlights 50 individuals helping move library work forward
(Video) CAFe Presents: Imagining Decolonial Archival Futures
Featuring historian and archivist Krista McCracken and research analyst Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey
ABC-7 News: University of Maryland Launches Interdisciplinary Institute on Artificial Intelligence (ft. Sheena Erete)
INFO Professor Sheena Erete will become the Associate Director of Research at UMD’s new Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Ins …
Data, Death, and What Comes Next
A scholar outlines how to respect the digital traces the dead leave behind

Francena Bean-Waters of Baltimore and Tech Extension Educator Blaise Brennan '18 share a high-five after working through a smartphone operation question together. Below, Brennan explains the basics of phones and the internet as part of a class sponsored by the Marylanders Online program. Photos by John T. Consoli
Maryland Today: UMD, State Combine to Get ‘Marylanders Online’
$6M Program Provides Digital Access, Literacy From Baltimore to Rural Areas
(Video) CAFe Presents: Equity in Public Access to Research Results; Case Study from National Agriculture Library
Investigations into open access to research

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Discover Magazine: What Does The Future of Natural History Museums Look Like? (ft. Diana Marsh)
INFO Professor Diana Marsh contextualizes the history of museums in the modern world

Roots Africa photo by Edwin Remsberg; Bitcamp photo by John T. Consoli; Public Art photo by David Andrews
Maryland Today: $460K Awarded to Faculty, Staff, Students From New Do Good Campus Fund (ft. Galina Reitz)
Inaugural grant recipients’ projects span campus, extend into local, state, global communities