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The Crucial Role of LIS in Information Schools Amid Technological and Societal Shifts

April 2, 2024 | Laurie Robinson

How LIS research and scholarship can remain the lifeblood of Information Schools

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Photo of Hornbake Plaza on the UMD College Park Campus, home to the INFO College

UMD INFO College Faculty Awarded for Research Excellence

April 2, 2024 | UMD INFO Staff

14 INFO faculty members are to be honored at the 2024 UMD Research Excellence Celebration

(Video) CAFe presents: The Ambivalences of the Unfixed

March 22, 2024 | Logan Delavan-Hoover

U-Arizona professor speaks on archival theory

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How to Make Critical Decision-Making Systems Fairer and Build Trust in AI

March 22, 2024 | Laurie Robinson

Researchers from UMD and GW are creating a new measure to make AI systems involved in parole decisions and loan approvals fairer

Meg Medina & Allister Chang

(Video) MacLeod Lecture: Advocating for Books, Children and Imagination in a Time of Division: a Conversation with Meg Medina

March 15, 2024 | Logan Delavan-Hoover

Newberry winner speaks on children’s literature

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(Video) SoDa Seed Grant Series: Socio-Algorithmic Foundations of Trustworthy News Recommendations

March 12, 2024 | Logan Delavan-Hoover

Privacy experts speak on national data efforts

OTTRS Speaker Series

(Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: The X-Culture Global Research Platform

March 8, 2024 | Logan Delavan-Hoover

International business professor shares insights about a crowdsourcing platform for business challenges, talent recruitment, and cultur …

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The UMD Do Good Institute

14 Incredible Teams Selected as 2024 Do Good Challenge Semi-Finalists

March 7, 2024 | UMD Staff

INFO students Wadi Ahmed and Ruka Ayele are among the semi-finalists!