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MD Today: Accolades: Faculty and Staff Awards and Honors (ft. Ido Sivan-Sevilla and Gregg Vanderheiden)
February 20, 2024 |A Roundup of Recent Accomplishments

The increased sophistication of cyberattacks through social media platforms, computer hardware, smart devices and popular websites demands more care in how we engage the internet, says Associate Research Professor Charlie Harry. "At the end of the day, we should all expect the worst and have an action plan for recovery." Illustration by Valerie Morgan
Maryland Today: Your Printer May Spill All of Your Secrets (ft. Charles Harry)
January 30, 2024 | Maryland Today Staff | UMDUMD Professor Explains the Alarming Creativity of Today’s Cyberattacks—and the 5 Unlikely Places You’re Vulnerable

UMD Group Connects Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Thinkers and Leaders
January 11, 2024 | INFO StaffBringing together innovators from across academia, industry, and government

New Tool Can Help Audit Pretrial Detainment Decisions in Maryland, UMD Study Shows (ft. Zubin Jelveh)
January 10, 2024 | UMD BSOS StaffUMD BSOS + INFO faculty are determining how to make criminal justice more "just"

The Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore. (Cody Boteler)
The Baltimore Banner: Is Johns Hopkins the Bad Guy in the Patient Data Breach? Or a Victim? (ft. Ido Sivan-Sevilla)
August 16, 2023 | INFO StaffINFO Assistant Professor Ido Sivan-Sevilla provides expert commentary

Five Projects Awarded the Inaugural SoDa Seed Grant
July 12, 2023 | Info StaffFunding provided to projects that seek to solve social media misinformation, vulnerable community infrastructure, and racial injustice

(Video) SoDa Symposium: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Social Data Science Methods
April 21, 2023 | UMD INFO StaffINFO Professor Jen Golbeck and JPSM instructor Jen Romano spoke on a panel moderated by INFO Professor Wayne Lutters.

Baby Grogu on the Disney+ TV show, The Mandalorian
ARLIS Researchers Find a Way to Measure the “Cute” Factor on Social Media Content (ft. Susannah Paletz)
April 13, 2023 | UMD ARLIS StaffSocial media measurements are key to Susannah Paletz's project funded by the Minerva Research Initiative and the Office of Naval Resear …