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November GradTerp Exchange speakers: Donny Pearson (Physics), Nicole Barbour (Biology), Karrin Thompson (Library and Information Science)(left to right)

Stepping Outside of the Comfort Zone: An MLIS Student’s Experience Presenting at GradTerp Exchange

June 12, 2020 | Karrin Thompson, UMD iSchool MLIS Student

GradTerp Exchange is a monthly speaker series in which The Graduate School invites 3-4 graduate students and postdocs to share their re …

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Would you make a good Information Detective? Explaining the career of an Open Source Intelligence Professional, featuring Mary Ann Francis

June 12, 2020 | Mary Ann Francis

Have you ever wondered about privacy and the data that operating systems, search engines, and social networks collect about you?

New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry

New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry

June 11, 2020 | ACES

The CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) grant is funded through the National Science Foundation to provide educational and profes …

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Building Community Through Coursework

June 11, 2020 | Eric Hing-Tao Hung Mea Lee, K. Sarah Ostrach

Community engagement has become an increasingly important component of libraries and archives professions.

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MLIS Students Get Hands-on Experience Digitizing Documents

June 4, 2020 | Morgan Adle

MLIS students specializing in Archives and Digital Curation seek hands-on experience digitizing historic material.

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Alumni Spotlight: Law Librarian, Community Volunteer, and Ardent Reader – Christine Glaab, MLS, 75′

May 29, 2020 | iSchool News

Christine Glaab received her Master of Library Science (MLS) in 1975 from the College of Library and Information Science (CLIS), which …

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Getting Personal: How People Who are Blind Can Leverage AI to Access the Visual World

May 29, 2020 | Hayleigh Moore

The Teachable Object Recognizer mobile application uses AI and machine learning to help access the visual world.

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Two UMD iSchool Faculty Members Join FAS COVID-19 Task Force

May 29, 2020 | iSchool News

The Federation of American Scientists has assembled teams of world-class experts to examine and advise on various facets of the COVID …