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Movers & Shakers 2024

Press Release: UMD INFO’s Allison Jennings-Roche Named 2024 LJ Mover & Shaker

May 1, 2024 | Library Journal

LJ’s Class of 2024 Movers & Shakers highlights 50 individuals helping move library work forward

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(Video) CAFe Presents: Imagining Decolonial Archival Futures

May 1, 2024 | Maia Johnston

Featuring historian and archivist Krista McCracken and research analyst Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey

University of Maryland AIM news story via WJLA news network

ABC-7 News: University of Maryland Launches Interdisciplinary Institute on Artificial Intelligence (ft. Sheena Erete)

April 30, 2024 | INFO Staff

INFO Professor Sheena Erete will become the Associate Director of Research at UMD’s new Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Ins …

Digital humanity in space.

Data, Death, and What Comes Next

April 30, 2024 | Katie Shilton

A scholar outlines how to respect the digital traces the dead leave behind

(Video) CAFe Presents: Equity in Public Access to Research Results; Case Study from National Agriculture Library

April 24, 2024 | Logan Delavan-Hoover

Investigations into open access to research

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(Credit: Tinnaporn Sathapornnanont/shutterstock)

Discover Magazine: What Does The Future of Natural History Museums Look Like? (ft. Diana Marsh)

April 23, 2024 | INFO Staff

INFO Professor Diana Marsh contextualizes the history of museums in the modern world

Montage of photos of different Do Good Grant Projects

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)

April 22, 2024 | Kaitlin Ahmad | Do Good Institute | UMD

Inaugural grant recipients’ projects span campus, extend into local, state, global communities

An illustration of people working alongside a robotic dog.

Illustration by Zainab Noor Shamim

Integrating Robots in Homes to Support Autistic Youth

April 18, 2024 | Laurie Robinson

A TRAILS pilot study looks at how families can use AI robotic animal companions in support services for autistic children