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(Video) SoDa Symposium: “Prompt Engineering to Support AI Enabled Research”

April 16, 2025 | INFO Staff

Featuring Claire Kelley, senior data scientist and co-director for data science at Child Trends, and Trent D. Buskirk, professor at the …

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Capturing How Blind Pedestrians Navigate Their Environments to Expand Accessibility

January 28, 2025 | Laurie Robinson

Researchers created a motion dataset to train autonomous vehicles on how blind individuals move

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PROGRESS Issues First-Ever Grants to Advance Innovation in Gun Violence Research

January 16, 2025 | BSOS Staff | UMD

UMD's PROGRESS Initiative funds groundbreaking research projects tackling gun violence with innovation and collaboration

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News Release: A rising trend of ‘murderous verbs’ in movies over 50 years (ft. Babak Fotouhi)

January 2, 2025 | Jeff Grabmeier | Ohio State News

Study finds all types of movies contain more violence

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Breaking New Ground: A Strategic Approach to Cyber Defense

December 6, 2024 | Laurie Robinson

UMD researchers created a tool that allows county governments to assess their cybersecurity risks and make adjustments

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American Libraries Magazine: Serving New Neighbors (by Ana Ndumu)

November 25, 2024 | Ana Ndumu

Resources for embracing immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers