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Hailla Vinson, InfoSci '20
Alumni Profile: From Dance to Data: One Alum’s Journey to a Fulfilling Tech Career
March 13, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonA profile of InfoSci alum Hailla Vinson

Duncan Squires, InfoSci '19
Alumni Profile: From Robotics to Data Engineering: How One Alum Bridges Tech and Business
March 12, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonA profile of InfoSci alum Duncan Squires

Waleed Akram, InfoSci '22
Alumni Profile: The Innovator Bridging Cultures and Solving Problems
March 4, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonA profile of InfoSci alum Waleed Akram

Hornbake Library, a University library in College Park, Maryland
Alumni Profile: From Trailblazing Librarian to Acclaimed Author: A Journey of Cultural Bridges and Academic Excellence
February 11, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonA profile of Ben Igwe, INFO’s first Black PhD graduate

This 1900 image of the Carlisle Indian School football team includes one of Assistant Professor Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner's ancestors. She said this and the photo of her great-great-great grandmother Joaquina Nahwilet (image at bottom) is a rare example of good photo metadata; improving the tools in archival research is a primary goal of the new Indigenous archives project she's co-leading. Photo by John N. Choate/Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Maryland Today: UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives
February 4, 2025 | Laurie Robinson & Jessica WeissProject co-led by INFO and ARHU will develop tools, standards, and reparative practices to restore indigenous histories

InfoSci alum Aaron Shimanov
Alumni Profile: A Budding Career in Protecting the Nation Against Cyber Threats
January 2, 2025 | Laurie RobinsonA profile of InfoSci alum Aaron Shimanov

American Libraries Magazine: Serving New Neighbors (by Ana Ndumu)
November 25, 2024 | Ana NdumuResources for embracing immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers

Boxes of documents fill a room of the National Archives in College Park. A UMD researcher and colleagues plan to use AI to begin getting a handle on billions of undigitized documents so retrieval is easier. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Maryland Today: The National Archives Has Over 10B Undigitized Pages (ft. Doug Oard, Diana Marsh, and Katrina Fenlon)
October 22, 2024 | Maryland Today Staff | UMDThese UMD experts are working to make finding records easier