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• (Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “Centering Community and Care in Rapid Response Research”
• (Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: “Introduction to Perplexity”
• Maryland Today: AIM Seed Award Program to Support AI-Related Research and Course Development
• AICollaboratory Launches HERITAGE–AI Initiative with Major Grant
• Breaking New Ground: A Strategic Approach to Cyber Defense
• American Libraries Magazine: Serving New Neighbors (by Ana Ndumu)
• (Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: New Pathways for Search?
• (Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “Community Archives: Empowering Voices and Preserving Heritage”
• Press Release: Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Program Honors Top Students and Their Mentors
• (Video) i3r Teach-In: Affirming Haitian Immigrants’ Information Promise
• (Video) Dean’s Lecture Series Presents Invisible Rulers with Renée DiResta
• Our Black Mosaic Podcast: A Love Letter to Afro-Latine Youth
• UMD MIDA Researchers Play Major Role at ASSETS Conference
• CNN: How Organizations and Campaigns Are Trying to Break through on TikTok to Reach Young Voters (ft. Jennifer Golbeck and Celia Chen)
• Washingtonian: Meet DC’s 2024 Tech Titans (ft. Nate Tibbits, INFO Board Member)
• WTOP: Why There’s So Much Disinformation out There Now, and How You Can Combat It (ft. Cody Buntain)
• Newsweek: These Organizations Value Contributions From Employees With Disabilities (ft. Ron Padrón)
• A $3.4 million NSF Grant to Build Pathways From Sport to STEM
• Maryland Today: The National Archives Has Over 10B Undigitized Pages (ft. Doug Oard, Diana Marsh, and Katrina Fenlon)
• (Video) CAFe Presents: “From Collections to Connections: Centering Belonging in Archival Futures”
• UMD Women in Tech Gathered at 2024 Grace Hopper Celebration
• Alumni Profile: Kofi Ansah-Brew’s Mission to Secure America’s Health Data
• (Video) CAFe Presents: “Archiving the Crisis: What urgency should archivists feel regarding living archives of state-sponsored violence?”
• UMIACS: Reimagining the Future of Historical Research, One Box at a Time (ft. Doug Oard)
• Maryland Today: AI-Generated Misinformation is Everywhere. ID’ing It May Be Harder Than You Think (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• Maryland Today: UMD Researcher Writes a New Chapter for Prison Libraries (ft. Victoria Van Hyning)
• Empowering MLIS Students to Champion DEI in Libraries
• MIDA is Helping Lead the World Towards Born-Accessible Design
• Press Release: Best Practices & Collaborative Strategies in Digital Equity: Get Ready for the 2024 Maryland Statewide Digital Equity Summit
• Spotlight on iSchool Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Ron Padrón
• Tales from a Tech Native: From Video Game Enthusiast to Business Analyst
• InfoSci Student, Reem Saleh, Selected As One of Glamour’s College Women of the Year
• TEDx Talks: Why AI Progress Seems “Stuck” with Dr. Jen Golbeck
• New AI Seed Grants Support Trustworthy Tech
• MLIS Students Amy Guerrero and Elizabeth Tibebu Awarded ALA Spectrum Scholarship
• Announcement: UMD College of Information (INFO) Celebrates New Name with Invitation to Partner in Transforming Lives Through Information
• INFO College 2024, Get Involved! Events, Partnerships, Mentorship, and More
• Turner Family Supports Students Focused on Solving Societal Problems
• INFO College Announces New Embedded Counselor for Students
• Elective Insight: Introducing Matthew Alexander
• Transforming Student Learning Through Real-World Projects with Human-Centered Technology
• News Release: Archival Innovator Award is Presented to Team Including INFO Faculty
• Shaping the Future of Education Through Philanthropy
• INFO is Leading the Charge in Training Librarians for a Digital Era
• Turning Dreams into Impact: One Donor’s Contribution to Future Innovators
• UMD Students Studying Archival Technology & AI Make Real-World Impact
• “It’s My Turn”: From School Teacher to Director of Education at the National Cryptologic Museum
• Introducing iLead’s Newest Members
• A Beacon Behind Bars: Updated Standards Designed to Increase Accessibility of Carceral Libraries
• Committing to Lifelong Learning and Public Service
• News Release: Freedom to Read Foundation Announces 2024 Conable Conference Scholarship Recipients
• Tamara Clegg Named Director of UMD’s Iribe Initiative for Inclusion and Diversity in Computing
• (Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: “Interactive Team Cognition for Humans and Machines”
• News Release: UMD College of Information Studies Announces New Name
• (Video) SoDa Symposium Seed Grant Series: “Do County Demographics Shape Exposure to Cyber Harm?”
• (Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: Game-Changers: Unleashing the Power of Sports Informatics in Athletics
• A Storied Career of Transforming Global Health Through Data
• CNN: Privacy Experts Sound The Alarm Over Microsoft’s Latest AI Tool (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• UW iSchool Honors Eun Kyoung Choe with Distinguished Alumni Award
• Jeopardy: UMD’s Jordan Boyd-Graber Receives Shout-Out on Jeopardy Masters
• News Release: UMD Launches Step-by-Step Guides for Maryland Residents to Navigate Online Government Services
• Four INFO College Graduates Honored as Senior Marshals
• (Video) SoDa Symposium Seed Grant Series: How Can Large Language Models Help Us Identify and Use Constructs That We Can Trust?
• Celebrating a Special Group
• The Don Lemon Show: AI, The Far Right, Gaza and MORE with Taylor Lorenz and Dr. Jen Golbeck (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• (Video) Climbing from Casual to Champion: Meet UMD’s Collegiate Esports Conference Champions
• INFO College Announces Student Scholarship and Award Recipients 2023-24
• At New AI Institute’s Celebration, a Question of ‘Who’s at the Table’
• UMD Graduate Students Attend Google Cloud Next ‘24 Conference in Las Vegas
• CHI 2024 Roundup: UMD’s HCIL Has Another Strong Showing
• Library of Congress Digitizes Rare Hebrew Manuscripts, Opening Centuries of Jewish History to the World
• Press Release: UMD Undergraduate Student Wins Prestigious U.S. Department of State Fellowship
• Press Release: UMD INFO’s Allison Jennings-Roche Named 2024 LJ Mover & Shaker
• (Video) CAFe Presents: Imagining Decolonial Archival Futures
• ABC-7 News: University of Maryland Launches Interdisciplinary Institute on Artificial Intelligence (ft. Sheena Erete)
• Data, Death, and What Comes Next
• Maryland Today: UMD, State Combine to Get ‘Marylanders Online’
• (Video) CAFe Presents: Equity in Public Access to Research Results; Case Study from National Agriculture Library
• Discover Magazine: What Does The Future of Natural History Museums Look Like? (ft. Diana Marsh)
• Maryland Today: $460K Awarded to Faculty, Staff, Students From New Do Good Campus Fund (ft. Galina Reitz)
• Integrating Robots in Homes to Support Autistic Youth
• Maryland Today: New Teaching Innovation Grants to Support Surge of Educational Tech (ft. Caro Williams-Pierce)
• NPR News: The Future of TikTok in the United States (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• Democratizing Information: Volunteer Transcribers Enable Access to Cultural Heritage Materials
• MD Today: Website Help for the Helpers
• ACM: Community Is Critical Too
• News Release: UMD Launches Institute Focused on Ethical AI Development
• (Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: Gamification for Team Science and Human-AI Teaming
• Dr. Tamara Clegg Recognized for Involving Practitioners in Education Research
• MD Today: Reliable ER Translations Might Be Job for Humans, AI Together (ft. Ge Gao)
• (Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: Scott Nash of MOM’s Organic Market
• The Crucial Role of LIS in Information Schools Amid Technological and Societal Shifts
• UMD INFO College Faculty Awarded for Research Excellence
• From Classroom Management to Data Management: Unveiling the Multifaceted Role of School Librarians
• (Video) CAFe presents: The Ambivalences of the Unfixed
• How to Make Critical Decision-Making Systems Fairer and Build Trust in AI
• (Video) MacLeod Lecture: Advocating for Books, Children and Imagination in a Time of Division: a Conversation with Meg Medina
• (Video) SoDa Seed Grant Series: Socio-Algorithmic Foundations of Trustworthy News Recommendations
• (Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: The X-Culture Global Research Platform
• 14 Incredible Teams Selected as 2024 Do Good Challenge Semi-Finalists
• Scientific American: Everything to Know About OpenAI’s New Text-to-Video Generator, Sora (ft. Irene Pasquetto)
• Partnering with Enoch Pratt—and Beyond
• How Emerging Technologies are Crafting New Worlds and Revolutionizing Learning
• (Video) SODA Symposium: Birds of a Feather – Dealing with Missing Data
• GEOG and INFO College Celebrate Sergii Skakun’s Promotion to Associate Professor
• Eight Members of the UMD INFO College Receive “Do Good Innovator Awards”
• CBS News: The Differences Between the Trump and Biden Documents Cases (ft. Jason R. Baron)
• (Video) OTTRS Speaker Series : A Multilevel Approach to Heterogeneous Human-Agent Team Trust Dynamics
• Shaking Up the Archives: Computational Archival Science Accelerates Historical Research and Digital Readiness
• MD Today: Kids’ Unboxing Videos on TikTok May Be Revealing Much More. You Can Help. (ft. Jessica Vitak, Tamara Clegg, and Mega Subramaniam)
• MD Today: Accolades: Faculty and Staff Awards and Honors (ft. Ido Sivan-Sevilla and Gregg Vanderheiden)
• AP News: Meta’s Enforcement of Manipulated Media Policies (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• UMIACS: Vanessa Frias-Martinez Part of UMD Effort to Reduce Food Insecurity and Waste
• (Video) Privacy Week SoDa Special Event: Challenges, Strategies, and Emerging Issues: Hearing from Privacy Stakeholders
• UMD Joins National Consortium Dedicated to Improving AI Trustworthiness and Safety
• Collection Development, Preparing Future Librarians for Challenges Ahead
• MD Today: The Science of Perseverance (ft. Jessica Vitak)
• (Video) SODA Symposium: Data Literacy and Evidence Building – Birds of a Feather
• Maryland Today: To Like or Not to Like – Facebook at 20 (ft. Cody Buntain)
• Empowering the Blind Community Through Accessible Technology Education: Maryland’s Visionary Approach
• Maryland Today: Your Printer May Spill All of Your Secrets (ft. Charles Harry)
• (Video) SODA Symposium: Evolving a Data Enterprise to Support Relevant, Timely, and Equitable Statistical Products
• College Park Scholars to Launch Data Justice and Civic Engagement Programs
• Welcome Fall 2024 Undergrad Admits! Next Steps
• KFF Health News: What the Health? (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• Yahoo Finance: Generative AI Will Create a ‘Tsunami of Disinformation’ During the 2024 Election (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• Maryland Today: $1.5M in Grants Target Trustworthy AI Development
• Insight Into Diversity Magazine: UMD Leads Projects Aimed at Career Support, Accessibility for People with Disabilities (ft. Jonathan Lazar)
• UMD INFO Faculty to Make Archival Materials More Accessible via Web Search
• News Release: New R&D Projects to Move the Needle on Making Mainstream Tech Accessible for People Living with Disabilities
• Closing the Digital Divide: Marylanders Online Offers Tech Tools and Support to Thousands Across the State
• UMD INFO Faculty and Students Lead Presentations at the 2024 ALA LibLearnX Conference
• UMD MLIS Alumni Receive Multiple Maryland School Librarian of the Year Awards
• UMD Group Connects Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Thinkers and Leaders
• New Tool Can Help Audit Pretrial Detainment Decisions in Maryland, UMD Study Shows (ft. Zubin Jelveh)
• (Video) CAFe Speaker Series: Experts Discuss Zines as a Form of Advocacy, Self Expression
• (Video) SoDa Seed Grant Series: Newspapers and the Lynching Story: Discoveries, Distortions, and Erasure, 1789-1963
• (Video) Search Mastery: Bryan McCann Discusses AI and Search Engines
• A Murky World: Navigating Ethical Considerations in Data-Driven Research
• Adapting to AI: Approaches for Digital Publishers in Managing Web Scraping
• A New Way to Make Digital Technology Accessible to All
• (Video) Maryland Today: Information Warfare’s Secret Weapon: Kittens (ft. Susannah Paletz)
• Units Across UMD Partner on Multidisciplinary Initiatives for AI Ethics, Accessible Technology, and Literacy
• Diamondback: UMD Archive Gives Students a Look Into Life, Work of Artist Alonzo Davis (ft. Eric Hung and MLIS Students)
• (Video) INFO Professor Jonathan Lazar Gives Closing Keynote Speech About the Born-Accessible Model at the INTERACT Conference
• (Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: Multimodal Human AI-Interaction
• (Video) Subject Analysis: Centering Historical Lives in Contemporary Archives
• (Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: The Impacts of Organizational Change and Professionalization on Curating Smithsonian’s Fossil Halls
• (Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: The Search for Knowledge—How Technology Changes Everything You Know (Literally) and How You Know Everything
• News Release: Resources, Connections, and Bridging the Digital Divide Together: The 2023 Maryland Statewide Digital Equity Summit
• (Video) University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture: Censorship, Disinformation and the Immortality of Hatred
• University Libraries: New StoryMap Exhibit dives into UMD Restorative Justice (ft. Diana Marsh)
• Maryland Today: ‘Golden’ Era for Internet’s Dog Mom (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• Maryland Today: A Dramatic Step Forward in Robotics (ft. Bill Kules)
• Data@Hand: Transforming Personal Data Exploration on Your Smartphone
• Five Ways to Reimagine Smart Growth
• Dr. Adriene Lim to Retire as Dean of the University of Maryland Libraries, June 2024
• Newsweek: Optical Illusion of Man Eating ‘Dog’s Head’ for Breakfast Baffles Internet (ft. Jennifer Golbeck)
• Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) Informs Public Policy on Technology Accessibility for People with Disabilities
• Stephanie Valencia² Explores How Large Language Models Can Accommodate People with Disabilities
• The MLIS Program at UMD’s INFO College is Training the Next Generation of Librarians, Archivists, and Changemakers
• UMD Empowering More Maryland Residents to Become Digitally Connected
• Maryland Today: UMD Tech Tool Aims to Make Workplaces More Inclusive for Autistic People (ft. Ge Gao)
• (Video) Deans Lecture Series: A Conversation with Journalist David Plotz: Fake Bits, Real Bricks – Using Digital Information to Change the Physical World
• (Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: Virtual Team Creativity and Innovation
• Maryland Today: ‘Beyond the Field’ Homecoming Address Takes on Promise—and Risks—of AI (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• UMD Center for Archival Futures (CAFe) is Shaping Archives and Preservation
• (Video) Search Mastery: Maps, Models, and Metrics for Influence in Conflict Zones
• MLIS Faculty and Students Partner with Piscataway Leaders to Curate an Inventory of Piscataway Materials
• ARLIS: UMD Researchers Measure Social Media Sharing with Emotions (ft. Susannah Paletz)
• Maryland Today: The Cool Day Jobs of UMD’s Adjunct Professors (ft. Michael Prakhye)
• (Video) Founders of Popular Crowdsourcing Transcription Software FromThePage Speak at CAFe Speaker Series
• Recent Study Finds People with Dementia Use Changing Information Behaviors when Seeking Health Information
• UMD Rises in U.S. News’ Rankings of National Universities
• Maryland Today: An Ally for Access (ft. Huaishu Peng)
• UMD INFO College Welcomes Six New Faculty Members
• Introducing New Members of iLEAD in 2023
• News Release: Research Team Wins $1.5M NSF Grant to Leverage Machine Learning to Assess Mathematics Lesson Plan Quality in the Middle Grades
• UMD Ranked Nation’s No. 1 College for LGBTQ+ Students
• The Baltimore Banner: Is Johns Hopkins the Bad Guy in the Patient Data Breach? Or a Victim? (ft. Ido Sivan-Sevilla)
• Political Science Now: Fiona Shen-Bayh Receives the 2023 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award (ft. Fiona Shen-Bayh)
• MLIS Student Leigh Amadi Dunewood Awarded ALA Spectrum Scholarship
• News Release: UMD MLIS Student Erin Ramos Receives Prestigious Inaugural Scholarship
• NBC News: Some U.S. government agencies are testing out AI to help fulfill public records requests (ft. Jason R. Baron)
• UMIACS: Keeping Up with the Crises: Buntain Builds Digital Tools to Combat Misinformation (ft. Cody Buntain)
• Using His Skills as a Tech Generalist for Social Good
• News Release: Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) Launches
• Maryland Today: Unexploded Ordnance Is Scattered Across Ukraine’s Front Lines. UMD Researchers Are Mapping Hot Spots With AI. (ft. Sergii Skakun)
• Health Care Barriers: Screening and Referral for Social Determinants of Health in Maternity Care
• Tackling Childhood Literacy: A Grand Challenge
• Five Projects Awarded the Inaugural SoDa Seed Grant
• Maryland Today: Why Is Everyone Joining Threads? (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• A Community Archive Preserves the History of a 130-year-old African American Community
• Library Journal: ALA Approves New Library Service Standards for the Incarcerated or Detained (ft. Victoria Van Hyning)
• IEEE Spectrum: A Wearable Robotic Assistant That’s All Over You (ft. Ge Gao)
• New App to Empower Baltimoreans to Advocate for Better Public Transit
• Researchers Use Deep Learning, VHR Satellite Imagery to Map Artillery Craters in Eastern Ukraine
• (Video) 40th Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium
• Weighing in on the Federal Case Against Donald Trump (ft. Jason R. Baron)
• Two Deans, Two Future Gifts, One Mission
• From Education to FBI to Defense: Meet the Tech Generalist who is Impacting Millions of Lives
• New DoD Minerva Research Initiative Project
• From Paper Craft Making to Google’s UX Design Team: Leveraging Creativity to Create Equitable Experiences 
• Improving Fairness in Classrooms Through Machine Learning
• Remembering David S. Baugh (August 19, 1977 – June 1, 2023), UMD INFO Director of IT & Facilities, Interim Assistant Dean
• Parkdale High School Students and UMD Team Up to Mitigate Local Flooding
• Public News Service: AI-Powered Phone Scams Target Seniors (ft. Katie Shilton)
• Accessibility Barriers: The Challenges Blind and Low-Vision People Face in Using Personal Health Tech
• NBC’s 11th Hour: Surgeon General Warns About Teens on Social Media (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• INFO Recognizes LGBTQ Heritage Month
• Breaking Boundaries and Shaping the Future: Honoring the 2023 INFO Doctoral Graduates
• INFO College’s Charles Harry Granted Patent for Innovative Cybersecurity Risk Modeling Platform
• Finding Her Calling: From Elementary School Teacher to “2023 Maryland School Librarian of the Year”
• Maryland Today: When a Cat Video Elicits More Than Warm Fuzzies (ft. Susannah Paletz)
• (Video) ALA President Offers Advice for Future Librarians on Handling Banned Books
• UMD Leads New $20M NSF Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society
• Game Changers: How UMD HCIL Researchers Continue to Shape the Future of Human-Computer Interaction
• Cracking the Privacy Code: Navigating the Condor Dataset while Safeguarding User Identities
• European Central Bank Utilizes UMD-Faculty-Founded Cyber Events Database
• CNN: Pentagon Investigates Alleged Leak of Classified Information (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• (Video) SoDa Symposium: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Social Data Science Methods
• Maryland Today: What’s in a (Climate Change) Meme? ft. PhD Student Jeff Henrikson
• Embracing Experiential Learning: Providing Valuable Real-World Exposure to Aspiring K-12 Librarians
• HCIL Faculty and Students to Participate in CHI 2023
• Students Compete in the 5th Annual Terps Makeathon Hosted by UX Terps
• ARLIS Researchers Find a Way to Measure the “Cute” Factor on Social Media Content (ft. Susannah Paletz)
• Let’s Chat About AI on Campus (ft. Jessica Vitak)
• Unearthing the Hidden Legacy of Urban Renewal: Asheville’s Southside Neighborhood Reveals Intergenerational Impact
• (Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: Human-Machine Teaming: What Skills Do the Humans Need?
• (Video) Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Coercion in Cyberspace–A Model of Extortion via Encryption
• Grand Challenges Grant Launches Values-Centered AI Initiative
• Computational Thinking is the New Literacy of the 21st Century—Are Students Prepared?
• Breaking Boundaries in Technology: Discover the Cutting-Edge Research at the HCIL
• Psychology Today: “Tracking Gay Priests and Abortion Seekers with Location Data” by Jen Golbeck
• The New York Times: Halting Russian Influence Campaigns (ft. Cody Buntain)
• Europe’s Data Privacy Revolution: How Civic Engagement is Impacting Implementation
• LA Times: Assuaging the Fear of an AI Takeover (ft. Daniel Greene)
• Maryland Today: Anything but Common
• Data Everywhere: Making Sense of Our Digital Landscape
• When Hackers Target Road Infrastructure: The Downside of Smart Cars and Traffic Lights
• (Video) SoDa Symposium: Social Data Science Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
• Breaking the Loop: Creating a Trustworthy Social Media Platform
• Forbes: Web Accessibility Laws Set To Enter New Era As DOJ Gears Up For Spring Rulemaking (ft. Jonathan Lazar)
• INFO Biblioterp Podcast Launches! Episode 1: Dr. Diana Marsh, Dinosaurs, the Smithsonian, and her Book
• INFO Alumna Sheri Massey: “7 Ways School Librarians Can Build Partnerships With Content Teachers”
• (Video) CAFe Speaker Series: Curating Longitudinal Natural History Data Through the CHANGES Project
• The Case For Applying AI to FOIA Processing
• Women Who Are Making History Today
• Information & Access for All: INFO Hosts 6th Annual Info Challenge
• (Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: Promoting Astronaut Autonomy in Human Spaceflight Missions
• Off the Playground: When Kids Co-design Technology
• (Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Overview of Program & Activities
• WTOP and Yahoo News: Jen Golbeck Speaks on Social Media Issues
• Rolling Stone: Twitter’s Ongoing Battle Against Bots (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• Living With Purpose: The Legacy of Gloria Davidson
• A Librarian’s Journey: Reflecting on Racialized Trauma and Community Healing
• The Discussion Section podcast: Data Ethics for Researchers, IRBs, and Journal Reviewers (ft. Jessica Vitak and Katie Shilton)
• (Video) Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Assessing the Cyber-attack Surface of Local Infrastructures
• UMD INFO College: Meeting Society’s Grand Challenges
• LA Times: Foreign Workers Affected by Tech Layoffs (ft. Sakshi Nanda and David Loshin)
• Navigating Controversy in Computing Research: A Historical View of Data Ethics Work
• (Video) Data Journalism: Using Data to Tell Impactful Stories
• An Artful Way: Exploring the Connection Between HCI and Creative Mediums
• Historical Sites: The Lives and Contributions of Black Americans
• Terp Magazine: The Secrets to Social Success (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• Terp Magazine: Truth in Exile (ft. Richard Marciano)
• The INFO College Celebrates Black History Month
• NPR: Unpacking TikTok Scrutiny (ft. Jen Golbeck)
• Podcasts Listened to by the INFO College Community
• Frias-Martinez Joins UMD Effort Focused on Food and Nutrition Security
• Introducing iLEAD’s Newest Members
• (Video) CAFe Speaker Series: Belongings, Archives, & Indigenizing Design
• 100 Women Making AI Ethical and Accessible
• WIRED: The Impact of Online Harassment Against Women (ft. Jessica Vitak)
• (Video) SoDa Symposium: Rehabilitation of Open-ends
• UMD Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Pretrial Detention in Criminal Cases Across MD
• (Video) CAFe Speaker Series: The Persistent Visions Exhibition
• Project Aims to Convey Big Data With Sound and Touch
• Congratulations to the Fall 2022 INFO College Scholarship Recipients
• Meta Research Q&A with Jonathan Lazar, Professor, University of Maryland College of Information Studies
• (Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Search Engines as Gates and Gateways to Misinformation
• (Video) SoDa Symposium: Equal Input – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Social Data Science Research
• UMD Top Ranked for Bachelor’s Degrees Awarded Overall and to Minority Groups in Computer and Information Sciences
• (Video) OTTRS Speaker Series feat. Joel Chan
• Preserving History, Remembering a Pioneer
• Morphic: Advancing Social Equity Through Digital Inclusion
• Digital Literacy Summit Tackles Digital Inclusion
• Flash Forward Podcast: A Tech Assist for the Elderly (ft. Amanda Lazar)
• Recognizing National STEM/STEAM Day
• iFARM Participants Dig Into Global Food Data
• (Video) SoDa Center Workshop: The Future of Measurement, Surveys, and Social Data Science Research
• Recognizing Native American Indian/Alaska Native Heritage Month
• New York Magazine: How Digital Power Structures are Reshaping Society (ft. Daniel Greene)
• INFO College’s Dr. Ana Ndumu Co-Edits New Book on Black Librarians’ Contributions
• (Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: The Future of Learning
• Daniel Greene: Who Owns the Internet?
• (Video) CAFe Speaker Series: Close/Distant, Scales of Analysis in Digital Projects
• Daniel Greene: Rethinking How Schools, Libraries, and Community Orgs Tackle Poverty
• (Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: The Mojeek Search Engine – An Alternative in Web Search
• (Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: Taking on Big Tech – New Paradigms for New Possibilities
• NBC News: Declining Cookies Won’t Stop Data Tracking (feat. Ido Sivan-Sevilla)
• Recognizing Disability Awareness During the Month of October
• National Cyber Security Awareness Month
• UMD INFO College Introduces Technology and Information Design Major
• (Video) Digitizing Artifacts from the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence
• NPR News: Crypto and Retirement Form a Controversial Combination (feat. M. R. Sauter)
• NBC NEWS: A Viral Social Media Post Raises Concerns for Data Security (feat. Jen Golbeck)
• Lifewire: Are Free Apps Worth the Risks to Your Data? (feat. Jessica Vitak)
• The Conversation: How the Taliban’s New Regime Compares to the Last (feat. Cody Buntain)
• MD Today: How AI Could Help Writers Spot Stereotypes (feat. Niklas Elmqvist)
• Banned Hispanic Heritage Books
• Insight on Digital Curation for the Information Professional Certificate Program (DCIP)
• Dr. Galina Reitz Develops iTAP a Collaborative Project Providing Technology Support to the Senior Community
• MLIS Student Aaron Wilson Awarded ALA Spectrum Scholarship
• Dr. Cody Buntain Appears on Voice of America to Discuss the Taliban’s Use of Twitter
• Info College Faculty and Alumna Publish New Book on Information Literacy and Disinformation
• 3 Faculty Members Awarded $1.4 Million to Develop Library and Archival Services
• UMD Co-leads $750K NSF, Amazon Project to Tackle AI Bias in Mapping
• Two UMD Info College PhD Students Awarded ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellowships
• Dr. Cody Buntain Wins $999K DARPA Grant to Study Social Media in Conflict Zones
• How Taliban Used Twitter to take over Afghanistan
• Dr. Zubin Jelveh: Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It
• UMD Info College Welcomes Eleven New Faculty Members
• Two UMD Info College Faculty Members Establish New Archival Repatriation Committee
• Maryland Today: $6M Award From State to Help Extension Bridge Digital Divide
• Pride Month Celebrations Around the Region, LGBTQ+ Resources
• How People with Dementia Access Health Information
• UMD Info College Welcomes New Associate Professor Amelia Gibson
• UMD Info College Welcomes New Associate Professor Sheena Erete
• Senior Associate Dean Moves to New Opportunities After a Decade of Service
• (Video) ALA Lecture Series: ALA President Patty Wong
• Recovering Early Asian American Voices In American Popular Music: Two Girl Groups
• (Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Manchester vs. Cranfield
• New Law Ensures Equivalent Access to Digital Tools for All of Maryland’s K-12 Students
• The Search for Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge
• (Video) GEM Analytics Industry Expert Series: Data and Its Application in a Streaming Media Company
• Alumni Profile: Jane Robbins, PhD ‘72
• Jewish American Heritage at UMD
• Putting the ‘AR’ into Art
• Can a Strategy Game Help AI Learn to Spot Scammers?
• Covid-19 Pandemic Moves Research on Assistive Technologies From the Lab to People’s Homes
• Online-Only Services Offer Safety, But May Limit Access
• (Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: Technology for the Vulnerable – Studies in Designing for Access to Basic Needs
• iSchool Faculty and Staff Join Global Team to Launch New Publication
• Improving Fairness and Trust in AI Used for College Admissions and Language Translation
• (Video) SoDa Symposium: Universal Adaptability – A Target-Independent Approach to Inference
• MLIS Alumni Spotlight: The Joys of Aging Using VR – Erin Washington, MLIS ‘09
• HCIL Faculty and Students to Participate in CHI 2022
• PhD Alumni Spotlight: Empowering Kids and Adults to Design Better Together – Greg Walsh, ‘12
• AIC: UMD Student Project Featured on Japanese Television
• iSchool Hosts 5th Annual Info Challenge
• FOX5: Amazon’s ‘just walk out’ technology
• (Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Supporting Children’s Online Information Discovery
• BSOS, iSchool and Department of Computer Science Unveil New Undergraduate Badging Program
• Blog This: Transforming How Students Engage and Learn from Visualization Research
• iSchool Professor Receives $1 Million NSF CAREER Grant to Develop Data Science Curriculum
• “Drawing Conclusions” – Identity Formation in the Digital Age
• Maryland Giving Day – March 9, 2022
• iSchool Admits First Student to New Combined Bachelor’s/Master’s Program
• Preparing for the Big Day
• (Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: Rocks, Clouds, and Lightning: Energy, Materiality, and Infrastructural Systems
• MLIS Alumnae Use Instagram to Amplify Black Excellence in Librarianship
• Celebrate Women’s History Month From Anywhere
• Expanding the Possibilities for Accessible Data Visualization
• REAL LIFE MAG: Seeing Without Looking
• (Video) SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science
• iSchool Professor Dr. Tamara Clegg Stars in Nickelodeon Commercial
• PhD Alumni Spotlight: Science is a Social Process – Pengyi Zhang, ‘10
• Seven iSchool Undergraduates Join UMD’s First Sprinternship™
• Social Data Science Major to Debut in February
• Black History Month in Maryland, Get Involved
• NPR: TikTok creator makes the recipes she finds on gravestones
• Work on the Use of Intelligent Voice Assistants by Older Adults Wins ACM TOCHI Best Paper Award
• Uncovering the Buried History of Baltimore’s Arts and Culture
• HR Brew: Employee surveillance is exploding with remote work (feat. Jessica Vitak)
• GeekWire: UW computer science school denounces retired professor’s tweet on women hires (feat. Jen Golbeck)
• Trace Center at 50 Yrs (Video): Accomplishments, Lessons Learned, Future Directions
• UMD iSchool’s Jen Golbeck Turns to TikTok as a Tool to Teach Next Gen Social Media Influencers
• Congratulations to the Fall 2021 iSchool Scholarship Recipients
• PhD Alumni Spotlight: No Such Thing as Perfect in Research – Jes Koepfler, ‘14
• Katrina Fenlon to Support New Commission to Foster Digital Humanities Projects on Social and Racial Justice
• Maryland Today: Getting the Party Started, USPS-Style
• UMD iSchool, CMNS & I4C Celebrate Break Through Tech DC Partnership to Foster Diversity in Computing
• PhD Alumni Spotlight: The Fight for Access to Justice – Ursula Gorham, ‘15
• The Diamondback: Restorative Justice Steering Committee presents plan to College Park City Council
• HCIL Founder Receives IEEE Test of Time Award for Treemap Research
• Preserving the Legacy of an American Opera Icon
• Loud Gleeful Learning
• Trace Faculty and Students Contribute to a Successful Virtual ASSETS 2021
• PhD Alumni Spotlight: Navigating the HUman eXperience – Gagan Jindal, ‘20
• Digitized 17-18th Century Documents Shed Light on Nipmuc History
• iSchool Students Precious Abujana and Andrea Gutmann Fuentes awarded 2021 ALA Spectrum Scholarships
• Citizen Panel: What Values Should Regulate Social Media?
• Jonathan Lazar Named Director of the Trace R&D Center
• Spooktacular Field Study: Adding Congressional Cemetery Graves to Google Arts and Culture
• PhD Alumni Spotlight: Examining the "Datafication" of Family Life – Priya Kumar, PhD ‘21
• Banned Books Week 2021 – ALA’s Most Challenged Books List for 2020 Revealed
• The Diamondback: UMD works to revamp privacy policy (feat. Jessica Vitak)
• PhD Alumni Spotlight: To Build or Not to Build? – Myeong Lee, PhD ‘19
• UMD Researchers Awarded $159K NSF Grant to Expand Wi-Fi Access in Regional Parks
• Maryland Today: Merrill College, iSchool to Offer ‘From-Anywhere’ Master’s in Data Journalism
• Trace Center Directs New Digital Accessibility Research During Covid-19 Pandemic
• Fall 2021 Welcome from iSchool Dean Keith Marzullo
• The Washington Post: Private Israeli Spyware Used to Hack Cellphones of Journalists
• Clickbait Headlines Might Not Lure Readers as Much
• FoodScrap: Promoting Rich Data Capture and Reflective Food Journaling Through Speech Input
• Journal of Education for Library & Information Science: Articles by Ana Ndumu
• From Learning Analytics to Institutional Learning Ecosystems
• The Fourth Thursday: “Urban Renewal Impact” in Asheville
• Predicting Popularity of Polish Facebook Posts Using Author and Content Features
• Maryland Today: Well-versed in the Metaverse
• Counting Tweets
• UMD Professor Says College Athletes Will Need to Learn to Manage Brands Before Profiting off Their Likeness
• UMD Faculty and Alumni Honored as Movers and Shakers Class of 2021
• How the Abrupt Disappearance of Digital Archives Impacts Communities
• Where in the World (Wide Web) is the Trace Center?
• Alumni Spotlight: Alumnus Turns a New Page After 40-Year Career in Librarianship and History – William Peniston ‘87
• UMIACS: Plaisant Retires, Concluding Stellar 34-Year Career at UMD
• Alumni Spotlight: Alumna’s Mission to Grow Promising Businesses Through the Power of Data – Vyjayanthi Kamath, MIM ‘20
• Celebrating the UMD iSchool and Trace Center’s Commitment to Advancing Innovations for Older Populations
• Alumni Spotlight: How One Alum’s Voyage to Transform Businesses Began at the UMD iSchool – Rishi Jain MIM ‘19
• A Robot Rolls Into a Math Class…
• Congratulations to the 2020-2021 iSchool Awards Recipients
• Alumni Spotlight: Alumna and Trailblazer Lands Career in UX Design – LaRia Rogers MIM ‘20
• Student Spotlight: iSchool Undergrad Became Inaugural Student Co-Chair of IAC – Claire Morville, BSIS ‘21
• STEM Education Struggle in the U.S.: The Key Piece We’ve Been Missing
• UMD iSchool Takes #4 Spot in U.S. Rankings
• iSchool’s New Interest Group Explores Advancements in Search Mastery and Education
• Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Womens’ Right to Vote: Free Exhibits
• Jesse Anderson, InfoSci ’22, to Compete as Finalist in the UMD Do Good Challenge!
• A Library’s Guidebook to Surviving During Crisis: Now Available
• New Partnership Aims to Help UMD Further Diversify D.C. Region’s Tech Ecosystem
• Alumni Spotlight: How iSchool Alumnus Helps Businesses Innovate and Adapt Using Transformational Tech – Brandon Turp BSIS ‘18
• George Mason & University of Maryland to Leverage 311 Data for Increased DMV Resilience During a Pandemic
• Celebrating Exceptional Black Library Leaders, Alumni of the UMD iSchool
• UMD Driskell Center and iSchool Launch New Crowdsourcing Project to Preserve the Work of African American Art Pioneer
• The Passing of Margaret Carty
• Alumni Spotlight: A Visionary in the Valley: An Alumna’s Journey to the Globe’s Center for Tech Innovation – Solace "Lacey" Arevalo-Sabado, HCIM ‘19
• UMAICS: Harnessing Data Science to Improve the Social Good, featuring Wei Ai
• Maryland Today: Don’t Take the (Click)bait, featuring Naeemul Hassan
• Design is a Contract
• Science Magazine: U.S. Law Sets Stage for Boost to Artificial Intelligence Research, featuring Vanessa Frias-Martinez
• Alumni Spotlight: A Dream Pursued, A Dream Fulfilled – Preeti Lakhole, MIM 2015
• The Associated Press: Despite Promise, Few in US Adopting COVID-19 Exposure Apps, featuring Jessica Vitak
• The Kojo Nnamdi Show: Conspiracy Theories, Math And The Presidential Election, featuring Jen Golbeck
• University of Maryland, Carnegie Mellon, and Facebook Team Up to Forecast Coronavirus Spread
• UMD iSchool @ the ACM’s 2020 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
• Cogitatio Press: Strengthening Children’s Privacy Literacy through Contextual Integrity
• The Baltimore Sun: Harford County Library CEO Named New Chairwoman of Maryland Humanities Board
• Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor, Naeemul Hassan
• PhD Student Spotlight: Xiaoyun Huang
• Staff Spotlight: IT Coordinator, Allan Oliveros
• Faculty Spotlight: Adjunct Lecturer, Nancy Roderer
• Social Media’s Impact on the 2020 Presidential Election: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Alumni Spotlight: Alumna Praises iSchool as the Heart of Nation’s Archival World – Ann Abney, MLS ‘16
• UMD iSchool Sends 30 Students to Grace Hopper Celebration
• Dr. Niklas Elmqvist & Purdue to Develop Virtual Reality Workforce Training Tech
• UMD iSchool Faculty and Students Lead the Way at the ASSETS 2020 Conference
• A Tale of Two Identities: How Data Literacy Can Serve Underrepresented Student-Athletes in STEM
• Alumni Spotlight: UMD iSchool Alum and Archivist Helps to Write the “Final Drafts of History” – Tyler Stump, HiLS 2015
• UMD iSchool Helping to Create Safer Roadways Through Data Visualization
• SchoolCEO: Crash Course Q&As: Dr. Jen Golbeck
• UMD Researchers Receive $2.35M NSF Award to Improve Public Transit Planning in Baltimore
• (Video) engAGED: Considering Technology and Access for Older Adults Discussion
• INFO Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Design Personalized Self-Tracking Tech for Older Adults to Improve Physical Activities
• Faculty Spotlight: Postdoc and Adjunct Faculty Member, Sarah Gilbert
• Staff Spotlight: Assistant Dean for Finance & Administration, Melekte Truneh
• Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor, David Weintrop
• PhD Student Spotlight: Jonathan Brier
• Reimagining How Libraries Can Serve Youth During COVID-19
• Dr. Charles Harry Talks About Managing Cyber Risks on The Scientific Sense Podcast
• University of Maryland Launches New Social Data Science Center with Support from Facebook
• Maryland Today: Visualizing Vehicle Safety, featuring TJ Rainsford
• Alumni Spotlight: iSchool Lays the Foundation for Alumna’s Career in Academic Librarianship – Joyce Garczynski MLS ‘09
• School Library Journal: The Right and Wrong Way To Make Decisions in a Crisis | Reimagining Libraries, featuring Mega Subramaniam
• Fulbright: Hosted by the Library and Information Consortium of the Kyrgyz Republic, featuring Mega Subramaniam
• MLIS Student Working to Connect Library Services to Children
• Research Will Test Finger-worn Sensor That Tracks Stroke Survivors’ Arm Movements
• SIGACCESS Release: Jonathan Lazar – Outstanding Contribution Recipient 2020
• BSIS Student Builds Database for the Library of Congress
• UMD iSchool to Investigate AI Tech for Intelligence Analysts
• UMD iSchool Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members
• UMD iSchool Pioneers Initiatives to Advance STEM Learning Among Youth
• UMD iSchool, a Hub of Revolutionary Digital Curation Research and Technology Development
• Maryland Today: Clock’s Ticking Until TikTok Ban, But Does It Make Sense?, featuring Jen Golbeck
• Faculty Spotlight: Junior Lecturer, Pamela Duffy
• Faculty Spotlight: Adjunct Lecturer, Eric Hung
• Staff Spotlight: Scheduling and Data Management Coordinator, Fernando Marciano
• PhD Student Spotlight: Nathan Beard
• ITPro Today: How Customer Lifetime Value Drives Analytics, featuring David Loshin
• Alumni Spotlight: Making a Difference as a Prison Librarian – Glennor Shirley, MLS ‘93
• UMD iSchool MLS Alumna Partners with iConsultancy to Provide Experiential Learning Opportunities in Digital Curation and Web Design
• Charles Harry Awarded a Maryland Innovation Grant
• More Than Just Privacy: Using Contextual Integrity to Evaluate the Long-Term Risks from COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies
• Meet MLIS student, Bailey DeSimone
• The Washington Post: One Home, a Lifetime of Impact, featuring Andrew Fellows
• What Time Is It?
• Gregg Vanderheiden delivers Keynote at International Human Computer Interface Conference
• BBI Awards Seed Grants to Six Interdisciplinary Projects, featuring Katie Shilton
• Netflix Series "Connected," featuring Jen Golbeck
• Leveraging Partnerships to Enhance Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion in Curriculum
• Confidence in Institutions in a Time of Mistrust
• Mic: The Bitcoin scam that hit Twitter could have been way worse, featuring Jen Golbeck
• The Library’s Role in Supporting Health Information Justice During COVID-19
• Leveraging Partnerships to Produce Award-Winning School Librarian Leaders
• CNBC: How the government could ban TikTok — and what else you need to know, featuring Jen Golbeck
• Universities at Shady Grove Blog: How Technology is Helping People with Traumatic Brain Injuries
• Smithsonian Magazine: Help Transcribe Field Notes Penned by S. Ann Dunham, a Pioneering Anthropologist and Barack Obama’s Mother, featuring Diana Marsh
• PhD Student Spotlight: Pramod Chundury
• Faculty Spotlight: Tamara (Tammy) Clegg, Associate Professor
• Faculty Spotlight: Bridgette Comanda, Adjunct Lecturer and School Library Program Experiential Learning Coordinator
• MLIS Student Tannaz Motevalli Named 2020-21 ALA Spectrum Scholar
• Staff Spotlight: Tetyana Bezbabna, Assistant Director of Information Science Undergraduate Program at Shady Grove
• Alumni Spotlight: iSchool Alumna Awarded Maryland School Librarian of the Year 2020 – Donna Mignardi MLS ’99
• Remembering Christine Glaab – Law Librarian, Community Volunteer, Ardent Reader, and UMD iSchool Alumna
• Maryland Today: Pushing for Access, featuring Paul Jaeger
• School Library Journal: Retire Those Legacy Approaches. It’s Time to Be Bold and Innovative. | Reimagining Libraries, featuring Mega Subramaniam
• UMD TRACE Center is Leading the Way in Researching and Designing Tools for Digital Accessibility During COVID-19
• Medium: Approaches Matter
• Alumni Spotlight: Becoming a Leader in Library and Information Science – Jocelyn McNamara MLS 2016
• Prestigious ALISE Awards go to Three UMD iSchool Recipients
• Medium: What to Expect When Non-Experts Train AI
• Medium: Devices All The Way Down
• Medium: HCIL 2019-2020 News Roundup
• Press Release: Naeemul Hassan Awarded $228,000 NSF Grant For Collaborative Project
• Medium: Engaging the Commons in Participatory Sensing
• David Weintrop Awarded Prestigious National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
• School Library Journal: COVID-19 Is an Opportunity to Rethink Youth Librarianship | Reimagining Libraries, featuring Mega Subramaniam
• Brookings: Where Would Racial Progress in Policing be Without Camera Phones? featuring Nicol Turner Lee
• Digital Privacy News: Ease of Voice Recognition Technology Brings Great Risks, featuring Jessica Vitak
• Student Archivists at Maryland – Call for New Student Members!
• Stepping Outside of the Comfort Zone: An MLIS Student’s Experience Presenting at GradTerp Exchange
• Would you make a good Information Detective? Explaining the career of an Open Source Intelligence Professional, featuring Mary Ann Francis
• New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry
• Building Community Through Coursework
• Press Release: Revelo Teams Up with University of Maryland for Digital Accessibility Pilot
• MLIS Students Get Hands-on Experience Digitizing Documents
• Alumni Spotlight: Law Librarian, Community Volunteer, and Ardent Reader – Christine Glaab, MLS, 75′
• Getting Personal: How People Who are Blind Can Leverage AI to Access the Visual World
• Two UMD iSchool Faculty Members Join FAS COVID-19 Task Force
• Medium: What If Blind People Wear a Camera That Can Detect You in Public Spaces? (by Kyungjun Lee)
• Alumni Spotlight: Keys to Succeeding in the Forensic Investigation Field – Pranali Shetty, MIM ‘15
• UMD iSchool Awards $109K to 2019-20 Outstanding Students
• PhD students Gagan Jindal and Priya Kumar Receive Prestigious Graduate School Fellowships/Awards
• Student-Athletes’ Use of Their Performance Data; Evaluating Tech to Regulate Anxiety – UMD iSchool Papers Awarded at CHI 2020
• Resources for Hands-off Learning at Home
• What Gaming Has Taught Us About the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Mega Subramaniam Elected to the ALISE Board as Director for External Relations
• Gagan Jindal, PhD Student: Assessing the Value of Crowdsourced Repositories for Chronic Illness Management
• Alumna Katelyn Attanasio on Why Libraries Shouldn’t Do Curbside During COVID-19
• Dr. Ana Ndumu Speaks About the Library’s Role in the 2020 Census on the Power Station Podcast
• OneZero: Data Thieves Are Targeting Dead People’s Social Media Accounts (featuring Jessica Vitak)
• Preservation Maryland’s Free Online Photography Collection Expands Online
• UMD iSchool Excellence Award Winners 2019-2020 Announced
• Alumni Spotlight: Re-Envisioning the Role of Libraries in Teaching and Learning – Jean Donham, MLS ‘72
• Dr. Paul Shelden, musician, educator, and UMD iSchool alumnus, passed April 17, 2020
• ACM Interactions Magazine: Reading Recommendations from Priya Kumar
• Jen Golbeck TEDx Talk: Society One Algorithm at a Time
• Alumni Spotlight: Keys to Succeeding in the Forensic Investigation Field – Pranali Shetty, MIM ‘15
• Student Spotlight: Alisha Pradhan, PhD Student
• Faculty Spotlight: Trevor Owens, Adjunct Lecturer
• Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Weaver, Senior Lecturer
• WUSA: Apple, Google Team Up for Contact Tracing Tech to Help Fight Coronavirus (featuring Jen Golbeck)
• Announcement: Dr. Katherine Izsak appointed Assistant Dean of Academic Programs for the UMD iSchool
• Maryland Today: Virtual Meetings, Real Disruptions: Zoombombing Trolls (featuring Jessica Vitak)
• How COVID-19 Mis/Disinformation can be Deadly to Some Populations (featuring Beth St. Jean)
• UMD iSchool’s International Children’s Digital Library Featured on LA Times List of Free Reads During COVID-19
• UMD Researchers Develop Tech Trainings to Educate Retirement Communities Amidst Growing Isolation Concerns
• Wired: Death Cuts the Degree of Separation Between You and Covid-19 (featuring Babak Fotouhi)
• UMD iSchool and Google/Chronicle Utilize Commercial Data Mining Techniques to Develop Cybercrime Predictor
• How Data Visualization Helps Us to Approach the COVID-19 Pandemic
• UMD iSchool Announces Spring 2020 Financial Award Winners
• Why Disadvantaged Populations are at Greater Health Risk from COVID-19 – and How Libraries are Helping, Despite Closing
• How to Avoid COVID-19 Fake News on Social Media: 5 Tips From Expert Jen Golbeck
• Fighting Disinformation to Save Democracy
• WIRED: Greta Thunberg’s Online Attackers Reveal a Grim Pattern (featuring Jessica Vitak)
• Faculty Spotlight: Margaret Chmiel, Adjunct Lecturer
• Faculty Spotlight: Katrina Fenlon, Assistant Professor
• Student Spotlight: Md. Main Uddin Rony, Ph.D. Student
• Staff Spotlight: Fabián Faccio, Academic Advisor for Undergraduate Program
• PYMNTS: New York Security Law Changes Retail Data Efforts (featuring Jen Golbeck)
• The Diamondback: UMD Senate is considering a bill that would require background checks for all staff (featuring M.R. Sauter)
• UMD iSchool Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC) Launched: a Letter From Dr. Richard Marciano
• UMD iSchool Spring 2020 Student Travel Award Winners Announced
• Journal of Gerontological Nursing: Emerging Smart Home Technologies to Facilitate Engaging With Aging (featuring Amanda Lazar)
• Why It’s Essential to Serve Youth Outside of the Library: An Interview with Mega Subramaniam
• Talk Data to Me: Students Across Campus Find a Common Language in UMD Data Challenge
• Dr. Jonathan Lazar Honored for High-Impact Research in ICT Accessibility
• ABC Denver: Data privacy protection at forefront of new proposed federal law (featuring Jen Golbeck)
• Today’s Parent: I exclusively pumped—and there’s not enough support for moms like me (featuring Fiona Jardine)
• Setting the Bar for Computer Access
• Subramaniam awarded 2020 YALSA Outstanding Achievement Award
• Slate: How Facebook Is Trying to Save Messenger Kids (featuring Priya Kumar)
• Alumni Spotlight: An Adventurous Infrastructure Architect – Charell Adagala, BSIS ‘18
• Alumni spotlight: How the iSchool Kick-started My Cybersecurity Career – Omar Youssef, BSIS ‘19
• The High John Library (1967): Shaping the Future of Libraries as Community Resource Centers
• SEASide Webinar: Consumer Health Information Justice and Health Disparities (featuring Beth St. Jean)
• C4E Journal: Making Ethics in Machine Learning (featuring Daniel Greene)
• Faculty Spotlight: Vedat Diker, Undergraduate Program Director
• Student Spotlight: Shawn Janzen, PhD Candidate