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• Project Aims to Convey Big Data With Sound and Touch
• Congratulations to the Fall 2022 INFO College Scholarship Recipients
• (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
• 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
• iSchool Professor Co-Edits New Book Commemorating BCALA 50th Anniversary
• (Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: The Future of Learning
• Dr. Daniel Greene: Who Owns the Internet?
• (Video) CAFe Speaker Series: Close/Distant, Scales of Analysis in Digital Projects
• Dr. 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 iSchool 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
• UMD iSchool 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. Ben Shneiderman on Data Visualization’s Breakthrough Moment in the COVID-19 Crisis
• 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
• Staff Spotlight: Kibbi Henderson, Human Resources Manager and Equity Administrator
• 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
• Faculty Spotlight: J. Bern Jordan, Assistant Research Scientist
• Staff Spotlight: Cecilia “CeCe” Penn-Diallo, Facilities Coordinator
• UMD’s Dr. Renee Hill is Recipient of the NFB Accessibility Inclusion Fellowship Award
• Alumni Spotlight: The Work of an Ivy League Librarian – Tara Custer MLS ‘15
• Toward Supporting Personalized Tracking Experiences in Healthcare (featuring Eun Kyoung Choe)
• AAAS Member Spotlight: Computer Scientist Jen Golbeck Reflects on Two Decades of Social Media Research and Where We’re Heading Next
• UMD’s Dr. Jennifer Preece Named Editor-in-Chief of Citizen Science Journal
• UMD iSchool Undergraduates Selected to Attend Premier Health Informatics Symposium
• HCIM Students Mentor iSchool Undergraduates on Accessible and Inclusive Design
• Alumni Spotlight: A Librarian’s Journey to Finding Her Calling – Amelia Nuss, MLS 2010
• UMD’s Dr. Amanda Lazar Seeks Tech Solutions to Allow People with Dementia to Maintain Autonomy
• UMD Researchers Identify Top Data Privacy Risks for Low-Income Families and Develop Preventative Programs at Public Libraries
• iSchool Lecturer David Loshin’s Book on Data Analytics Recognized as Top Read for Data Integration
• iSchool Students Explore the Impacts of Technology and Society Using Rorschach Test
• Medium: Data, Desert Islands, and Digital Dark Ages (featuring Richard Marciano)
• Dr. Jonathan Lazar Receives the Inaugural Rachel Olivero Accessibility Innovation Award
• Alumni Spotlight: How an iSchool Alumna Helps Fight Plagiarism – Terry Darr, MLS ’06
• Staff Spotlight: Carol Boston, HCIM Program Manager
• Faculty Spotlight: Maggie Dull, Lecturer
• Faculty Spotlight: Ken Heger, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Archives and Digital Curation Specialization
• Student Spotlight: Will Thomas, PhD Student
• UMD iSchool Announces 14 Adjunct Faculty Hires from Industry
• Three UMD iSchool Students Travel to Forbes Under 30 Summit
• HCIL Faculty and Students Have Fun at Retreat
• NBC: TSA Employees Vent on Private Facebook Page (featuring Jen Golbeck)
• Dr. Marciano (DCIC) and Students Aim to Modernize Archival Education with Computational Thinking Practices
• Nadya Bliss, Guest Speaker at the UMD iSchool, Discusses How to Combat Disinformation Campaigns
• A Sherpa for Your Mountains of Data
• Student Spotlight: Fiona Jardine, PhD Candidate
• Faculty Spotlight: Abdirisak Mohamed, Lecturer
• Faculty Spotlight: Katie Shilton, Associate Professor
• Staff Spotlight: Craig Taylor, Graphic Design and Media Coordinator
• Student Spotlight: Undergrads Travel to Malaysia for Global Leadership Training
• Student Spotlight: Four iSchool Graduate Students Receive Travel Scholarships
• Psychology Today: The Power of Boundaries (featuring Jen Golbeck)
• The Ambient: We asked the experts: Do Alexa’s new privacy tools go far enough? (featuring Jessica Vitak)
• The Threat of AI Fabricating People for Malicious Purposes (Deepfakes) – and What We Can Do About It
• Advice from Jen Golbeck on How to Avoid Oversharing Online
• Alumni Spotlight: Independent Scholar Who Strives to Be an Autodidact – David B. Levy, MLS ‘94
• Alumni Spotlight: The Endless Opportunities in Librarianship – Mary Ellen Icaza MLS ‘98
• Ten Years On, Foursquare Is Now Checking In to You (featuring Jessica Vitak)
• Alumni Spotlight: An Archivist in Mexico – Natalie Baur MLS’11
• Dean Adriene Lim Appointed UMD iSchool Professor of the Practice
• UMD no longer recycles glass. Here’s why. (featuring Andrew Fellows)
• UMD iSchool Welcomes 9 New Faculty Members
• Staff Spotlight: Luis Cortes, Research Coordinator
• Faculty Spotlight: Renee Hill, Principal Lecturer
• Faculty Spotlight: Pratima Kshetry, Lecturer
• Student Spotlight: Yuting Liao, PhD Candidate
• Gained in Translation: UMD Researchers Developing Translator System With Social Tact, AI Restraint
• Seeing How Computers ‘Think’ When Answering Questions Can Lead to More Intelligent Machines Say UMD Researchers
• iSchools and the defense of privacy: A response to Forbes.com
• Student Spotlight: From Software Development to UX Design – Ashrith Shetty HCIM’20
• Alumni Spotlight: From Law School to iSchool – Laura Moorer MLS’12
• Alumni Spotlight: Enhancing Digital Tools at the New York Times – Jenny Hottle HCIM’17
• Gao and Carpuat Win Research Award to Advance Smart Machine Translation Systems
• UMD to Open New Space for Discovery and Collaboration in Crystal City in 2020
• Dr. Jen Golbeck Guest Hosts NPR’s Kojo Nnamdi Show on Public School Inclusive Policies for Transgender Students
• UMD Team Builds DataWorld – an Augmented Reality that Visualizes Data in Everyday Settings
• Dr. Michael Kurtz Honored with Exemplary Service Award from the Society of American Archivists
• Seeing How Computers “Think” Helps Humans Stump Machines and Reveals Artificial Intelligence Weaknesses
• UMD Researchers Win $1.5M Minerva Grant to Understand Social Media Sharing and Information Campaigns
• Working in Libraries – Like Mother, Like Daughter
• Meet Jeff Waters, UMD iSchool Manager of Graduate Student Services
• Meet Andrea Batch, UMD iSchool PhD Student
• Meet Susannah Paletz, UMD iSchool Research Professor
• Meet Ashleigh Coren, UMD iSchool Lecturer
• Creating a New Type of Food Tracking App
• Partnering with Kyrgyz Republic Libraries to Develop Innovative Youth Education Programs
• Leveraging Local Community Members to Build a Better Environmental Citizen Science App
• UMD iSchool’s Dan Greene Explores Benefits and Challenges of Automated Hiring Platforms for Both Employers and Employees
• Dr. Philip Piety on Data-Driven Decision Making in the Education System
• 3 UMD iSchool Faculty Members are Among Top 10 Contributors to Public Library Scholarship This Decade
• Using Cell Phones to Learn How We Respond to Natural Disasters
• Meet the MIM Program
• UMD iSchool Students Receive ALA Spectrum Scholarships
• Meet Jaison Cooper, Yla Tausczik, Dennis Frezzo, and Jamie Edwards
• The Key to Solving the Puzzle of Web Governance, Featuring Robert Jacoby, MIM 2012
• Davis McCarn Award: Digital Curation Innovation Center
• Evviva Weinraub, MLS 2006, Named Vice Provost for University of Buffalo Libraries
• Aderonke Adeniji, MIM, Class of 2005
• Congratulations to Winners of 2018-2019 iSchool Staff and Student Awards
• The talent textbook: A new model for candidate screening, featuring Daniel Greene
• Amanda Lazar Shares Concerns about Healthcare AI for the Elderly and People with Disabilities
• Jamuna Sundararajan, MIM 2005, Honored at iSchool Alumnus of the Year Event
• Alumni Spotlight: Cybersecurity for the U.S. House of Representatives – Aderonke Adeniji, MIM ’05
• BSOS, iSchool Establish Center for Advances in Data and Measurement
• UMD iSchool Researcher, Jen Golbeck, Interprets Social Media Giant Facebook’s Ongoing Missteps
• Jen Golbeck Shares Thoughts on the Psychological Effects of ‘Likes’ on Social Media Posts
• HCIL Launches new Blog Site: Sparks of Innovation: Stories from the HCIL
• Automatically Arranging Charts with Vistribute
• Something is Rank in the State of Data
• Jen Golbeck Discusses the Rise of Online Trolls and How People Can Protect Themselves from Online Harassment
• The HCIL Goes to Glasgow
• Keith Marzullo Discusses Joining iSchool, Latest UMD iSchool Projects, and Future of Cybersecurity on CC Podcast
• Visualizing for the Non-Visual
• Dr. Mega Subramaniam Receives Fulbright Specialist Grant Award to the Kyrgyz Republic to Explore Youth Engagement in Libraries
• Dr. Katie Shilton and Team of Researchers Investigate Individuals’ Perspectives on Sharing Smartphone Data for Mental Health
• UMD iSchool Alumnus, Julius Jefferson Jr. Wins 2020-2021 ALA Presidency
• Are You Posting Too Much About Your Kids Online?
• Jen Golbeck Discusses how Technology Invades our Lives in Ways we are Unaware
• MLIS Student, Ivy Donnell, First Winner of the ALCTS Scholarship
• UMD iSchool Professor, Dr. Jonathan Lazar, Receives Google Faculty Research Award
• Dr. Jen Golbeck Joins the Conversation on Preventing Objectionable Social Media Content
• Dr. Paletz Joins UMD iSchool as Research Professor
• The Maryland State Archives, Michael J. Kurtz Foundation, and the DCIC Announce the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland Research Cohort
• MLIS Alumna Uses Concepts Learned in MLIS Program to Make Metadata More Valuable to her Work at NASA
• Can you guess what an online search engine might look like in 2025?
• Priya Kumar Shares Thoughts on Need for Tech Companies to Consider Privacy Implications Before Creating Potentially Creepy Features
• USPS Kiosks Now Use Trace EZ Access Touch Screen Keypads
• UMD iSchool Announces Spring 2019 Beyond These Walls Student Travel Award Winners
• Dr. Mega Subramaniam Honored as 2019 Mover and Shaker for Contributions in Innovation and Leadership
• Dr. Jen Golbeck Shares Thoughts on Fans’ Trouble Distinguishing Between Reality and Celebrity Life
• Terry Reese Jr. Donates $2K MLIS Scholarship to UMD iSchool
• Eun Kyoung Choe Chimes in on App that Recognizes Food on a Plate to Automate Food Tracking
• UMD iSchool Hosts Big Data Archival Workshop
• What alchemy and astrology can teach artificial intelligence researchers
• Jessica Vitak Addresses Bill that Prohibits using DNA Databases to Solve Crime
• Computational Archival Science International Network to be Launched
• Team of UMD and UW Faculty Launch ConnectedLib Professional Development Toolkit for Youth-Serving Library Staff
• Interview with Holly McIntyre, Archivist at NASA Goddard and MLIS Program Alumna
• UMD iSchool Researcher, Joel Chan and Team’s, Analogical Innovation Paper Published in PNAS
• UMD iSchool Researcher, Ben Shneiderman’s, Creativity and Collaboration Paper Published in PNAS
• UMD iSchool Researchers Jennifer Preece and Tamara Clegg’s Interaction Design Paper Published in PNAS
• iSchool Alumnus Named RWA Librarian of the Year
• Dr. Naeemul Hassan to join the UMD colleges of Journalism and Information Studies
• UMD iSchool Welcomes 7 New Faculty Members
• Jen Golbeck Talks to Fortune About Twitter’s New Desktop Layout
• Christine Glaab Law Librarian Fellowship Established at University of Maryland
• Alumna Mary L. Hastler Awarded for Library Leadership
• 19 Bold Predictions for Science and Technology in 2019 (NBC) featuring Jen Golbeck
• Things to Do in College Park Over Winter Break
• Shneiderman Shakes Up Research World with Twin-Win Model, Challenging What Research is of Value
• UMD iSchool Awards More Than $75,000 in Fall 2018 Annual Scholarships
• UMD Researchers Explore New Direction in Assessing Information Inequality
• Scents of Things to Come: Researchers Add Smell to Virtual Reality
• New AI Systems to Interpret Police Body-Cam Video, but Researchers are Skeptical
• Longtime External Review Panelist Shares Valuable Insights Into Effective Reviewing
• UMD iSchool Trace Center to Tackle Accessibility Challenges of Tech Interfaces for People with Disabilities & Special Needs
• UMD iSchool Students Bring Home Major Wins from Hackathons
• UMD iSchool Faculty Members Named 2018 ACM Distinguished Members
• iSchool Announces 2018 Research Improvement Grants (RIGS) Winners
• Press Release: UMD Researchers Help Explain Why Machine Learning Algorithms Sometimes Generate Nonsensical Answers
• Loretta Parham Named 2018 Winner of James Partridge Award
• MLIS Alum Uses Knowledge and Passion to Improve Information Access for Future Queer and Trans People
• “Beyond These Walls” Award Winners Look Forward to Research and Learning Opportunities at Local and National Conferences
• UMD iSchool Shapes Future of how Libraries Serve Communities
• iSchool Hires New Team Members Fall 2018
• Dr. Mega Subramaniam Investigates Public Youth Librarians’ Efforts into Incorporate Digital Media Technologies in Youth Programming
• UMD Student Brittni Ballard Makes Health Fun for Middle-Schoolers with a Video Game
• Jen Golbeck Discusses the Departure of Instagram’s Founders
• Ana Ndumu, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher, Shares Her Findings on the Obstacles Black Immigrants Face in Accessing Information
• Kevin Beverly, MLS, Class of 1981
• Wendy Simmons, PhD, Class of 1990
• Alice Crites, MLS
• MLS Alumnus, Julius Jefferson, is in the Running for the 2020-2021 ALA Presidency
• PhD Candidate, Priya Kumar, Explores how Children Conceptualize Privacy Online
• HCIL Researchers are Presenting Six Papers at IEEE VIS 2018
• InfoSci Student, Brianna Queen, Recognized in DC Inno’s 25 Under 25
• Tracy Jeffcott, MLS, Class of 2012
• Fiona Jardine Wins Poster of Distinction for her Groundbreaking Research in Breastfeeding Without Nursing
• Dr. Diane Ledbetter Barlow, MLS, Class of 1975
• How UMD iSchool Students in Thailand Learned that Change Starts with Small Steps
• The iSchool Welcomes New Faculty This Fall
• Dr. Amanda Lazar Receives NSF Collaborative Grant
• Dr. Elizabeth M. Bonsignore, Dr. Brenna McNally, Dr. Evan Golub and HCIM student Diva Smriti et al. Win Best Poster at SOUPS 2018
• Kevin Beverly, a 1981 MLS Alumnus, Helps Local Disadvantaged Youth Realize Their Ambitions
• Jamuna Sundararajan, MIM, Class of 2005
• UMD iSchool Students Co-Design Digital Literacy Program with Homeless
• Marivel Soria Selected as the 2017-2018 Provost’s Professional Academic Advisor of the Year
• Melissa Wertheimer, MLIS, Class of 2017
• iSchool Faculty Members Dr. Tamara Clegg and Dr. Beth St. Jean Receive Tenure Positions
• Associate Professor Kari Kraus Awarded 11-month Residency at the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center
• Team of Researchers Led by UMD are Engaging Communities in Baltimore’s Smart City Transformation
• UMD Part of Multi-Institutional Team Awarded $14.4M to Develop Innovative Language Technologies
• MLIS Student Maya Reid Named ALA Spectrum Scholar
• David Baugh Announced as iSchool Director of IT and Facilities
• AI System Developed by UMD Researchers Faces off Against Humans in Trivia Match
• Dr. Helen Tibbo Honored with IU ILS Distinguished Alumni Award
• Dr. Amanda Lazar Receives Tier 1 Funding
• Katherine Izsak Joins Team as Director of Academic Programs and Lecturer
• iConference 2019: Call for Papers
• Dr. Amanda Waugh Wins Jesse H. Shera Award
• Jeff Waters and Erin Zerhusen Receive Staff Excellence Award
• Dean’s Opening Comments from the iSchool’s 2018 Commencement Ceremony
• The iSchool says farewell to Michael Kurtz, Jenny Preece, Lindsay Sarin
• Assistant Professor Amanda Lazar Published in Interactions
• Three iSchool Graduate Students Receive Prestigious UMD Awards
• Announcing the UMD iSchool 2017-18 Scholarship Recipients
• Eun Kyoung Choe Wins BBI FY18 Seed Grant
• David Weintrop and Tammy Clegg Developed Proposed Program to Train Teachers to Use Technology in the Classroom
• Dr. Diane Ledbetter Barlow (1941–2018), a Cornerstone of the iSchool Community
• Cathedral Libraries Study Abroad Experience