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PhD Alumni Spotlight: Empowering Kids and Adults to Design Better Together – Greg Walsh, ‘12
Alumni’s PhD experience inspired the launch of two research groups to develop new technology for youth and other in-need communities. …
iSchool Hosts 5th Annual Info Challenge
This week-long event engaged students from across the region in cybersecurity, design, and data analytics projects to tackle real-world …
(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Supporting Children’s Online Information Discovery
Dr. Jerry Alan Fails and Dr. Sole Pera present CAST, a new search engine interface developed to empower emergent searchers and improve …
VisUMD publication on Medium.com (Image courtesy of Nightingale)
Blog This: Transforming How Students Engage and Learn from Visualization Research
Writer Alexandra Khoo chats with iSchool Professor Niklas Elmqvist about the origins of his popular data visualization blog, VisUMD.
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iSchool Professor Receives $1 Million NSF CAREER Grant to Develop Data Science Curriculum
Dr. David Weintrop will be working with D.C. Public Schools to address inequities in high school data science education.
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“Drawing Conclusions” – Identity Formation in the Digital Age
iSchool undergraduate student uses art to present her research into technology’s influence on ethnic identity formation.
Maryland Giving Day – March 9, 2022
Read about one student's inspirational story and how Giving Day is helped her pursue a degree in information science.
