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Project Aims to Convey Big Data With Sound and Touch
NSF-Funded Research Would Expand Employment, Education Opportunities for Blind Data Users.
Congratulations to the Fall 2022 INFO College Scholarship Recipients
17 students from across programs have been recognized for excellence in their work and studies.
Morphic: Advancing Social Equity Through Digital Inclusion
A growing pool of users at libraries, colleges, and job centers across the US and in Canada have the opportunity to take advantage of M …
A farmer tends crops in Uganda, an area where bias in AI algorithms monitoring global crop health might misinterpret data due to a lack of knowledge of local growing methods. Photo by Nuno Almeida, Dreamstime.com
UMD Co-leads $750K NSF, Amazon Project to Tackle AI Bias in Mapping
INFO College's Dr. Sergii Skakun will play a key role in building the system that could enable fairer, safer decisions on resource dist …
Two UMD Info College PhD Students Awarded ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellowships
This year’s Fellows will work to expand social justice curricula and increase support for doctoral students and faculty in LIS fields …
Jane Robbins (left) and Mary Keefer (right), 1988. Image courtesy of the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Digital Collection.
Alumni Profile: Jane Robbins, PhD ‘72
The iSchool catches up with the its first PhD graduate as she shares her legacy as one of the most influential leaders in library scien …
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. …
