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Preserving Science Through Storytelling: MLIS Student Supports Audiovisual History at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives
MLIS student Jamila Hinds helps preserve and inventory decades of STEM media at NBLA
Anastasia Armendariz, MLIS '22
A Career in Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future
A profile of MLIS alum Anastasia Armendariz
Sparsh Paliwal, HCIM '23
How One Alum Went From Doodling to Design Systems
A profile of HCIM alum Sparsh Paliwal
Nearly two dozen AI projects from a host of disciplines and departments across the UMD campus were funded through a new seed grant program administered by the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM). Illustration by iStock
Maryland Today: AIM Seed Grants Support 22 AI Research Projects
INFO's Vanessa Frías Martínez, Hernisa Kacorri, and Katie Shilton are driving interdisciplinary AI research through UMD’s new $1.5M …
Reimagining Information Access: How INFO Is Centering Immigrant Voices in Tech, Policy & Archives
The Immigration and International Information Research Alliance (i3r) flips traditional scholarship on its head, treating immigrants as …
Katie Baron InfoSci ’25. Photo by Riley N. Sims.
Maryland Today: Carrying Students Through to Commencement
INFO grad Katie Baron ’25 turned hardship into opportunity, launching a mobile auto repair business while earning her degree
Information Science Student Swechchha Shrestha. Photo courtesy of Maryland Today.
Maryland Today: ‘Remarkable Humanity and Depth of Thought’
INFO student Swechchha Shrestha named a University Medalist runner-up for her leadership, service, and dedication to tech for good
SoDa Symposium: “Crowdsourced Adaptive Surveys”
Featuring Yamil Ricardo Velez, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University
Physics Professor Wolfgang Losert, one of the winners of UMD's Invention of the Year competition, holds a plaque onstage at Innovate Maryland on Tuesday. Also pictured (from left): UM Ventures Innovation Managers Virinchi Juttukonda and Ashwin Ramanujam, Chief Innovation Officer Dean Chang, Vice President for Research Gregory F. Ball, UM Ventures Associate Director Felicia Metz and UM Ventures-College Park Director Ken Porter. Photos by Mike Morgan.
Maryland Today: AI With Rhythm: Brain-Inspired Tech Wins 2025 Invention of the Year Award
INFO faculty contributed to brain-inspired AI method that won UMD’s 2025 Invention of the Year