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Tackling Childhood Literacy: A Grand Challenge
An institutional grant addresses skills that go beyond the classroom
Five Projects Awarded the Inaugural SoDa Seed Grant
Funding provided to projects that seek to solve social media misinformation, vulnerable community infrastructure, and racial injustice
Illustration by Valerie Morgan
Maryland Today: Why Is Everyone Joining Threads? (ft. Jen Golbeck)
Twitter’s new rival surges despite snags - a UMD social media expert explains why
Library Journal: ALA Approves New Library Service Standards for the Incarcerated or Detained (ft. Victoria Van Hyning)
INFO Assistant Professor Victoria Van Hyning was among the group who oversaw the revision.
IEEE Spectrum: A Wearable Robotic Assistant That’s All Over You (ft. Ge Gao)
Calico is a little robot that can zip around your clothing to help you out.
Photo by Ant Rozetsky / Unsplash
New App to Empower Baltimoreans to Advocate for Better Public Transit
INFO and BSOS are working on a toolkit to help determine the pain points Baltimoreans experience on their commutes.
Researchers Use Deep Learning, VHR Satellite Imagery to Map Artillery Craters in Eastern Ukraine
INFO Assistant Professor Sergii Skakun examines detecting and mapping artillery craters in Eastern Ukraine.
