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The Conversation: How the Taliban’s New Regime Compares to the Last (feat. Cody Buntain)
Research by Dr. Buntain reveals changes in the Taliban’s oppressive tactics against women.

MD Today: How AI Could Help Writers Spot Stereotypes (feat. Niklas Elmqvist)
Tool to Identify Social Biases in Creative Writing Ultimately Leaves Artists in Control

Insight on Digital Curation for the Information Professional Certificate Program (DCIP)
A review of four capstone projects that utilized the skills acquired from the DCIP certificate program

Dr. Galina Reitz Develops iTAP a Collaborative Project Providing Technology Support to the Senior Community
Local stakeholders and engaged knowledgeable students are eager to teach, support, train and help with basic computer skills.

Dr. Cody Buntain Appears on Voice of America to Discuss the Taliban’s Use of Twitter
Research showing how the Taliban leveraged Twitter, and Twitter’s limited management of this, was shared with Voices of America’s g …

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Info College Faculty and Alumna Publish New Book on Information Literacy and Disinformation
Dr. Paul T. Jaeger co-authored "Foundations of Information Literacy," the first book to offer frameworks for tackling information liter …

3 Faculty Members Awarded $1.4 Million to Develop Library and Archival Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program awarded 3 Professors funding which suppor …

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 …