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iSchool Professor Receives $1 Million NSF CAREER Grant to Develop Data Science Curriculum

Hayleigh Moore - March 28, 2022

Dr. David Weintrop will be working with D.C. Public Schools to address inequities in high school data science education.

A black woman in a dark room looking down at a smartphone

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“Drawing Conclusions” – Identity Formation in the Digital Age

Hayleigh Moore - March 11, 2022

iSchool undergraduate student uses art to present her research into technology’s influence on ethnic identity formation.

Testudo with Giving Day 2022 logo

Maryland Giving Day – March 9, 2022

Hayleigh Moore - March 8, 2022

Read about one student's inspirational story and how Giving Day is helped her pursue a degree in information science.

Students walking outside of Hornbake Library on a sunny day

Hornbake Library, a University library in College Park, Maryland

iSchool Admits First Student to New Combined Bachelor’s/Master’s Program

Hayleigh Moore - March 7, 2022

Students can now graduate with a B.S. in Information Science and a M.S. in Library and Information Science in just five years.

Woman pointing to screen

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Preparing for the Big Day

- March 4, 2022

Guidelines for defending your Ph.D. proposal or dissertation.

Collage of images of well-known women in history with text that reads Women's History Month

Images courtesy of the National Women's History Museum

Celebrate Women’s History Month From Anywhere

iSchool News Staff - March 1, 2022

Explore the National Women's History Museum's collection of virtual exhibits and learn about trailblazing women, past and present.

Data Visualization

Image courtesy of the Trace Center

Expanding the Possibilities for Accessible Data Visualization

Liz Zogby - February 24, 2022

iSchool professor and Trace affiliate faculty Dr. Niklas Elmqvist leads a team to continue work on accessible data visualization and to …

Alphabet Inc.'s defunct Sidewalk Labs: Quayside project, Toronto.

Image: From Alphabet Inc.'s defunct Sidewalk Labs: Quayside project, Toronto.

REAL LIFE MAG: Seeing Without Looking

M.R. Sauter - February 17, 2022

Sidewalk Toronto is dead, but its legacy shows there are more ways to violate one’s privacy than collecting one’s image.

UMD’s Social Data Science Center (SoDa) on Feb. 8

Illustration by Darren Garrett

(Video) SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science

iSchool News Staff - February 15, 2022

Researchers from UMD and Cornell University discuss the ethical dilemmas in social data science and how ethnographic studies can help g …