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UMIACS: Plaisant Retires, Concluding Stellar 34-Year Career at UMD
Concluding a 34-year career at UMD that is marked by many notable contributions in research, scholarship and service.

STEM Education Struggle in the U.S.: The Key Piece We’ve Been Missing
In The Promise of Access, Dr. Daniel Greene shares a radical perspective on why tech solutions aren’t solving complex socia …

A Library’s Guidebook to Surviving During Crisis: Now Available
Developed by LIS experts + 137 library staff across the nation innovating to serve their communities during COVID-19 and civic unrest.

New Partnership Aims to Help UMD Further Diversify D.C. Region’s Tech Ecosystem
To increase female-identifying and non-binary students graduating with a tech degree at UMD by 12.5% in the next 5 years.

George Mason & University of Maryland to Leverage 311 Data for Increased DMV Resilience During a Pandemic
Funded by the NSF, the team aims to provide tools to governments to better respond to regional disasters and crises.

UMAICS: Harnessing Data Science to Improve the Social Good, featuring Wei Ai
Using machine learning techniques to influence positive behavior.

(Illustration by Lauren Biagini courtesy of Maryland Today)
Maryland Today: Don’t Take the (Click)bait, featuring Naeemul Hassan
Creating tools to combat clickbait online.