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MD Today: Accolades: Faculty and Staff Awards and Honors (ft. Ido Sivan-Sevilla and Gregg Vanderheiden)
A Roundup of Recent Accomplishments

AP News: Meta’s Enforcement of Manipulated Media Policies (ft. Jen Golbeck)
INFO Professor Jen Golbeck comments on online misinformation

UMIACS: Vanessa Frias-Martinez Part of UMD Effort to Reduce Food Insecurity and Waste
FoodLoops app aims to redistribute surplus food

Photo caption: U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo announced the AI Safety Institute Consortium on Feb. 8 at a press conference in Washington, D.C.
UMD Joins National Consortium Dedicated to Improving AI Trustworthiness and Safety
Multiple research centers and programs challenge the ethics of AI

Collection Development, Preparing Future Librarians for Challenges Ahead
Interview with Maggie Zarnosky Saponaro, Director of Collection Development Strategies.

From left, Megan Newcombe, Min Wu, Rita Colwell, Jessica Vitak, Mia Smith-Bynum, Stephanie Lansing and Kawthar Zaki. All experienced moments of uncertainty in forging their careers in science, where women are a distinct minority, but found inspiration to continue.
MD Today: The Science of Perseverance (ft. Jessica Vitak)
UMD female scientists reflect on overcoming moments of doubt

(Video) SODA Symposium: Data Literacy and Evidence Building – Birds of a Feather
Labor economists speak on national data efforts