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MLIS Student Aaron Wilson Awarded ALA Spectrum Scholarship
What was a safe place during his childhood is now a place that has become his career path.
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 …
Two UMD Info College PhD Students Awarded ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellowships
This year’s Fellows will work to expand social justice curricula and increase support for doctoral students and faculty in LIS fields …
Dr. Zubin Jelveh: Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It
Using arrest and victimization records from the Chicago PD, a machine learning model can predict the risk of being shot in the next 18 …
UMD Info College Welcomes Eleven New Faculty Members
With strengths in library and archives innovation, experiential design, online and social media communities, sociotechnical and cultura …
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Two UMD Info College Faculty Members Establish New Archival Repatriation Committee
The new Committee is a major step towards enacting more Native and Indigenous repatriation archival policy.
