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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 …

Dr. Tamara Clegg

Dr. Tamara Clegg alongside Rubble from one of Nickelodeon’s newest shows, PAW Patrol.

iSchool Professor Dr. Tamara Clegg Stars in Nickelodeon Commercial

Hayleigh Moore - February 14, 2022

Clegg is an expert in youth experience and digital practices working with Nickelodeon to enhance its online learning platform, Noggin.

Pengyi Zhang headshot

PhD Alumni Spotlight: Science is a Social Process – Pengyi Zhang, ‘10

Hayleigh Moore - February 9, 2022

Connecting people with technology to enhance decision making, foster collaborative learning, and create more inclusive online communiti …

Break Through Tech DC logo with photos of the Sprinterns

Seven iSchool Undergraduates Join UMD’s First Sprinternship™

Hayleigh Moore - February 8, 2022

The students worked to create solutions to cybersecurity, IT, and other tech challenges while exploring career opportunities in informa …

Colorful illustration of woman sitting in front of a computer with graphs and data-related imagery

Illustration by iStock

Social Data Science Major to Debut in February

Rachael Grahame - February 2, 2022

New B.S. degree program to teach students how to collect, analyze data for fast-growing fields.

Colorful illustration that reads "Black History Month: February 1 through March 1"

Black History Month in Maryland, Get Involved

UMD iSchool Staff - February 1, 2022

This month, UMD and MD Libraries honor black history with public events, discussions, film festivals, resources. Here is a compiled lis …

NPR Weekend Edition

NPR: TikTok creator makes the recipes she finds on gravestones

UMD iSchool Staff - January 28, 2022

Journalist Scott Simon talks with iSchool graduate student Rosie Grant about the food she's cooked from recipes found on gravestones.