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Medium: Engaging the Commons in Participatory Sensing
Research on participatory sensing, the practice of using human participants to gather data on their mobile devices from their environm …

David Weintrop Awarded Prestigious National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. David Weintrop receives $70K award to integrate computing and the powerful ideas of computer science into classrooms.

School Library Journal: COVID-19 Is an Opportunity to Rethink Youth Librarianship | Reimagining Libraries, featuring Mega Subramaniam
Discusses how libraries have adapted to continue serving their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brookings: Where Would Racial Progress in Policing be Without Camera Phones? featuring Nicol Turner Lee
Technology is becoming part of the story regarding how marginalized populations in the U.S.

Digital Privacy News: Ease of Voice Recognition Technology Brings Great Risks, featuring Jessica Vitak
Technology creates additional convenience for users, it poses a threat to their privacy.

Student Archivists at Maryland – Call for New Student Members!
This is a momentous year for SAM as we are turning 25!

November GradTerp Exchange speakers: Donny Pearson (Physics), Nicole Barbour (Biology), Karrin Thompson (Library and Information Science)(left to right)
Stepping Outside of the Comfort Zone: An MLIS Student’s Experience Presenting at GradTerp Exchange
GradTerp Exchange is a monthly speaker series in which The Graduate School invites 3-4 graduate students and postdocs to share their re …

Would you make a good Information Detective? Explaining the career of an Open Source Intelligence Professional, featuring Mary Ann Francis
Have you ever wondered about privacy and the data that operating systems, search engines, and social networks collect about you?

New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry
The CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) grant is funded through the National Science Foundation to provide educational and profes …