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Professor Richard Marciano, and students Isaac Hernandez and Akif Zaman team stand next to Haruo Kawate. They are standing in front of green shrubbery on University of Maryland's campus

Image courtesy of AIC

AIC: UMD Student Project Featured on Japanese Television

iSchool News Staff - April 11, 2022

The students' research follows second generation Japanese American who was forcibly removed from his home after the attacks on Pearl Ha …

Screenshot of articles from Niklas Elmqvist's blog, VisUMD

VisUMD publication on Medium.com (Image courtesy of Nightingale)

Blog This: Transforming How Students Engage and Learn from Visualization Research

iSchool News Staff - March 28, 2022

Writer Alexandra Khoo chats with iSchool Professor Niklas Elmqvist about the origins of his popular data visualization blog, VisUMD.

A black woman in a dark room looking down at a smartphone

Photo by Chad Madden on Unsplash

“Drawing Conclusions” – Identity Formation in the Digital Age

Hayleigh Moore - March 11, 2022

iSchool undergraduate student uses art to present her research into technology’s influence on ethnic identity formation.

Testudo with Giving Day 2022 logo

Maryland Giving Day – March 9, 2022

Hayleigh Moore - March 8, 2022

Read about one student's inspirational story and how Giving Day is helped her pursue a degree in information science.

Headshots of Hawa Jalloh and Shannon Bland over a pink and purple background

Images courtesy of Hawa Jalloh (left) and Shannon Bland (right)

MLIS Alumnae Use Instagram to Amplify Black Excellence in Librarianship

Hayleigh Moore - March 3, 2022

Read about two alumnae who are creating spaces for current and aspiring librarians and authors of color.

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 …

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.

Two women looking into the camera smiling

Precious Abujana (left) and Andrea N Gutmann Fuentes (right)

iSchool Students Precious Abujana and Andrea Gutmann Fuentes awarded 2021 ALA Spectrum Scholarships

Hayleigh Moore - October 14, 2021

Abujana and Fuentes are among the American Library Association’s 60 Spectrum Scholarship award recipients for 2021.

Dr. Jonathan Lazar giving a presentation with a slide that reads: "What do we mean by digital accessibility?

Dr. Jonathan Lazar Delivering a Lecture on Digital Accessibility

Jonathan Lazar Named Director of the Trace R&D Center

Liz Zogby - October 11, 2021

After 50 years, Trace Founder and Director Gregg Vanderheiden passes the gavel to a new director to carry the Trace legacy of accessibi …