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Dr. Cody Buntain | Photo Credit UMIACS
UMIACS: Keeping Up with the Crises: Buntain Builds Digital Tools to Combat Misinformation (ft. Cody Buntain)
July 25, 2023 | Melissa Brachfeld | UMIACSAn overview of one professor's research and areas of interest

News Release: Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) Launches
July 21, 2023 | INFO StaffLed by the UMD INFO College, MIDA aims to change technology design to include disability communities as equal partners, proactively bui …

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Maryland Today: Unexploded Ordnance Is Scattered Across Ukraine’s Front Lines. UMD Researchers Are Mapping Hot Spots With AI. (ft. Sergii Skakun)
July 19, 2023 | MD Today StaffShells, Rockets Fired in Wake of Russia’s Invasion Could Kill for Decades if Left in Place

Health Care Barriers: Screening and Referral for Social Determinants of Health in Maternity Care
July 17, 2023 | Olivia BorgulaA Q&A with INFO Associate Professor Amelia Gibson

Tackling Childhood Literacy: A Grand Challenge
July 14, 2023 | INFO StaffAn institutional grant addresses skills that go beyond the classroom

Five Projects Awarded the Inaugural SoDa Seed Grant
July 12, 2023 | Info StaffFunding provided to projects that seek to solve social media misinformation, vulnerable community infrastructure, and racial injustice

Lakeland Road near Rhode Island Avenue circa 1965. Photo courtesy of Lakeland Digital Archive
A Community Archive Preserves the History of a 130-year-old African American Community
July 10, 2023 | Laurie RobinsonLakeland is immortalized in digital form with help from MITH and INFO.