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Maryland Giving Day – March 9, 2022
March 8, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreRead about one student's inspirational story and how Giving Day is helped her pursue a degree in information science.
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Preparing for the Big Day
March 4, 2022 |Guidelines for defending your Ph.D. proposal or dissertation.
Dean's Lecture Series: Dr. Debbie Chachra
(Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: Rocks, Clouds, and Lightning: Energy, Materiality, and Infrastructural Systems
March 3, 2022 | iSchool News StaffDr. Debbie Chachra presents how renewable energy has the potential to transform the material world.
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Expanding the Possibilities for Accessible Data Visualization
February 24, 2022 | Liz ZogbyiSchool professor and Trace affiliate faculty Dr. Niklas Elmqvist leads a team to continue work on accessible data visualization and to …
Image: From Alphabet Inc.'s defunct Sidewalk Labs: Quayside project, Toronto.
REAL LIFE MAG: Seeing Without Looking
February 17, 2022 | M.R. SauterSidewalk Toronto is dead, but its legacy shows there are more ways to violate one’s privacy than collecting one’s image.
Illustration by Darren Garrett
(Video) SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science
February 15, 2022 | iSchool News StaffResearchers from UMD and Cornell University discuss the ethical dilemmas in social data science and how ethnographic studies can help g …
NPR: TikTok creator makes the recipes she finds on gravestones
January 28, 2022 | UMD iSchool StaffJournalist Scott Simon talks with iSchool graduate student Rosie Grant about the food she's cooked from recipes found on gravestones.
