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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.

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.

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 …

MLIS Students Get Hands-on Experience Digitizing Documents
MLIS students specializing in Archives and Digital Curation seek hands-on experience digitizing historic material.

Getting Personal: How People Who are Blind Can Leverage AI to Access the Visual World
The Teachable Object Recognizer mobile application uses AI and machine learning to help access the visual world.

Two UMD iSchool Faculty Members Join FAS COVID-19 Task Force
The Federation of American Scientists has assembled teams of world-class experts to examine and advise on various facets of the COVID …