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Hailla Vinson, InfoSci '20
Alumni Profile: From Dance to Data: One Alum’s Journey to a Fulfilling Tech Career
A profile of InfoSci alum Hailla Vinson
INFO Hosts 8th Annual Info Challenge
Students tackle real-world problems with innovation and collaboration
Duncan Squires, InfoSci '19
Alumni Profile: From Robotics to Data Engineering: How One Alum Bridges Tech and Business
A profile of InfoSci alum Duncan Squires
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UX Design to the Rescue: Transforming ER Visits and Other Involuntary Experiences
INFO Assistant Professor Caro Williams-Pierce is developing design recommendations as a member of Prince George's County’s ER Task Fo …
Waleed Akram, InfoSci '22
Alumni Profile: The Innovator Bridging Cultures and Solving Problems
A profile of InfoSci alum Waleed Akram
A UMD-led multidisciplinary team is developing a large-scale, open-source dataset for AI model training tools focused on K–12 math education that aims to increase accuracy and representation in educational AI systems. Photo by Adobe Stock.
Maryland Today: UMD Researchers to Build AI Database to Improve Math Learning Outcomes (ft. Wei Ai)
Project Funded by $4.5M Philanthropic Grant Aims to Help Teachers, Students, Researcher and Edtech Industry
Hornbake Library, a University library in College Park, Maryland
Alumni Profile: From Trailblazing Librarian to Acclaimed Author: A Journey of Cultural Bridges and Academic Excellence
A profile of Ben Igwe, INFO’s first Black PhD graduate
“If you ask policymakers, ‘How big is the attack surface on a state or national level?’ they would say, ‘I don’t know,’” said UMD Associate Research Professor Charles Harry. His research team used open-source tools to find the answers. Illustration by iStock.
Maryland Today: UMD Researchers Calculate Cyberattack Risk for All 50 States
Scholars Aggregate Threats to Thousands of County Governments to Draw Conclusions
This 1900 image of the Carlisle Indian School football team includes one of Assistant Professor Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner's ancestors. She said this and the photo of her great-great-great grandmother Joaquina Nahwilet (image at bottom) is a rare example of good photo metadata; improving the tools in archival research is a primary goal of the new Indigenous archives project she's co-leading. Photo by John N. Choate/Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Maryland Today: UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives
Project co-led by INFO and ARHU will develop tools, standards, and reparative practices to restore indigenous histories