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MLIS Faculty and Students Partner with Piscataway Leaders to Curate an Inventory of Piscataway Materials
The INFO College's MLIS Curriculum Uses Hands-on Approach to Train Future Archivists

ARLIS: UMD Researchers Measure Social Media Sharing with Emotions (ft. Susannah Paletz)
4,000+ Facebook posts were analyzed to determine the ability of different emotion models to predict post sharing.

Photo collage by Maryland Today staff featuring left to right: David Betancourt, Amber Wendland, Michael Prakhye, Cara Grant, Brent Barbee
Maryland Today: The Cool Day Jobs of UMD’s Adjunct Professors (ft. Michael Prakhye)
How 5 Lecturers Bring Real-World Expertise to the Classroom

(Video) Founders of Popular Crowdsourcing Transcription Software FromThePage Speak at CAFe Speaker Series
Sara Brumfield and Ben Brumfield talk about AI’s impact on archives at the recent INFO event

Recent Study Finds People with Dementia Use Changing Information Behaviors when Seeking Health Information
INFO Assistant Professor Amanda Lazar and a team of researchers studied how people with dementia search for health information after di …

UMD Rises in U.S. News’ Rankings of National Universities
Maryland Is No. 19 Among Public Schools, Jumps Nine Spots in Overall Rating

As touchscreens proliferate in daily life, from coffee shops to airports, people who are blind or visually impaired are often unable to access important digital information. UMD researchers have developed a new robot that could help bridge the gap
Photo by iStock; Toucha11y photo courtesy of Jiasheng Li.
Maryland Today: An Ally for Access (ft. Huaishu Peng)
Palm-sized Robot Navigates Touchscreens for Visually Impaired Users