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Online-Only Services Offer Safety, But May Limit Access
As a result of the covid-19 pandemic, interaction with websites and apps sometimes become the only way to access certain goods and serv …
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iSchool Faculty and Staff Join Global Team to Launch New Publication
"Including Disability" offers innovative approaches to eliminating systemic barriers and gives voice to disabled people.
iSchool Hosts 5th Annual Info Challenge
This week-long event engaged students from across the region in cybersecurity, design, and data analytics projects to tackle real-world …
Dean's Lecture Series: Dr. Debbie Chachra
(Video) Dean’s Lecture Series: Rocks, Clouds, and Lightning: Energy, Materiality, and Infrastructural Systems
Dr. Debbie Chachra presents how renewable energy has the potential to transform the material world.
Image: From Alphabet Inc.'s defunct Sidewalk Labs: Quayside project, Toronto.
REAL LIFE MAG: Seeing Without Looking
Sidewalk Toronto is dead, but its legacy shows there are more ways to violate one’s privacy than collecting one’s image.
HR Brew: Employee surveillance is exploding with remote work (feat. Jessica Vitak)
Journalist Sam Blum examines how the expansion of worker surveillance runs the risk of shattering employees’ trust.
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UMD Researchers Awarded $159K NSF Grant to Expand Wi-Fi Access in Regional Parks
iSchool's Beth Bonsignore joins interdisciplinary team to expand Wi-Fi infrastructure in urban greenspaces.
STEM Education Struggle in the U.S.: The Key Piece We’ve Been Missing
In The Promise of Access, Dr. Daniel Greene shares a radical perspective on why tech solutions aren’t solving complex socia …
Jesse Anderson, College of Information Studies (left); Veeraj Shah, School of Public Health (right)
Jesse Anderson, InfoSci ’22, to Compete as Finalist in the UMD Do Good Challenge!
Anderson and partner Veeraj Shah's startup nonprofit organization, Chat Health, will be showcased as the competition continues through …