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Brookings: Where Would Racial Progress in Policing be Without Camera Phones? featuring Nicol Turner Lee

Nicol Turner Lee - June 12, 2020

Technology is becoming part of the story regarding how marginalized populations in the U.S.

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Digital Privacy News: Ease of Voice Recognition Technology Brings Great Risks, featuring Jessica Vitak

Jessica Vitak - June 12, 2020

Technology creates additional convenience for users, it poses a threat to their privacy.

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Student Archivists at Maryland – Call for New Student Members!

Karina Kletscher, UMD iSchool MLIS Student - June 12, 2020

This is a momentous year for SAM as we are turning 25!

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November GradTerp Exchange speakers: Donny Pearson (Physics), Nicole Barbour (Biology), Karrin Thompson (Library and Information Science)(left to right)

Stepping Outside of the Comfort Zone: An MLIS Student’s Experience Presenting at GradTerp Exchange

Karrin Thompson, UMD iSchool MLIS Student - June 12, 2020

GradTerp Exchange is a monthly speaker series in which The Graduate School invites 3-4 graduate students and postdocs to share their re …

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Would you make a good Information Detective? Explaining the career of an Open Source Intelligence Professional, featuring Mary Ann Francis

Mary Ann Francis - June 12, 2020

Have you ever wondered about privacy and the data that operating systems, search engines, and social networks collect about you?

New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry

New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry

ACES - June 11, 2020

The CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) grant is funded through the National Science Foundation to provide educational and profes …

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Building Community Through Coursework

Eric Hing-Tao Hung Mea Lee, K. Sarah Ostrach - June 11, 2020

Community engagement has become an increasingly important component of libraries and archives professions.

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MLIS Students Get Hands-on Experience Digitizing Documents

Morgan Adle - June 4, 2020

MLIS students specializing in Archives and Digital Curation seek hands-on experience digitizing historic material.