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School Library Journal: COVID-19 Is an Opportunity to Rethink Youth Librarianship | Reimagining Libraries, featuring Mega Subramaniam
June 12, 2020 | Mega SubramaniamDiscusses 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
June 12, 2020 | Jessica VitakTechnology creates additional convenience for users, it poses a threat to their privacy.

New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry
June 11, 2020 | ACESThe 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
June 4, 2020 | Morgan AdleMLIS 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
May 29, 2020 | Hayleigh MooreThe 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
May 29, 2020 | iSchool NewsThe Federation of American Scientists has assembled teams of world-class experts to examine and advise on various facets of the COVID …

Student-Athletes’ Use of Their Performance Data; Evaluating Tech to Regulate Anxiety – UMD iSchool Papers Awarded at CHI 2020
May 21, 2020 | iSchool NewsThe ACM annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) is considered the most prestigious in the field of human–comput …