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A collage of bright abstract patternswith colours of red, purple, green, andgold frame a hand drawn face with looping black lines. Above the face reads the title of the JournalIncluding Disability. This is also handwritten in beautiful cursive vertically at the centre of the page,overlapping with the colourful cutout

Created by Alex Pilon, Artistic Director, Including Disability

iSchool Faculty and Staff Join Global Team to Launch New Publication

April 15, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore

"Including Disability" offers innovative approaches to eliminating systemic barriers and gives voice to disabled people.

The Embodied Labs logo which features a silhouette of a human head with a white letter E over top, and text to the right that reads "Embodied Labs." A collage of images showing older adults laughing and screenshots of a VR experience are to the left of the logo.

MLIS Alumni Spotlight: The Joys of Aging Using VR – Erin Washington, MLIS ‘09

April 13, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore

Creating first-person, virtual reality experiences to enhance empathy and address growing issues in the caretaking industry.

The HCIL logo, which is a white circle with black trim and the text HCIL written inside next to an illustrated drawing of a silhouetted side profile. The HCIL logo is next to the CHI logo that reads "CHI 2022" in front of a purple silhouette of the New Orleans skyline.

HCIL Faculty and Students to Participate in CHI 2022

April 12, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore

23 members of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab will present their research at prestigious HCI conference.

Professor Richard Marciano, and students Isaac Hernandez and Akif Zaman team stand next to Haruo Kawate. They are standing in front of green shrubbery on University of Maryland's campus

Image courtesy of AIC

AIC: UMD Student Project Featured on Japanese Television

April 11, 2022 | iSchool News Staff

The students' research follows second generation Japanese American who was forcibly removed from his home after the attacks on Pearl Ha …

University of Maryland President Darryll Pines stands at a podium with the Info Challenge logo behind him on a projector

iSchool Hosts 5th Annual Info Challenge

April 7, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore

This week-long event engaged students from across the region in cybersecurity, design, and data analytics projects to tackle real-world …

Elementary students in a computer lab with the teacher observing.

(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Supporting Children’s Online Information Discovery

April 6, 2022 | iSchool News Staff

Dr. Jerry Alan Fails and Dr. Sole Pera present CAST, a new search engine interface developed to empower emergent searchers and improve …

Screenshot of articles from Niklas Elmqvist's blog, VisUMD

VisUMD publication on Medium.com (Image courtesy of Nightingale)

Blog This: Transforming How Students Engage and Learn from Visualization Research

March 28, 2022 | iSchool News Staff

Writer Alexandra Khoo chats with iSchool Professor Niklas Elmqvist about the origins of his popular data visualization blog, VisUMD.

Two students sitting in front of laptops with the screen's reflection showing in their glasses

Photo by Jeswin Thomas on Unsplash

iSchool Professor Receives $1 Million NSF CAREER Grant to Develop Data Science Curriculum

March 28, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore

Dr. David Weintrop will be working with D.C. Public Schools to address inequities in high school data science education.

Testudo with Giving Day 2022 logo

Maryland Giving Day – March 9, 2022

March 8, 2022 | Hayleigh Moore

Read about one student's inspirational story and how Giving Day is helped her pursue a degree in information science.