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NPR: TikTok creator makes the recipes she finds on gravestones
January 28, 2022 | UMD iSchool StaffJournalist Scott Simon talks with iSchool graduate student Rosie Grant about the food she's cooked from recipes found on gravestones.

CAP students in the Expanded Arts Summer Job Program enjoy a lunch break, circa 1970 (Photo courtesy of Robert Breck Chapman Photographs at Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore)
Uncovering the Buried History of Baltimore’s Arts and Culture
January 27, 2022 | Hayleigh MooreThe Inheritance Baltimore program is one of the many ways MLIS alumna, Angela Koukoui, is providing better access to her community's hi …

Congratulations to the Fall 2021 iSchool Scholarship Recipients
December 22, 2021 | Mia K. Hinckle16 students from across programs have been recognized for excellence in their work and studies.

Katrina Fenlon to Support New Commission to Foster Digital Humanities Projects on Social and Racial Justice
December 10, 2021 | Press ReleaseThe Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship will look at improving the support, access, and sustainability o …

Preserving the Legacy of an American Opera Icon
November 11, 2021 | Jessica GrimmerMLIS student shares her experience at the Library of Congress processing the materials of the late opera singer, Jessye Norman.

Precious Abujana (left) and Andrea N Gutmann Fuentes (right)
iSchool Students Precious Abujana and Andrea Gutmann Fuentes awarded 2021 ALA Spectrum Scholarships
October 14, 2021 | Hayleigh MooreAbujana and Fuentes are among the American Library Association’s 60 Spectrum Scholarship award recipients for 2021.

Spooktacular Field Study: Adding Congressional Cemetery Graves to Google Arts and Culture
October 8, 2021 | Rosie GrantiSchool MLIS student, Rosie Grant, shares her internship experience as a digital archivist for one of DC’s oldest cemeteries.

Banned Books Week 2021 – ALA’s Most Challenged Books List for 2020 Revealed
September 29, 2021 | Hayleigh MooreThe Hate U Give, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian among the American Library A …