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A group of students and faculty stand together on a stage at Korea University Seoul Campus during the 2025 Climate Corps Summer School. Several students wear matching green shirts and hold red Korea University folders and small teddy bear mascots. At center, they display a sign reading “Third Prize – Climate Corps Summer School 2025” for a business plan team. Information science student Nicholas Schiavone stands among the group holding a red folder.

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Maryland Global: Code, Collaboration and Climate Solutions

February 13, 2026 | Maryland Today Staff | UMD

Information Science alum Nicholas Schiavone applied tech and data skills to support climate refugees in global competition

A high-tech library with digital book retrieval systems and interactive learning tools.

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Emerging Voices: INFO’s Doctoral Scholars Shape the Future of LIS Education

January 6, 2026 | Laurie Robinson

Four PhD students are part of the 2025 cohort of ALISE Emerging Scholars

Head shot of HCIM alum Kaush Ganesh Portrait of a woman wearing glasses and a maroon sweater, standing inside a gondola with soft pink and red tones and a blurred cityscape outside.

Kaush Ganesh, HCIM '20

Alumni Profile: The Human Firewall: Why Cybersecurity Needs UX

January 6, 2026 | Laurie Robinson

A profile of HCIM alum Kaush Ganesh

A woman with a prosthetic leg performs a side stretch on a blue yoga mat in a bright living room while following a workout on a laptop placed on a nearby coffee table.

AI Coach Transforms Physical Therapy at Home

December 18, 2025 | Laurie Robinson

MD-based startup and INFO researchers are helping to solve the problem of compliance with physical therapy through a human-like AI coac …

Person holding a smartphone interacts with an AI chatbot interface, shown as a glowing robot icon and message bubble on the screen.

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UMIACS: Building AI That Keeps Users Safe Across Cultures and Crises (ft. Vanessa Frias-Martinez)

December 15, 2025 | Melissa Brachfeld | UMIACS

INFO Professor Vanessa Frías-Martínez helps build trustworthy AI systems that deliver guidance in high-stakes situations

An illustration of a person standing beside a large computer interface displaying icons for global learning, professional tools, and creativity, with additional graphics of gears and an AI head symbolizing artificial intelligence in education.

UMD researchers and educators are working to improve AI and to understand how the technology is transforming the ways we teach, learn and prepare for an AI-driven world. (Illustration by iStock) via Maryland Today

Maryland Today: Spotlight on AI: UMD Transforms Every Stage of Education

November 4, 2025 | Maryland Today Staff | UMD

INFO’s Wei Ai co-leads a UMD project using AI to enhance K–12 math instruction and teacher development

Two male students are seated at a table in a classroom. The student in the foreground, wearing a dark baseball cap, is smiling while knitting with red yarn. The student seated behind him is also smiling and watching.

Chandler Colman ‘28 (left) and Samir Nazar ‘28 work on their final projects for “Knitting = Algorithms + Coding," one of 10 Maker Movement Approach to Computing classes offered this fall. The one-credit courses are designed to make it easier for students of all majors to learn about computing. (Photos by Dylan Singleton)

Maryland Today: Courses Bring Comfort to Learning Computing

October 23, 2025 | Karen Shih ’09 | Maryland Today

INFO faculty bridge creativity and computing, teaching hands-on AI, coding, and design through the Maker Movement at Maryland

A student wearing a virtual reality headset stands in front of a chalkboard covered with coding notes, while another student in the foreground types on a laptop during a classroom technology activity.

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Building Trust in AI, One Block at a Time

October 23, 2025 | Laurie Robinson

A unique partnership is closing the digital divide by creating community-led AI literacy programs for underserved youth and families

A person demonstrates an AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) app on a tablet while two others observe, one smiling and wearing a red shirt with a name tag. The interaction appears to take place at a research or technology event.

Assistant Professor Stephanie Valencia² (center) shows the Spoken app, a commercial AAC tool to help users of speech-generating devices. Photo by Craig Taylor.

The AI That Tells a Joke With You

October 20, 2025 | Laurie Robinson

New research explores how AI can help speech-generating device users reclaim timely, humorous comments —without losing their own voic …