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(Video) MacLeod Lecture: Advocating for Books, Children and Imagination in a Time of Division: a Conversation with Meg Medina

March 15, 2024 | Logan Delavan-Hoover

Newberry winner speaks on children’s literature

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(Video) SoDa Seed Grant Series: Socio-Algorithmic Foundations of Trustworthy News Recommendations

March 12, 2024 | Logan Delavan-Hoover

Privacy experts speak on national data efforts

OTTRS Speaker Series: The X-Culture Global Research Platform

(Video) OTTRS Speaker Series: The X-Culture Global Research Platform

March 8, 2024 | Logan Delavan-Hoover

International business professor shares insights about a crowdsourcing platform for business challenges, talent recruitment, and cultur …

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The UMD Do Good Institute

14 Incredible Teams Selected as 2024 Do Good Challenge Semi-Finalists

March 7, 2024 | UMD Staff

INFO students Wadi Ahmed and Ruka Ayele are among the semi-finalists!

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Scientific American: Everything to Know About OpenAI’s New Text-to-Video Generator, Sora (ft. Irene Pasquetto)

March 7, 2024 | INFO Staff

A new AI software that generates realistic videos is raising concerns around misinformation applications

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Inaugural digital literacy training for trainers at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore

Partnering with Enoch Pratt—and Beyond

March 7, 2024 | Julie Slivka | UMD Extension

UMD Extension and the INFO College partner to bring digital literacy to all Marylanders

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How Emerging Technologies are Crafting New Worlds and Revolutionizing Learning

March 6, 2024 | Laurie Robinson

Research with KidsTeam and local neighborhoods examines how youth use emerging technologies like AI and VR

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(Video) SODA Symposium: Birds of a Feather – Dealing with Missing Data

March 5, 2024 | Logan Delavan-Hoover

Strategies for working around missing data in education

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GEOG and INFO College Celebrate Sergii Skakun’s Promotion to Associate Professor

March 1, 2024 | UMD GEOG Staff

The Department of Geographical Sciences and the College of Information Studies (INFO College) gathered last week to celebrate the promo …