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Lauren Schirle, MIM '19

Alumni Profile: From Archives to Analytics: How a MIM Alum’s Unconventional Path Shapes Fintech Innovation

September 5, 2025 | Laurie Robinson

A profile of MIM alum Lauren Schirle

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Baltimore Community Foundation: Leveraging Student Talent to Tackle Nonprofit Challenges: BCF’s Collaboration with UMD’s iConsultancy

August 27, 2025 | Baltimore Community Foundation

UMD iConsultancy students help BCF strengthen website management, enhance workflows, and reduce costs

Illustration divided into four panels: top left shows hands using a smartphone touchscreen; top right shows a person at a self-service kiosk; bottom left shows a white car with a wireless signal above it; bottom right shows hands typing on a keyboard and using a computer mouse.

From leveraging AI for pedestrian safety to creating better touchscreen kiosks, the Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility brings together scientists across campus to transform existing and emerging tech for people with disabilities. (Illustration by iStock) Photo via Maryland Today.

Maryland Today: Making Tech Accessible—With Benefits for All

August 20, 2025 | Maryland Today Staff | UMD | Karen Shih ’09

INFO faculty lead groundbreaking research to make kiosks, PDFs, AI, and everyday technologies accessible for all

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Turning Hand-Planted Seeds into Data-Driven Harvests

August 13, 2025 | Laurie Robinson

An iConsultancy partnership with Roots Africa helps the organization maximize their data

Led by the University of Maryland, TRAILS was launched in May 2023 with a $20 million award from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The institute is focused on developing, building and modeling participatory research that—over time—will increase trust in AI. Illustration courtesy of TRAILS. Image via Maryland Today.

Maryland Today: $750K in Seed Grants Awarded by UMD-Led Coalition on Trustworthy AI

July 23, 2025 | Tom Ventsias | Maryland Today | UMD

Six INFO faculty are among researchers awarded $750K+ in TRAILS funding to advance trustworthy, human-centered AI innovation

Reimagining Information Access: How INFO Is Centering Immigrant Voices in Tech, Policy & Archives

May 27, 2025 | Laurie Robinson

The Immigration and International Information Research Alliance (i3r) flips traditional scholarship on its head, treating immigrants as …

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(Video) SoDa Symposium: “Prompt Engineering to Support AI Enabled Research”

April 16, 2025 | INFO Staff

Featuring Claire Kelley, senior data scientist and co-director for data science at Child Trends, and Trent D. Buskirk, professor at the …

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Business Insider: Here’s What Potential 23andMe Buyers Could Do with Your Genetic Data (ft. Jessica Vitak)

April 15, 2025 | INFO Staff

INFO’s Jessica Vitak warns of privacy risks as 23andMe’s DNA database faces uncertainty after bankruptcy filing

Instead of regulators playing catch-up, AI developers could help create safer systems if market-based incentives were put in place, UMD researchers say. Illustration by iStock.

Maryland Today: UMD Research Sends AI Safety to Market (ft. Abdirisak Mohamed)

March 27, 2025 | Maryland Today Staff | UMD

INFO’s Abdirisak Mohamed joins UMD researchers in designing a market-driven approach to AI safety