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The University of Michigan School of Information creates and shares knowledge so that people will use information — with technology — to build a better world.

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. @umich home #AnnArbor ranked #1 for #millennials : educated workforce, #techjobs . Via @freep : http://t.co/vYUV1PHUx7 http://t.co/5zWamtZLwC
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UMSI assistant professor @oliverhaimson has won a prestigious @NSF CAREER grant for his research proposal, "Toward Equitable Social Media Content Moderation for Marginalized Individuals and Communities." Congratulations, Dr. Haimson! 🎉 Read more:
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Walking in a winter wonderland ❄️☃️❄️ @UMich
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47 years ago today three #Wolverines were sent to the moon on a very important mission and established the first @UMich alumni chapter on the moon! #Apollo15 #LeadersandBest
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Nazanin Andalibi has earned a prestigious @NSF CAREER award to fund research on emotion artificial intelligence, technology developed to infer people’s emotions and mood.  @naz_andalibi
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Nazanin Andalibi receives prestigious NSF CAREER award | umsi

The grant will fund research on the use of emotion artificial intelligence in the workplace and employment interviews.

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The beginnings of a massive illuminated art installation called “Literature vs. Traffic.” 📕📗📘 See the streets of #AnnArbor light up tonight on Liberty Street.
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Dr. @timnitGebru is a leading and widely-respected researcher in the domain of AI ethics and founder of #BlackInAI . Join @um_midas , @michigan_AI , @MichiganESC on Monday, Jan. 25 for a talk on Computer Vision: Who Is Helped & Who Is Harmed. More info:
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Looking good, @itsratherharsh and @ReallySwara ! Learn more about the Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa symposium happening at @umsi Thursday and Friday ➡️ .
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U-M hosts symposium on social media influencers' effect on society, politics and economy | umsi

U-M will host a Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa symposium April 7-8. Speakers will highlight the role of social media in societies around the world and...

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Met the wonderful @ReallySwara at @umsi today. Great talk!
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Did you know that @UMich has an alumni chapter on the moon? 👨‍🚀🚀🌝 #Apollo15
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The two-day Social Media and Society in India Symposium kicks off at @UMich at 9 a.m. in North Quad Space 2435 and online. RJ Sayema, radio jockey at Radio Mirchi, joins a rich variety of speakers 🎙️ @_sayema Program:
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🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Marathe! 🎉 UMSI's @marathe_megh successfully defended their dissertation this week! 🎓 #PhDdone #InformationChangesEverything
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Breaking: A gift from Activision Blizzard CEO @BobbyKotick will establish a new #esports program at @UMSI . Kotick's gift will fund a professor to lead the development of the program, preparing students for careers in the burgeoning esports industry.
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UMSI assistant professor @david__jurgens has earned an @NSF CAREER grant for his research on identifying/measuring how social media can have a positive impact on people’s lives. Uplifting news all around! 👏
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Let it snow ❄️🐿❄️ @UMich
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UMSI assistant professor @_rnbrewer has earned a prestigious @NSF CAREER award to fund her research supporting older adults in making informed decisions with voice technologies 👏
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Andrea Forte has been recommended as the new School of Information dean. Her appointment to a five-year renewable term starts Jan. 1, pending approval by the Board of Regents.
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Andrea Forte recommended as School of Information dean | umsi

Andrea Forte, a Drexel University professor of information whose scholarship focuses on understanding the wide-ranging features of online life, has been recommended to be the next dean of the School...

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Congratulations to UMSI's Dr. Chuck on his recent promotion to full Clinical Professor! Dr. Chuck is best known for his incredibly popular #MOOC "Python for Everybody." You can learn more about his and his work here 👉
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UMSI is thrilled to announce the promotion of six faculty members: @cerenbudak , @alain_cohn , @michinebeling , @from_soney and @floschaub have been promoted to associate professor with tenure, @lionelrobertjr to full professor. Congratulations, all!
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It's kind of a perfect @UMich day here in #AnnArbor . #GoBlue #FridayFeeling
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UMSI's Tawanna Dillahunt has been named an inaugural recipient of the Computing Research Association's Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) Skip Ellis Early Career Award. Congratulations, Dr. Dillahunt! Read more:
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Today is the day! Congratulations to UMSI Associate Professor @yunnia on the publication of her new book #PrototypeNation - the culmination of more than a decade of ethnographic research on China's shifting and contested place in the global tech industry.
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We’re so happy to welcome @MeganThreats to the UMSI faculty! Read about the @UMich Anti‑Racism Hiring Initiative that helped us get her here:
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Award-winning journalist @karaswisher just visited @UMich to talk media, misinformation and the need to regulate the tech industry. @GM CEO @mtbarra joined her, and Andrea Forte, dean of UMSI, gave closing remarks. Highlights: @UMWallaceHouse @FordSchool
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Award-winning journalist Kara Swisher visits U-M to talk misinformation, need for tech regulation |...

Swisher’s new memoir offers an insider’s perspective on the tech world. She was joined in conversation by General Motors CEO Mary Barra at an event co-sponsored by UMSI.

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Professor @clifflampe has accepted the position of associate dean for academic affairs at UMSI: Interim Dean Elizabeth Yakel announced the position today, pending approval by the provost and the @UMich Board of Regents.
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Congratulations to MSI grad Uche Eke, who just qualified to become Nigeria’s 1st Olympic gymnast! 👏👏👏 The UMSI community is rooting for you on the road to Tokyo! Read Uche's story about pursuing his Olympic dream alongside his MSI degree: #FacesofUMSI
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Faces of UMSI: Uche Eke | umsi

Uche Eke (MSI ’21) maintained a 4.0 GPA and earned a Margaret Mann Award at UMSI, all while training rigorously with Michigan Gymnastics to represent Nigeria in the 2020 Olympics. Learn how he became...

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Confirming that Omar Mohamed of Egypt and Uche Eke of Nigeria have qualified to Tokyo! Mohamed won the all-around title at the African Championships to secure his spot, while Eke took the bronze all-around medal. He will be the first Nigerian gymnast to compete at the Games.
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BSI junior Jaren Johnson is developing an app that pairs high school mentees from inner city communities with college students at nearly universities. Read more about Jaren, his transfer experience, and why he chose UMSI in this week’s #FacesofUMSI :
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Take your video conference calls from North Quad, or attend your online class from the Michigan Stadium––These virtual @umich backgrounds for @zoom_us will make you feel closer to #HoMe . ➡️
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📢Elizabeth Yakel will serve as the interim dean of the @UMich School of Information. Beth is a two-time alumna of the school, has been on faculty since 2000, and has served as senior associate dean for academic affairs since 2015. Read more➡️
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#RiseandShine ! Monday isn't so bad when you start your day with a @UMich view like this! #GoBlue #AnnArbor http://t.co/jQe4HHFTwP
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Did you miss the talk with groundbreaking researcher Dr. @timnitGebru , or just want to experience it again? The video is now available on the @MichiganESC site:
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Videos

We offer live streaming of many events, some with Q&A taken from the Internet in real time. See the event pages for details. This page lists recordings of prior events that we would like to hig…

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Dr. @timnitGebru is a leading and widely-respected researcher in the domain of AI ethics and founder of #BlackInAI . Join @um_midas , @michigan_AI , @MichiganESC on Monday, Jan. 25 for a talk on Computer Vision: Who Is Helped & Who Is Harmed. More info:
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Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips, aka "The Liver Doc," joins a rich program of speakers including actors, activists, educators, lawyers, journalists, physicians and entertainers to discuss how social media impacts life in India. @theliverdr Program:
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Congratulations, Dr. Yixin Zou! 🎉 UMSI’s @yixinzouu successfully defended her dissertation yesterday 👏 Starting Jan. 2023, Dr. Zou will be joining the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum, Germany as a tenure-track faculty member. #PhDone
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Hey, look who we found on the Diag! 🌲🐿 #MoveInHoMe
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Before Google and digital databases, the only way to search at @UMichLibrary was the card catalog, 1981 #TBT #UMich
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Congratulations to UMSI senior Joshua Mollison ( @JMolli16 ), who has earned a @UMich 2022 MLK Spirit Award 👏 Joshua serves on the EBoard for Black @SI and is a student rep for UMSI’s DEI Committee advocating for Black students’ needs and elevating students’ voices.
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To help determine if emotion recognition technologies can prioritize the privacy and preference of the humans they impact, UMSI’s @naz_andalibi has been awarded an @NSF grant to aid her research. Congratulations, Dr. Andalibi!
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New assistant professor @dallascard joined UMSI this January! His research focuses on making machine learning more reliable and responsible, and how to gather societal insights from historical text records.
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Three UMSI students shed light on the staggering number of sexual assault and harassment incidences in academia through this visualization project.
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Jane Im has earned a 2023 Meta Research PhD Fellowship! Im will use the fellowship to advance her research into best practices for designing and developing privacy settings based on the needs of both tech companies and their users. @im__jane
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Jane Im earns 2023 Meta Research PhD Fellowship | umsi

PhD candidate Jane Im hopes to use the fellowship to advance research into how social media companies can better implement usable privacy controls.

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Congratulations to UMSI's Jean Hardy ( @jean__hardy ) for the successful defense of his dissertation: "Rural Transformation in the 21st Century: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and High-Tech Economies in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula." 🎉 🎓
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Satirist Akash Banerjee @TheDeshBhakt will present "Beyond Entertainment - Role of YouTube Influencers in India" at @UMich ’s upcoming conference on #SocialMedia ▶️ Join Session 6: Comedy and Power, 11 a.m. - 12:50 p.m., April 8 in NQ Space 2435. Register:
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A new study by UMSI doctoral candidate Jane Im shows that social media users want more control over the types of ads they’re exposed to. In @WSJ , Im explains why platforms asking users for their ad preferences is a "win-win." @im__jane
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Im: Social media users want more control over ads | umsi

UMSI doctoral candidate Jane Im talks to the Wall Street Journal about her study looking at ways social media platforms can make it easier for consumers to control the ads they see online.

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Join us on May 30 at 3 pm for the oral defense of Harmanpreet Kaur, “Where are the Humans in Human-AI Interaction: The Missing Human-Centered Perspective on Interpretability Tools for Machine Learning.” All are welcome! 3100 NQ/Zoom @harmankkaur
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Dissertation defense: Harmanpreet Kaur | umsi

UMSI is pleased to announce the oral defense of Harmanpreet Kaur, "Where are the Humans in Human-AI Interaction: The Missing Human-Centered Perspective on Interpretability Tools for Machine Learnin...

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🍁 Fall color is peaking throughout the U-M campus and Ann Arbor! Relax and take in the views 🌞
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Dr. Chuck Severance, a clinical professor at the University of Michigan School of Information who teaches a 10-week Python course on Coursera, calls Python the "Netflix of programming." 👏 @drchuck
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Welcome to @avery_everhart , who joined UMSI this month as a postdoctoral researcher with @oliverhaimson ’s group. Dr. Everhart earned her PhD @USC and specializes in intersections of social, spatial and health sciences in her applied transgender studies work.
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Congratulations, Dr. Kameswaran! 🎉 UMSI’s Vaishnav Kameswaran successfully defended his dissertation, "Help facilitates Accessibility": Understanding the Social and Technology-mediated Experiences of People with Visual Impairments in India. #PhDone #InformationChangesEverything
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Congratulations to UMSI associate professor Tawanna Dillahunt ( @Tawanna1 )! She has been named a 2021 ACM Distinguished Member ( @TheOfficialACM ) for her outstanding contributions to the field, including publications, products and patents.
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Interpretability tools have been designed to help #DataScientists and #MachineLearning practitioners better understand how ML models work. A landmark new study from UMSI's @harmankkaur shows it might not be working. @techreview 's @strwbilly explains:
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🚨Big deal alert🚨 UMSI Associate Professor Libby Hemphill takes on the associate director role at the Center For Social Media Responsibility. (1/3)
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As a 2023 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Rising Star, UMSI’s Jane Im completed an intensive academic career workshop for grad students and postdocs w/ marginalized or underrepresented genders. Her top takeaways and advice for peers: @im__jane
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Jane Im selected as 2023 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Rising Star | umsi

UMSI doctoral candidate returned from the academic career workshop with advice on navigating the job market. 

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The new @umsi staff photographer is a little nuts, but boy does he do some great work. @UMsquirrel @ArborSquirrel
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Congratulations to UMSI's Cliff Lampe who has been elected Executive Vice President of ACM SIGCHI. “It’s an honor to serve that community and to help promote HCI more broadly."
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UMSI associate professor Tawanna Dillahunt was named a 2021 ACM Distinguished Member for outstanding engineering contributions to computing. Learn about her background, innovations, and ideas for attracting more students from historically excluded groups to computer science:
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"How many of us have interacted with...people with no connection to academia who use our innovations on a day-to-day basis?" asks @Tawanna1 of @umsi , who focuses on technologies to help people experiencing marginalization. Read the latest POA here:
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We're pleased to announce that UMSI is planning to offer an online master's degree in Applied Data Science through @coursera ! We're joined by @umichsph @UMengineering & @UM_CEE who will also be offering online master's degrees:
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What happens when a local bookstore unexpectedly jumps from eight online orders per week to 800? When @LiteratiBkstore needed to reinvent their online presence because of the pandemic, they turned to #UMSI  students. @micgustafson @jrampton
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#TBT : Hey, that's our block! Check out Liberty and State circa 1948. Everything about this photo is cool. #AnnArbor
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Bloomberg @technology journalist and @Apple insider @markgurman (BSI ’16) reports that Apple is working on a subscription service for iPhones and other hardware, allowing more people to afford their pricey products: #UMSIFunSize (1/2)
Apple Is Working on a Hardware Subscription Service for IPhones

Apple Inc. is working on a subscription service for the iPhone and other hardware products, a move that could make device ownership similar to paying a monthly app fee, according to people with...

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Former first lady @MichelleObama is taking her "Becoming" book tour to college campuses next week for an online conversation. UMSI senior Joshua Mollison will be representing @UMich . 🙌 U-M students/staff/faculty can attend but must RSVP by Friday. ➡️
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UMSI is pleased to announce the oral defense of Yixin Zou ( @yixinzouu ), “Understanding and Improving Consumers’ Adoption of Online Privacy-Protective Behaviors.” All are welcome to attend via Zoom, Tuesday, Aug. 30!
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Announcing activist, #SocialEntrepreneurship leader @Ghonim as our 2016 graduation speaker:
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Congratulations to UMSI's Cliff Lampe on his recent promotion to full professor with tenure! Cliff is best known for his social computing research. You can learn more about him and his work here 👉
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Please celebrate with us the successful dissertation defense of Dr. Abraham Mhaidli 🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Mhaidli! @AbrahamMhaidli #PhDone
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UMSI PhD candidate @im__jane has earned a prestigious Barbour Scholarship through @umichgradschool 👏 Im’s research focuses on how consent can be better incorporated into social media platforms. (1/3)
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Today is Squirrel Appreciation Day! 💛🐿️ Read all about the history of the #UMich squirrel — revered, studied, protected, feared, politicized and more over generations on campus — in this #UMHeritage chronicle: #SquirrelAppreciationDay
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Children's book lovers rejoice: @UFLIBDigital has an online repository of over 6,000 facsimiles of historical #ChildrensLit from the 1800s & 1900s. @openculture has unlocked this treasure trove, free to read online 📖➡️ #FunSize
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Please celebrate with us the successful dissertation defense of Dr. Daniel Delmonaco 🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Delmonaco! @delmonster_mash #PhDone
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Classes at @UMich end in less than a month...woah! #MondayMorning
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Welcome to #AnnArbor UMSI Community! #mgoblue #leadersandbest #annarbor
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It's official! The #UMichRegents approved UMSI's new Master of Applied Data Science online degree program in today's meeting! Learn more about the new online degree and sign up for our interest list:
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Congratulations to UMSI assistant professor Steve Oney! His "Designing and Building Collaborative Tools for Mixed-Ability Programming Teams" proposal will be funded through this award. @from_soney
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We’re happy to announce the recipients of the 2020 Award for Inclusion Research, a global program that supports academic research in computing and technology that addresses the needs of underrepresented populations.
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UMSI is pleased to announce the oral defense of Daniel Delmonaco, “Moderating Sex Ed: How Social Media Content Moderation Impacts Access to Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Information.” All welcome! May 19, 1 pm | 3100 NQ/Zoom @delmonster_mash
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Dissertation defense: Daniel Delmonaco | umsi

UMSI is pleased to announce the oral defense of Daniel Delmonaco, "Moderating Sex Ed: How Social Media Content Moderation Impacts Access to Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Information."...

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Please celebrate with us the successful dissertation defense of Dr. Mauli Pandey 🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Pandey! @pandeymauli #PhDone
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Clinical assistant professor Jesse Johnston turned his love of music into a career in information. @jesseajohnston 's research focuses on sound and music archives and digital preservation. He's done work at @smithsonianfolk , @librarycongress and now UMSI:
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Jesse Johnston on the importance of preserving history and archiving music | umsi

Jesse Johnston joined the University of Michigan School of Information in 2022 as a clinical assistant professor. We talk to Jesse about his career in music archiving, his love of teaching and his...

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Starting to feel a little like Fall here @UMich ! Leaves are already changing and it's sweater weather in #AnnArbor ! http://t.co/22MkJ10gOh
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UMSI researchers have been awarded a $1.4M @NSF grant to help reduce digital exclusion with their project, “The ‘Community Tech Workers’: A Community-Driven Model to Support Economic Mobility and Bridge the Digital Divide in the U.S.”:
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It's a lay-out-on-the-Diag kinda day here at @UMich . Summer is early in #AnnArbor . 😎☀️🌻 #umich #GoBlue #summervibes
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Miss the #SuperBloodMoon last night? We've got you covered. Happy Monday! http://t.co/6bUNB2FySu
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Professor @lionelrobertjr has been appointed associate dean for faculty development and faculty affairs for UMSI: Interim Dean Elizabeth Yakel announced the position today, pending approval by the provost and the @UMich Board of Regents.
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Did you know U-M has a video game archive with more than 7,000 games dating back to the 1970s 🎮🕹 The archive was started by UMSI alum and @UMichLibrary reference services coordinator David Carter (MILS '95) who shares his rationale for maintaining this collection 〽️
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With a BA from @MichiganRoss , MSI student Thais Gonzalez was headed to a Bay Area job when COVID-19 changed her vision of the future. Then, she found a dream to realize at UMSI — and time to wrap an exciting career with @umichsoftball ⚾ #FacesofUMSI
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UMSI is welcoming nine new faculty and 30 lecturers for the 2022-23 school year. Within this cohort, 23 faculty members are graduates of UMSI degree programs 🙌 Learn about their backgrounds, research areas and the classes they’re teaching here:
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. @umsi professor @drchuck is celebrating 5 years of #P4YE 💻 ✅ #1 python course in the world 🌎 ✅Nearly 800,000 enrolled ✅Students on six contents ✅75+ "office hours" meet-ups around the glove Check out a recent celebration 👇
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Did you miss the recent talk with groundbreaking researcher Dr. @timnitGebru , or just want to experience it again? The video is available on the @MichiganESC site:
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We offer live streaming of many events, some with Q&A taken from the Internet in real time. See the event pages for details. This page lists recordings of prior events that we would like to hig…

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Two Google engineers have resigned from the tech giant, citing the departure late last year of prominent Black artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru
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Welcome to @karen_leslie , who joins @UMSI this week as a postdoctoral researcher with @naz_andalibi 's group. Karen earned her PhD at @iSchoolUMD and specializes in values and ethics in emotion recognition AI. Happy to have you here! 👏 〽️
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Congratulations to the UMSI class of 2020 academic award winners! 🏆 Margaret Mann Award: Justin Buss Edmon Low Award: Angela Chih John L. King Award: Abpreet Kaur Nikki Candelore Roda Award: Bryan Meek & Salma Siddiqui #MGoGrad #UMSICelebration 🎓
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Please celebrate with us the successful dissertation defense of Dr. Minje Choi 🎊 Congratulations, Dr. Choi! @minje__choi #PhDone
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All are welcome to attend UMSI PhD student Megh Marathe's ( @marathe_megh ) virtual oral defense! Tomorrow, Megh will present "Seizure in the Time of Digital Brainwaves." Registration is required to attend. 🗓️ Thurs, May 27 ⏰ 10-11:30am ET 🔗 Details:
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Assistant professor Abigail Jacobs, @az_jacobs , is giving a tutorial on The Meaning and Measurement of Bias during the plenary session at the ACM Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency Conference in Barcelona on January 27.
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measurement — Abigail Z. Jacobs

  The Meaning and Measurement of Bias Lessons from Natural Language Processing Translation Tutorial  ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and...

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Carol Moser walked into her bedroom closet a PhD candidate ... and walked out two hours later with a doctorate in information! Read more about UMSI’s first virtual dissertation defense here: 🎓💻
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Oliver Haimson has earned a 2024 Henry Russel award from the @UMich Board of Regents, considered the highest honor for early to mid-career faculty: @oliverhaimson
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Oliver Haimson earns 2024 Henry Russel award from the Regents of the University of Michigan | umsi

The award recognizes faculty members who have “demonstrated an extraordinary record of accomplishment in scholarly research and/or creativity, as well as an excellent record of contributions as a...

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Congratulations to #CSCW2019 Best Paper winners @umsi assistant prof. @eegilbert and @GeorgiaTech 's @shagunjhaver & @asbruckman UMSI researchers will present over 30 papers at the @ACM_CSCW conference Nov, 9-13 ➡️
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“My time at UMSI was a way to shape how I view the world, how I assess information, and that's applicable to any field, anything.” Pro soccer player Abdou Samake (BSI '19) on how his degree helps him see what's really going on in everyday life 👁️ 💭 ➡️
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UMSI PhD candidate Jean Hardy gives a summary of his theory of rural “disaster gentrification” from his farm in Peshtigo, WI. Check out the full @Buzzfeed article featuring Jean’s interview:
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Please celebrate with us the successful dissertation defense of Dr. April Yi Wang 🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Wang! @AprilWang95 #PhDone
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Congratulations to @from_soney , @an_dre_a_ ,  @kentarotoyama , @libbyh and @mustafanaseem , recipients of this year's UMSI faculty awards. Read more about these outstanding professors and researchers:
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Congratulations to UMSI PhD student Daniel Delmonaco ( @delmonster_mash ) and fellow recipients of this year’s Rackham Program in Public Scholarship grants! 👏👏👏 Learn about Daniel's mutually beneficial project, “Collaborative Design of Sex Education Zines," at the link below.
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We're pleased to announce this year's recipients of the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship Public Scholarship grants! These mutually beneficial projects are co-created between Rackham students and community partners to support the public good.
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"We must acknowledge that the historical and structural systems of racism have benefited some at the cost to others–and this is a truth that we choose not to ignore.” UMSI leadership is taking immediate action to stand up against violence and racism:
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“It’s so rewarding to help students find their professional careers.” Prof @paullconway reflects on a distinguished career as an educator, researcher and archivist. He quietly announced his retirement from UMSI last month.
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