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Provost's Disability Scholarship Initiative Grant. Hira Jamshed. PhD Student.

Hira Jamshed earns Provost’s Disability Scholarship Initiative Grant

02/07/2025

The grant is intended to support the pursuit of new scholarship aimed at better understanding and addressing the concerns of faculty and staff at the U-M Ann Arbor campus who have a disability.

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Featured by World Privacy Forum. Assistant Professor Nazanin Andalibi. Emotion recognition and what Nazanin Andalibi's research tells us about its impact.

Andalibi: Emotion recognition can pose harms to users, workers

02/06/2025

UMSI assistant professor Nazanin Andalibi talks about the risks of emotion AI on user privacy and the ethical considerations of this technology. 

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Featured by The Great Voice. Associate Professor David Jurgens. Is DeepSeek dethroning ChatGPT? University of Michigan professor weighs in.

Jurgens: DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough disrupts industry

02/06/2025

UMSI associate professor David Jurgens on the rise of DeepSeek and what it means for OpenAI and the U.S-China tech race. 

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Side-by-side headshots of Mark Gurman, Yunyao Li and John Thompson

Global leaders in tech and AI join UMSI Advisory Board

02/05/2025

Mark Gurman, Yunyao Li and John Thompson bring expertise in tech journalism and AI — along with personal ties to UMSI’s mission. 

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Faces of UMSI: Karl Haviland, Master of Applied Data Science

Karl Haviland tackles AI and business with the MADS program

01/31/2025

Karl Haviland is taking MADS courses while running an AI-driven software company. 

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A student chats with a recruiter wearing a green shirt and holding a folder with the Duo logo

How to make the most of the UMSI Career Fair

01/30/2025

On Feb. 6, UMSI students will connect face-to-face with recruiters from Rocket Companies, Epic, Blue Health Intelligence, Menlo Innovations and more. Here is a roundup of resources to help you prepare — and stay calm once you’re there.

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UMSI News in bold white and yellow lettering with a group of students walking towards a building in the backdrop.

Study: Paywalls influence newspaper coverage

01/29/2025

Work by UMSI researchers Paramveer Dhillon, Anmol Panda and Libby Hemphill shows paywalls "may fundamentally alter what news gets covered." 

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Sena Kojah. PhD Student. Dialing it Back: Shadowbanning, Invisible Digital Labor, and how Marginalized Content Creators Attempt to Mitigate the Impacts of Opaque Platform Governance. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

First Paper Friday: Sena Kojah

01/24/2025

Kojah’s paper explores the disproportionate impact of shadowbanning on social media platforms on content creators with marginalized identities. 

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Featured on Fox17. Assistant professor Oliver Haimson. Professor weighs in on Trump's proposed 'two genders' policy.

Haimson: Trump’s “two genders” policy could have “bad implications” for transgender women

01/22/2025

UMSI assistant professor Oliver Haimson discusses the impact Trump’s executive order will have on LGBTQIA people. 

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The Association for Computing Machinery. 2024 ACM Fellow. Cliff Lampe, professor of information.

Cliff Lampe named ACM fellow

01/22/2025

Lampe is recognized for his contributions on social network systems, and outstanding leadership in the ACM SIGCHI community. 

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