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UMSI Research Roundup. Toxicity on Social Media. Affirmative Action. Collective Memory. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

Toxicity on Social Media | Affirmative Action | Collective Memory: UMSI Research Roundup

02/24/2025

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications. 

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First Paper Friday. Yongjie Sha, PhD Student. Meeting People Where They Are: Building Community Centered Care with Smartphone Facilitated Response to Overdoses. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

First Paper Friday: Yongjie Sha

02/14/2025

Sha’s paper studies the impact of a community-driven effort to reverse overdoses through a smartphone app. 

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UMSI research roundup. UMSI researchers at the 2024 EMNLP & AMIA conferences. Recent publications by UMSI faculty and PhD students.

EMNLP and AMIA 2024: UMSI Research Roundup

11/08/2024

UMSI research and workshops for the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, as well as the 2024 AMIA Annual Symposium. 

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UMSI Research Roundup. Cannabis Use, TikTok Social Drama. Recent publications by UMSI faculty and PhD students.

Cannabis use | TikTok social drama: UMSI Research Roundup

08/28/2024

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications. 

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Megan Threats named Michigan State University Stephen O. Murray Scholar in Residence

08/27/2024

During the residency, Threats will be hosting a series of public workshops and events paying homage to the legacy of libraries who’ve engaged in intersectional activism. 

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Recent UMSI Awards and Honors.

UMSI awards & honors: October 2023

11/01/2023

UMSI researchers are recognized nationally and internationally for their outstanding work. Read about their recent accomplishments.

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Community college students touring the U-M campus make the Michigan “M” by posing as different parts of the letter in front of the Huetwell Visitors Center.

Summer outreach programs inspire students to make and break the mold

08/18/2023

We look back on a summer of fun with information — from molding thermoplastics to designing hygiene apps — as UMSI introduced local students to possibilities in the field.

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Institute of Museum and Library Services. Early Career Development Grant. Megan Threats. Assistant Professor.

Megan Threats earns prestigious Institute of Museum and Library Services Early Career Development Grant

07/28/2023

The award will go toward supporting Threats’ research on how public libraries can help formerly incarcerated people access health-related services.

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Faculty Q&A: Megan Threats on communities and health justice

07/12/2023

Threats’ research focuses on empowering minoritized communities and helping them better access healthcare services.

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Megan Threats designs course to introduce high school students to health informatics

06/26/2023

Threats says she’s “excited to introduce a new generation of students to the field of health informatics.”

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