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Barbara Ericson, Assistant Professor. Mark Guzdial, Professor. 2025 Visiting Erskine Fellows.

Barbara Ericson and Mark Guzdial named Visiting Erskine Fellows at the University of Canterbury

01/15/2025

The fellowship brings distinguished international academics to lecture at the New Zealand university. Ericson and Guzdial are looking forward to working with students and sharing innovations and teaching practices developed at U-M.

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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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Ashley Zhang and Steve Oney earn Best Paper award at the 2024 Learning @ Scale Conference

08/06/2024

Zhang and Oney’s paper proposes a new system for instructors teaching introductory programming courses. 

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Featured by Bridge Michigan. Professor Mark Guzdial. Assistant professor Barbara Ericson. Michigan needs quality teachers for universal high school computer science.

Guzdial and Ericson: Michigan needs quality teachers for universal high school computer science

07/19/2024

In a new opinion piece, Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson argue for “educators who are proficient and ready to inspire the next generation of computer scientists.” 

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UMSI Research Roundup. Service Robots in Restaurants, Social Media and Job Market Success. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

Service Robots in Restaurants | Social Media and Job Market Success: UMSI Research Roundup

07/03/2024

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications. 

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Newly promoted UMSI faculty. Barbara Ericson. Patricia Garcia. Eric Gilbert. Erin Krupka. Sile O'Modhrain. Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck.

UMSI faculty promotions receive Board of Regents approval

05/17/2024

Six University of Michigan School of Information faculty promotions were approved at the May 16, 2024 meeting of the University of Michigan Board of Regents. 

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UMSI @ CHI 2024. Surfing the World. 11-16 May 2024. Honolulu, Hawaii.

UMSI at CHI 2024: Research, workshops, courses

05/08/2024

UMSI research and workshops for the 2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

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UMSI researchers to present at SIGCSE 2024

03/20/2024

UMSI researchers will be presenting on a wide range of topics related to computer science education. 

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First Paper Friday. Aadarsh Padiyath. PhD student. “A Realist Review of Undergraduate Student Attitudes towards Ethical Interventions in Technical Computing Courses. ACM Transcations on Computing Education.

First-Paper Friday: Aadarsh Padiyath

01/26/2024

UMSI PhD student Aadarsh Padiyath’s first paper explores the need for integrating ethics education into undergraduate computing curricula.

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Quoted by WUNC North Carolina Public Radio. Assistant professor Barbara Ericson. NC students must study computer science to graduate under new law.

Ericson: A new law in North Carolina is going to be difficult to implement for educators

12/07/2023

School systems in North Carolina are rushing to get teachers trained and ready to teach computer science courses before a new law goes into effect. 

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