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UMSI News, Awards & Honors: June 2024

06/04/2024

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

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Recent publications by UMSI faculty and PhD students. ACM FAccT Conference and ICWSM 2024. Recent publications by UMSI faculty and PhD students.

FAcct 2024 and ICWSM: UMSI Research Roundup

06/03/2024

UMSI research and workshops for the 2024 FAcct conference, as well as the AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.

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Rackham Graduate School. 2024 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. UMSI honorees. Ben Zhang, PhD candidate. Rahaf Alharbi, PhD canddiate. Shwetha Rajaram, PhD Candidate.

Three UMSI doctoral candidates earn Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships

05/09/2024

The fellowship is highly competitive and provides tuition waivers and funding for one year.

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UMSI research roundup. Tour guide robots, lonely data science. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

Tour-guide robots | Lonely data science: UMSI Research Roundup

02/29/2024

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

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Assistant professor Michaelanne Thomas smiles as she poses next to a pink dollhouse-sized fairy door she installed on the wall of her home.

Michaelanne Thomas loves the small things in life

02/23/2024

Thomas, assistant professor of information in the School of Information, has a lifelong obsession with tiny things, and it’s manifested in a wondrous practice that she shares with her two young sons.

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Michaelanne Thomas on social justice, online communities and what it means to cultivate a ‘sense of wonder’

04/20/2023

“I'm interested in questions of power, social inequalities and structural violence, and the ways people from underrepresented groups work together to make up for infrastructure gaps."

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UMSI research roundup. 2023 conference on human factors in computing services (CHI). Check out faculty and PhD student publications.

UMSI at CHI 2023: Research, workshops, courses

04/06/2023

Recent UMSI researchers and PhD student publications and workshops for the 2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

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Faces of UMSI: Ben Zhang

10/13/2022

PhD student Ben Zhang talks about his journey to UMSI, where he’s finding success studying the intersection of identity, mobility, infrastructure, labor and the online platforms woven into people’s lives.

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"Welcome, new faculty" headshots of Matthew Bui, Allen Flynn, Jesse Johnston, Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin, Michaelanne Thomas, Megan Threats, Justine Zhang, Alex McLeod, Gregory Myers, Scott TenBrink..

UMSI welcomes new 2022-23 faculty

08/24/2022

UMSI welcomes 10 new faculty and 30 lecturers for the 2022-23 school year.

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Assistant professor Michaelanne Thomas earns a Crosby Research Award

06/21/2022

Assistant professor and former Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Michaelanne Thomas was awarded a Crosby Grant to support new research working with the Latinx community in Flint. Thomas hopes to better understand how the community uses technology to help solve problems.

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