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: myumi.ch/wlRvn
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
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_andalibisi.umich.edu/about-umsi/news…
The beginnings of a massive illuminated art installation called “Literature vs. Traffic.” 📕📗📘
See the streets of #AnnArbor light up tonight on Liberty Street.
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 ➡️ myumi.ch/296AZ.
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: joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu…
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! 👏 myumi.ch/z1G5w
ALT "National Science Foundation CAREER Award. David Jurgens. Assistant Professor. UMSI."
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. myumi.ch/erY8x
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 👏 myumi.ch/y9VzW
ALT Robin Brewer smiling. “National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Robin Brewer. Assistant Professor.” UMSI logo.
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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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
👉myumi.ch/LBKMZ
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! myumi.ch/rqpgZ
ALT "Newly promoted UMSI faculty. Ceren Budak. Alain D. Cohn. Michael Nebeling. Stephen W. Oney. Lionel P. Robert. Florian Schaub."
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: myumi.ch/0WBvk
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. press.princeton.edu/books/pa…
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: record.umich.edu/articles/fi…
ALT Megan Threats smiling outdoors on University of Michigan campus.
Professor @clifflampe has accepted the position of associate dean for academic affairs at UMSI: myumi.ch/DJNxx
Interim Dean Elizabeth Yakel announced the position today, pending approval by the provost and the @UMich Board of Regents.
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: myumi.ch/E3dZp#FacesofUMSI
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.
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 : myumi.ch/J9G7l
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. ➡️myumi.ch/R5QX3
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: esc.umich.edu/videos/
Congratulations, Dr. Mendelsohn! 🎉
UMSI’s Julia Mendelsohn successfully defended her dissertation, “Theory-grounded computational analysis of political framing in online media.” She will soon join @UofMaryland as an assistant professor! 👏
@jmendelsohn2
ALT “Congratulations Dr. Julia Mendelsohn on the successful defense of your dissertation: Theory-grounded computational analysis of political framing in online media. Ceren Budak, serving as committee chair, presided over the oral defense. UMSI.” Portrait of Julia Mendelsohn.
📢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➡️myumi.ch/84A2R
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. @theliverdoc
Program: joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu…
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
ALT “Congratulations Dr. Yixin Zou on the successful defense of your dissertation: Understanding and Improving Consumers’ Adoption of Online Privacy-Protective Behaviors. Florian Schaub, serving as committee chair, presided over the oral defense.”
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.
ALT Headshot of Joshua Mollison and monochrome photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "17th Annual Central Campus Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Awards. Co-sponsored by UMSI. Joshua Mollison, BSI '22, UMSI. 2022 Awardee."
Jane Im is using the framework of consent to build social computing systems that give tech users control. myumi.ch/mZq2D
Why UMSI for her PhD in Information? “I wanted to choose what kind of projects I worked on, and I wanted to create something."
@im__jane
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__janesi.umich.edu/about-umsi/news…
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!
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." 🎉 🎓
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. myumi.ch/rqqJM
ALT Photo of Dallas Card from the shoulders up, smiling while standing in front of a wall featuring a simple tiled pattern of carved rectangles.
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." myumi.ch/5JpyM@im__jane
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: myumi.ch/7eXVy
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 myumi.ch/4r5GA@harmankkaur
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.
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." myumi.ch/r8N44
👏 @drchuck
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. myumi.ch/n887V
ALT Headshot of Tawanna Dillahunt. “2021 ACM Distinguished Member. Tawanna Dillahunt. Associate Professor.” UMSI logo.
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:
"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: bit.ly/3srledz
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
ALT Congratulations Dr. Vaishnav Kameswaran on the successful defense of your dissertation. Sile O'Modhrain and Tiffany Veinot, serving as committee co-chairs, presided over the oral defense.
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." myumi.ch/JgnG8
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: myumi.ch/MrApQ@im__jane
🚨Big deal alert🚨
UMSI Associate Professor Libby Hemphill takes on the associate director role at the Center For Social Media Responsibility. myumi.ch/mnMVz (1/3)
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: myumi.ch/J7R8X
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. ➡️myumi.ch/GWmj1
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! myumi.ch/d9PNq
ALT “The oral defense of Yixin Zou. Understanding and Improving Consumers’ Adoption of Online Privacy-Protective Behaviors. Tuesday, August 30, 2022. 4-6 pm EDT. Online via Zoom. Florian Schaub, serving as committee chair, will preside over the oral defense. All are welcome to [virtually] attend!”
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. myumi.ch/P16Db
@micgustafson @jrampton
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: myumi.ch/P1p91#UMSIFunSize (1/2)
UMSI’s Robin Brewer has earned a 2024 Henry Russel award, the University of Michigan’s highest honor for faculty members at their early- to mid-career stages. Learn about Brewer's extraordinary contributions and accomplishments: myumi.ch/4j4km@_rnbrewer@UMich
UMSI PhD candidate @im__jane has earned a prestigious Barbour Scholarship through @umichgradschool 👏 myumi.ch/pZrmr
Im’s research focuses on how consent can be better incorporated into social media platforms. (1/3)
ALT "Rackham Graduate School Barbour Scholar. Jane Im. PhD Candidate."
Please celebrate with us the successful dissertation defense of Dr. Abraham Mhaidli 🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Mhaidli! @AbrahamMhaidli#PhDone
ALT “Congratulations Dr. Abraham Mhaidli on the successful defense of your dissertation: Anticipating the Manipulative Risks of Advertising in Virtual Reality. Florian Schaub, serving as committee chair, presided over the oral defense.”
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 👉 myumi.ch/L1VNZ
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: myumi.ch/3k5V3#SquirrelAppreciationDay
ALT A squirrel whose fur is dusted in a little bit of powdery snow perches on a curb on the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus.
Please celebrate with us the successful dissertation defense of Dr. Daniel Delmonaco 🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Delmonaco! @delmonster_mash #PhDone
ALT “Congratulations Dr. Daniel Delmonaco on the successful defense of your dissertation: Moderating Sex Ed: How Social Media Content Moderation Impacts Access to Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Information. Oliver Haimson, serving as committee chair, presided over the oral defense.”
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 📖➡️ myumi.ch/WwOe9#FunSize
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: myumi.ch/Lr978
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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Please celebrate with us the successful dissertation defense of Dr. Mauli Pandey 🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Pandey! @pandeymauli#PhDone
ALT “Congratulations Dr. Mauli Pandey on the successful defense of your dissertation: Accessibility of Collaborative Programming for Blind and Visually Impaired Developers. Steve Oney, serving as committee chair, presided over the oral defense.”
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
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. goo.gle/2HoQl5I
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.”: myumi.ch/bRdnr
ALT "National Science Foundation Award. The 'Community Tech Workers': A Community-Driven Model to Support Economic Mobility and Bridge the Digital Divide in the U.S." Headshots of Tawanna Dillahunt, Julie Hui, Kentaro Toyama and Mustafa Naseem. UMSI logo.
Professor @lionelrobertjr has been appointed associate dean for faculty development and faculty affairs for UMSI: myumi.ch/J8J8V
Interim Dean Elizabeth Yakel announced the position today, pending approval by the provost and the @UMich Board of Regents.
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: esc.umich.edu/videos/
Two Google engineers have resigned from the tech giant, citing the departure late last year of prominent Black artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru cnn.it/2NYIxKW
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! 👏 〽️
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 ⚾ myumi.ch/Xe4mb#FacesofUMSI
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 〽️
.@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 👇
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: myumi.ch/rq4wR
ALT "Welcome, new faculty.” Headshots of Matthew Bui, Allen Flynn, Jesse Johnston, Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin, Michaelanne Thomas, Megan Threats, Justine Zhang, Alex McLeod and Gregory Myers.
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
umsi.info/celebration#MGoGrad#UMSICelebration 🎓
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: myumi.ch/wl0xn 🎓💻
Please celebrate with us the successful dissertation defense of Dr. Minje Choi 🎊 Congratulations, Dr. Choi! @minje__choi#PhDone
ALT “Congratulations Dr. Minje Choi on the successful defense of your dissertation: A Computational Analysis on the Role of Social Relationships in Online Communication and Information Diffusion. David Jurgens and Daniel M. Romero, serving as committee co-chairs, presided over the oral defense.”
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. myumi.ch/QA0og
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: myumi.ch/n7wEr@oliverhaimson
Congratulations, Dr. Lu! 🎉
UMSI’s Alex Jiahong Lu successfully defended his dissertation, “Reimagining Safety and Surveillance with Eastside Detroiters.” They will soon join @RutgersCommInfo as an assistant professor!
@alexlu3211
ALT Congratulations Dr. Alex Jiahong Lu on the successful defense of your dissertation: Reimagining Safety and Surveillance with Eastside Detroiters. Tawanna Dillahunt and Mark Ackerman, serving as committee co-chairs, presided over the oral defense.
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: myumi.ch/2DGxX
“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 👁️ 💭 ➡️ myumi.ch/2Dgke
Please celebrate with us the successful dissertation defense of Dr. April Yi Wang 🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Wang! @AprilWang95#PhDone
ALT “Congratulations Dr. April Yi Wang on the successful defense of your dissertation: Interactive Programming Interfaces for Data Science Collaboration and Learning. Steve Oney and Christopher Brooks, serving as committee co-chairs, presided over the oral defense.”
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: myumi.ch/Xew83