How Kishonna Gray turned her passion for gaming into a tool for connection and social justice
11/21/2024
UMSI’s newest professor, Kishonna Gray, explores how gaming can reshape how we think about technology, community and inclusion.
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Industry Insights: Meet copyright expert and UMSI lecturer Melissa Levine
11/18/2024
In this Q&A, Levine shares how emerging technologies like generative AI are making copyright more complicated, and reveals why contracts are anything but boring.
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Meet Rebecca Frank, UMSI’s newest assistant professor
11/14/2024
In her profile, Frank talks about trustworthiness, risk and the preservation of digital repositories.
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Industry Insights: Meet video game entrepreneur and UMSI lecturer Natalie Fang
09/17/2024
In this Q&A, Fang discusses how UX methods can power the success of a startup and shares the inspiration behind her game-changing video game studio, Nochi.
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Industry Insights: Meet auto UX leader and UMSI lecturer Bill Thompson
08/26/2024
In this Q&A, Thompson reveals what drives his passion for teaching and how he’s preparing UMSI students to lead the way in the rapidly evolving automotive industry.
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From opera stage manager to superstar librarian: 4 questions with UMSI clinical professor Kristin Fontichiaro
02/19/2024
Fontichiaro shares her love of opera, her path to the field of information and how school and public libraries are changing in the midst of a growing parental rights movement in America.
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Jeff Sheng talks about his love of photography, social movements and finding the “freedom to explore” different subjects
11/13/2023
Fusing his love of art, technology and a deep passion for learning, Jeff Sheng’s research explores the impact of the internet in underground social movements.
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Nicole Ellison on social media, self-perception and her love of Ann Arbor
11/02/2023
Ellison’s research focuses on the impact of social media and technology on human perception, behavior and community.
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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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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."
