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My team and I received a FIA-Deutsch seed grant in 2015 for our cyberbullying mitigation project. Prior to receiving the grant, my cyberbullying detection/mitigation research primarily used automatic methods to …

My FIA seed grant was a fabulous crash course in the future of academia. This blog post is about what I learned on the way to creating ResearchIQ, a dashboard prototype to show the impact of research funding in traditional media, academic publications, and social media. The seed grant experience changed my entire orientation to academia.

It all began with one word: Cookbook.

I was a sophomore, participating in a small group of journalism students discussing potential innovations in the field as part of my honors program …

The Wikid GRRLs project began with an article in the New York Times in 2011 on Wikipedia’s gender gap, reporting that less than 15 percent of the contributors to the online encyclopedia are women. The seed that FIA sowed with Wikid GRRLs more than three years ago has blossomed into a fruit that has benefited more than 65 (overwhelmingly minority) girls, nine undergraduate students, three graduate students and three faculty members.

The Wikid GRRLS project teaches girls online skills for knowledge projects. It has been found that the use of computers in school can offset the “digital divide” but various factors play a role in how effective schools can be at ameliorating the divide. Depending on what skills are emphasized, it may be that some students know how to use some computer functions, but they do not know how to problem solve and use the computer in a holistic sense. Exploring what it means to know how to use a computer in a holistic sense is a possible area of future study for Wikid GRLLS.

Wikid GRLLs, one of the 2012-2013 FIA-Deutsch Seed Grant Competition winners, will receive funding from Wayne State University in fall 2015 to continue their work.

The FIA-Deustch Seed Grant project “Flip the Museum” was featured in TERP.

Congratulations to the four teams of FIA-Deutsch Seed Grant Competition winners! Altogether, these four teams included 18 students and eight faculty mentors from nine UMD colleges and schools.

Congratulations to the FIA-Deutsch Seed Grant Competition semifinalist teams! They include 64 students and faculty mentors from 11 UMD colleges and schools!

Congratulations to the five teams of FIA-Deutsch Seed Grant Competition winners! Altogether, these five teams included 22 students and six faculty mentors from 9 UMD colleges and schools.

Congratulations to the FIA-Deutsch Seed Grant Competition semifinalist teams! They include 56 students and faculty mentors from 10 UMD colleges and schools!