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Campus & Community

The Year in Pictures: 2025

Our Favorite Photos Chronicle UMD Progress, Pride and a ‘Ribbiting’ Speech

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Kermit the Frog speaks to graduates at UMD Commencement
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Research

December 11, 2025
Pines, Nelson, Raghavan Honored for ‘Translating Research Into Products and Services That Improve Lives’
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Campus & Community

December 12, 2025
Urban Studies Students Partner With Prince George’s Congregations to Help Expand Their Mission of Service
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Campus & Community

December 12, 2025
Psychologist’s Gift Will Help Expand Benjamin Building, Meet Pressing Need for Special Education Teachers
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Campus & Community

December 11, 2025
President Cheers Year of UMD as ‘One of One’ in Higher Ed

Recent Articles

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Research

December 11, 2025
UMD and Princeton Scientists Apply Machine Learning to Satellite Imagery to Tally Endangered Species
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Research

December 11, 2025
Mathematicians Identify Vaccination Strategies That Could Eliminate HPV-Related Cancers
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Research

December 10, 2025
Firms Report Pains From Federal Workforce Cuts, Higher Costs, Tariffs
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Research

December 10, 2025
$7M NSF Grant Funds New Institute Targeting How Tech Has Changed Labor Market Statistics

In Brief

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December 16, 2025
The University of Maryland had its strongest showing to date in the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, with 46 undergraduates of limited…

December 09, 2025
UMD researchers revealed that chemical compounds from Canada’s wildfires remained in the atmosphere in College Park, Md., months after the smoke subsided,…

December 09, 2025
Amid clips of Lady Gaga’s world tour, bedazzled Labubus and the shocking Luka Dončić trade, Google’s 2025 Year in Search video on Monday featured advice from…

December 08, 2025
A University of Maryland researcher has discovered a new method to extract significantly more information from existing satellite-based wildfire detection…

AI at Maryland

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Research

December 11, 2025
UMD and Princeton Scientists Apply Machine Learning to Satellite Imagery to Tally Endangered Species
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Research

December 08, 2025
UMD Research Shows Systems Left Unchecked in Simulation Harmed Humans to Fulfill Objectives
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Research

December 08, 2025
Philippines Government Agency to Test FIRE-funded Project

Terps Do Good

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Research

December 08, 2025
Philippines Government Agency to Test FIRE-funded Project
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Campus & Community

December 02, 2025
Giving Tuesday 2025 Highlights Terp Projects Making Positive Community Impact
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Campus & Community

November 24, 2025
From a Residence Hall Feast to Faculty and Staff Invitations to Students, UMD Community Comes Together

Videos

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Campus & Community

December 11, 2025
President Cheers Year of UMD as ‘One of One’ in Higher Ed
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Research

December 03, 2025
UMD Research Changes Lives: Engineers Develop Durable, Reusable Laparoscope for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Campus & Community

November 24, 2025
Lecturer Teaches the Art and Science of Thousands-Years-Old Craft
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Research

November 21, 2025
UMD Research Changes Lives: Team Studying Connections Between Failing Infrastructure, Health Problems

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Features

September 15, 2025
UMD scientists built a fungus that wipes out mosquitoes. With African partners, they hope to save millions of lives.
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Features

September 15, 2025
When his Olympic dreams on the bike came crashing down, Ryan Collins ’16, MBA ’20 struggled to even hold the handlebars. Now he’s racking up records as an elite ultracyclist.

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