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Hundreds of Volunteers Plant Trees, Pick Up Litter and Pack Up Donations on Good Neighbor Day

The 15th annual day of service brought together Terps and community members.

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Student volunteers assemble hot meals at Virtual X Kitchen during Good Neighbor Day on October 24, 2026. The meals will be distributed to local aging residents, with the intention of helping to improve food access in the College Park community.

Photo by Dylan Singleton/University of Maryland
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Research

October 26, 2026
School of Public Policy center will connect scholars and policymakers to address international challenges.
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Campus & Community

October 26, 2026
The Maryland Awards recognize leaders in sports broadcasting, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, aerospace and beyond.
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Campus & Community

October 23, 2026
UMD professional development program gets faculty, staff outdoors.
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People

October 22, 2026
UMD Alum’s Vet the Vote initiative builds trust in the system by recruiting former military members and their families to become poll workers.

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A nod to Langston Hughes’ poem, the “I, Too, Sing America” exhibition hosted by the University Libraries in Hornbake Library showcases the research findings of the 1856 Project on UMD’s historical intersections with enslaved people and the African American experience. Photographed for Maryland Today on October 21, 2026.

Photo by Dylan Singleton/University of Maryland

Campus & Community

October 23, 2026
A new University Libraries exhibition brings to light the personal stories of some of the state’s enslaved people.
Masters student Emerson Heaton conducts a virtual Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering (ARTS) session with Baltimore resident Anicia Timberlake.

Photo by Stephanie S. Cordle/University of Maryland

Research

October 22, 2026
UMD Research Changes Lives: Maryland researchers and clinicians use ‘stutter-affirming therapy’ to replace shame with positive communication goals.
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Campus & Community

October 21, 2026
Alumna’s support will help recruit and retain top scholars in a field that shaped her career in law and service.
Exhibition Another Look, Another World being installed in the Herman Maril Gallery on Friday, October 9th. The exhibition will be on view from Oct. 14th - Nov. 6th, Mondays - Fridays, 9AM-5PM.

Arts & Culture

October 21, 2026
Terps and community members celebrate the state's biodiversity in sculpture, paintings, drawings and more.

In Brief

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October 26, 2026
A $525,000 gift from Kenn Jones ’86, M.Arch. ’89 will give Maryland students an educational experience rooted in Jones’ own: A studio course where students…

October 23, 2026
UMD's main commencement ceremony will take place on May 24, 2027, at 9 a.m. at SECU Stadium, with a weather contingency time of 7 p.m.

October 23, 2026
A new master’s degree from the University of Maryland’s Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health (GEOH) will deliver the knowledge and…

October 23, 2026
Seven projects were selected for Henson Week Mini-Grants, a new funding opportunity honoring the legacy of University of Maryland alums Jim ’60 and Jane ’55…

AI at Maryland

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Research

October 20, 2026
$7.5M project unites modern and traditional AI approaches to boost logical reasoning under uncertain conditions.
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Research

October 16, 2026
UMD researchers found students avoided virtual tutors, had less interaction with course materials and lower grades.
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Research

October 15, 2026
Initiative’s AI approach could turn invasive eye injections into simple eye drops.

Terps Do Good

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Campus & Community

October 26, 2026
The 15th annual day of service brought together Terps and community members.
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Campus & Community

September 15, 2026
Volunteers debut the ElectionCycle and DemocraCycle bikes to share election information.
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Campus & Community

September 08, 2026
Improving literacy, teaching oral hygiene, hosting a free football camp and more.

Videos

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Research

October 05, 2026
Sustainable agriculture finds home in lab that feeds innovation as well as Terps in the dining halls.
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Campus & Community

July 15, 2026
Dining Services chef shares the scoop on the creamy, dreamy world of UMD ice cream
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Research

July 17, 2026
A state team assesses health, tracks populations to protect bear and human communities
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Campus & Community

May 22, 2026
At Commencement 2026, UMD and NASA alumna Jeanette Epps urges students to stay curious

From Terp Magazine

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Fall 2026

September 04, 2026
The clickable hyperlink. The Universal Product Code. The Muppets. American life wouldn’t be the same without the ingenuity of UMD researchers and alums.
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Fall 2026

September 04, 2026
After 60 years in public service, the longtime congressman and Terp retires with a legacy etched on American history, in Maryland and across UMD’s campus.
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Fall 2026

September 04, 2026
Excavations by UMD researchers and students unearth new stories about the enslaved communities at the Jefferson and Madison estates.

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