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The Women in Engineering (WIE) program in the A. James Clark School of Engineering is hosting a March fitness challenge to celebrate Women’s History Month and honor astronaut Jeanette Epps Ph.D. ’00, M.S. ’94, scheduled to become the first African American woman to join the International Space Station crew this year. The WIE Run the World 93 Minute Virtual Movement Challenge is a virtual community-building event centered on the time it takes for the International Space Station to orbit the planet.
A new University of Maryland app for students, faculty and staff, and visitors offers an all-in-one consolidating a range of services and resources in one virtual location.
A webinar Monday sponsored by the Juanita Tamayo Lott Endowment in Asian American Studies will feature experts and activists in a discussion of the links between the Black Lives Matter movement and Japanese Latin Americans’ fight for recognition.
Undergraduate students can now make changes to their grading methods under the Spring 2021 semester pass/fail grading policy using a Testudo web app, Interim Senior Vice President and Provost Ann G. Wylie announced today.
The University of Maryland was named a Top Producing Institution for the Fulbright U.S. Student and Scholar programs for 2020-21, according to rankings published Monday in The Chronicle of Higher Education. UMD was one of 17 colleges and universities in the country honored in both categories.
The University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll and George Washington University's Project on Middle East Political Science are sponsoring a new initiative to probe the assessments of scholars on the Middle East.
Student Entertainment Events is reimagining the UMD springtime tradition of Art Attack as a weeklong festival highlighted by a nightly variety show, Liv Brady, SEE's concerts director, announced Friday. Art Attack 2021, running April 26-30, will not have a concert, but will include all types of events, from DIY crafts to game shows, and each night will conclude with an outdoor movie showing and the student variety show competition.
A video by a cross-disciplinary quartet of Terps and a messaging campaign by a public health science major were among the winners announced yesterday of the University System of Maryland’s COVID Research & Innovation Task Force’s Public Health Challenge.
University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines sent the following email to the campus community today: In the coming weeks, we will cross the one-year threshold since the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated remote instruction for the vast majority of our courses and telework for most of our operations. I want to thank all of you for your resilience and resolve during this challenging time.
The UMD women's lacrosse season opener at Johns Hopkins scheduled for Sunday has been postponed, Maryland Athletics announced today. The institutions mutually agreed to the decision out of an abundance of caution due to positive COVID-19 test results in the Blue Jays' program.
The UMD chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa, one of the most prestigious national societies to recognize leadership, is accepting applications for the Spring 2021 semester. ODK brings together juniors, seniors and graduate students with outstanding faculty members to recognize campus leaders and to encourage other students to achieve.
University Health Center Director Dr. Spyridon S. Marinopoulos sent the following email to the campus community tonight: I hope everyone's semester is off to a healthy start. I'm writing today with a few critical updates and reminders, which are detailed within this email.
The university today implemented enhanced health precautions within La Plata Hall following a rise in positive COVID-19 cases there.
University President Darryll J. Pines sent the following email to the campus community today: I am pleased to announce the search committee for the university's next senior vice president and provost, who will be charged with ensuring excellence and diversity of programs, faculty and students across the entire university as our chief academic officer.
Virtual campus tours planned for Black History Month will underscore the positive and meaningful African American presence at the University of Maryland.
The University of Maryland Child Development Center opened to families this morning, providing a convenient new option for the university and local community, Carlo Colella, vice president for administration and finance, announced.
Three Maryland women’s lacrosse players were named preseason All-Americans by Inside Lacrosse, the publication announced today: Lizzie Colson, Brindi Griffin and Grace Griffin.
The Do Good Institute will celebrate Black history this month in its ongoing speaker series The Leadership Exchange: Real Conversations with Leaders Making a Difference.
The Maryland-Michigan women’s basketball matchup scheduled for Sunday has been postponed due to an activity pause within the Wolverines’ athletic department.
The Department of Transportation Services (DOTS) is turning unoccupied parking spaces on campus during the pandemic into a temporary outdoor home for the arts. The DOTS Art Park initiative aims to foster creative expression by inviting UMD student artists and programs and departments to apply to create an installation or presentation that expresses their thoughts and feelings during this time.
The Do Good Institute and Office of International Affairs encourage students and recent alumni to apply by Feb. 5 to serve as a UMD nominee for the international Universitas21 (U21) RISE Showcase and Awards. Now in its second year, U21 RISE (Real Impact on Society & Environment) aims to showcase student achievement in sustainability and social innovation around the world.
Two University of Maryland deans—Bonnie Thornton Dill of the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) and Lucy Dalglish of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism—were reappointed to lead their colleges for another year beyond the end of their second regular five-year terms, Senior Vice President and Provost Mary Ann Rankin announced today.
Five Terps were named to the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association preseason All-America team, the organization announced this week: Jared Bernhardt, Bubba Fairman, Roman Puglise, Justin Shockey and Logan Wisnauskas.
The Philip Merrill College of Journalism and CNN have established an endowed graduate fellowship honoring an alum and founding employee of the network, Dean Lucy A. Dalglish announced Thursday. The fellowship is funded by a $300,000 gift from CNN to honor Merrill College alum Richard “Rick” Davis M.A. ’84.
A University of Maryland researcher has developed a new variant of the much-heralded gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, an advance won its original discoverers a Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year and opened new paths in science.
Since its discovery in 1915, the giant dinosaur Spinosaurus has puzzled palaeontologists worldwide, with scientists last year suggesting it was an aquatic predator that used its large tail to swim and actively pursue fish in the water. New research from the University of Maryland and Queen Mary University of London reignites the debate, arguing in a study published today in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica that Spinosaurus was more like a giant, flightless heron or stork than an agile underwater hunter.
The Feb. 10 women's basketball matchup between No. 7 Maryland (11-2, 7-1 Big Ten) and Michigan State (9-2, 4-2) has been moved to 4 p.m. Thursday at the Xfinity Center, Maryland Athletics announced today. It will be televised on the Big Ten Network.
Junior infielder Maxwell Costes was selected as a preseason first-team All-American, D1baseball.com announced Monday. Costes, who emerged as one of the premier first basemen in the Big Ten Conference during his COVID-shortened sophomore campaign, slashed .432/.620/.750 in 15 games last spring.
The Maryland women’s basketball game against Rutgers scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday has been postponed, Maryland Athletics announced Monday. The decision was mutually agreed upon out of an abundance of caution surrounding the health and safety of participants.
An interdisciplinary team from the University of Maryland has won a finalist slot in the U.S. Department of Energy’s second annual Solar District Cup. UMD was one of 35 teams from 34 collegiate institutions (progressing from the original 59 teams from 57 institutions) in the United States selected to advance to the finals and vie for solar victory in April.
Applications are now being accepted for the University of Maryland’s “Shark Tank”-style event for student entrepreneurs, the Pitch Dingman Competition. Undergraduate and graduate students from all majors are invited to compete for a record $65,000 in startup money.
The Division of Information Technology has begun work to improve networking equipment in South Campus Commons, Graduate Hills and Graduate Gardens apartments. This nearly $2 million upgrade will include more than 2,100 new wireless access points that support Wi-Fi 6, increased wireless coverage and density and expanded bandwidth.
The Maryland-Iowa women’s basketball matchup scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed, Maryland Athletics announced last night. Out of caution due to today’s inauguration activities in Washington, D.C., Iowa decided not to travel to Maryland.
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