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In Brief

July 09, 2020
Maryland Athletics today shared the following statement from the Big Ten Conference.

July 08, 2020
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education has reaffirmed the University of Maryland’s accreditation, following a nearly yearlong review.

July 08, 2020
Non-industrialized societies from centuries past have tightened or loosened their social rules depending on external threats, just as industrialized ones today…

July 01, 2020
The university is offering voluntary COVID-19 testing to all faculty, staff and students on July 14 and 15, Jewel Washington, assistant vice president for…

June 29, 2020
From laws banning panhandling to bulldozers and firehoses clearing encampments, a new project from University of Maryland student journalists and partners…

June 27, 2020
No student-athlete tested positive for COVID-19 during an initial on-campus screening of 105 student-athletes earlier this month, Maryland Athletics announced…

June 19, 2020
The Big Ten Network will air 24 hours of solely Maryland programming on Tuesday, featuring 16 games across six sports and highlighted by the television debut…

June 15, 2020
With their reliance on color to find food and dazzle potential mates, escape predators and navigate diverse terrain, it’s no surprise birds have excellent…

June 12, 2020
Fentanyl tops the list of drugs detected in overdose patients at two Baltimore hospital emergency departments, suggesting that hospitals and medical systems…

June 11, 2020
University of Maryland geophysicists who analyzed thousands of recordings of echoes from the boundary between Earth’s molten core and the solid mantle layer…

June 10, 2020
The University of Maryland tested 251 employees and students for COVID-19 yesterday and Monday in a first-of-its-kind effort on campus. 

June 10, 2020
University of Maryland researchers will lead a five-year, $10-million project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and…

June 01, 2020
A plan to resume research activities on the Maryland campus remains in Phase 0, a planning and preparation phase to ready the campus for the resumption of…

May 29, 2020
The University System of Maryland (USM) COVID Research & Innovation Task Force yesterday announced a competition inviting its community to develop apps…

May 29, 2020
A $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will help a UMD researcher answer a longstanding question in biology: How do cells go from being…

May 22, 2020
Seven seniors were named Maryland’s top undergraduate researchers of the year. Nominated by faculty for the awards, which are sponsored by the Maryland Center…