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In Brief

April 14, 2020
A portion of Campus Drive will close on or around Sunday as part of ongoing Purple Line construction.

April 14, 2020
Amid the flood of uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, UMD’s Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy (MICA) is striving to spread…

April 13, 2020
University of Maryland researchers are joining with more than a dozen other universities in the United States and Canada, South America, Europe, Africa and…

April 08, 2020
Star UMD men’s basketball forward Jalen Smith will enter the 2020 NBA Draft and forgo his remaining NCAA eligibility, he announced yesterday.

April 06, 2020
The University of Maryland aims to have all prorated refunds for room and board, parking, athletics and some other fees posted to student accounts by April 30,…

April 06, 2020
While the University of Maryland operates under severe research restrictions to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, Vice President for Research Laurie…

April 03, 2020
Due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the UMD Office of General Counsel is reminding Terp community members who are facing hardship that they may…

March 31, 2020
The Philip Merrill College of Journalism and the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism will hold an online panel discussion from 7–8 p.m. tomorrow about…

March 30, 2020
As COVID-19 cases skyrocket in the National Capitol Region, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan issued a stay-at-home order set to take effect at 8 p.m. today.

March 30, 2020
As the university shifts today to all-online learning, students will have free access to virtual textbooks from the University Book Center through the rest of…

March 29, 2020
UMD Libraries, in collaboration with libraries around the globe, is providing free access to research information and data about the rapidly evolving COVID-19…

March 27, 2020
In an email today to university employees, Jewel M. Washington, assistant vice president for human resources, urged those who do not need to report to campus…

March 26, 2020
A $10,000 gift from Northrop Grumman is supporting the continued production of hand sanitizer in Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering labs,…

March 24, 2020
The UMD Presidential Transition Team will postpone its work, including planned listening sessions, due to the coronavirus pandemic, said Darryll J. Pines, dean…

March 24, 2020
Tomorrow, Dr. Boris Lushniak, dean of the School of Public Health, will be live on Instagram answering questions from members of the university community about…

March 18, 2020
Darryll J. Pines, who will succeed Wallace D. Loh to become UMD’s next president in July, introduced a new website with information on his transition and a way…