In Brief
March 06, 2020
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan last night announced three confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Montgomery County, Md.
March 06, 2020
Robert Briber, professor of materials science and engineering, will become interim dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering on April 1 after Dean…
March 06, 2020
Terp Young Scholars, a UMD program that invites academically talented high school students to experience campus life and earn college credit, was named to…
March 05, 2020
Members of the campus community now have the option to include pronouns and name pronunciation in the university’s digital portal for turning in assignments,…
March 03, 2020
As novel coronavirus continues to spread worldwide, the university today announced the cancellation of all Education Abroad programs for spring break 2020 and…
February 29, 2020
The university yesterday canceled Education Abroad programs in Italy after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned against nonessential…
February 28, 2020
The state Senate yesterday unanimously passed a resolution praising UMD’s College of Education for “100 years of creating knowledgeable and transformative…
February 27, 2020
The University of Maryland has suspended Education Abroad programs in South Korea this semester in light of growing novel coronavirus risk in that country,…
February 26, 2020
Researchers at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) and the University of Maryland have received $850,000 from the National Science…
February 24, 2020
The University of Maryland has been recognized as a top producer of Fulbright students by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural…
February 18, 2020
UMD’s annual spring concert is undergoing a redesign this year in an effort to revamp and increase attendance at Art Attack, Student Entertainment Events (SEE)…
February 14, 2020
The Office of Community Engagement is seeking volunteers to serve as team leaders or environmental ambassadors on Good Neighbor Day, the annual community day…
February 13, 2020
A $50,000 grant from the Edward St. John Foundation to the Maryland Blended Reality Center (MBRC) will support the use of new immersive technologies for…
February 07, 2020
A University of Maryland researcher has received a $2.6 million federal grant to develop a suite of computational tools for use in reconstructing DNA segments,…
February 04, 2020
The University of Maryland received $1.16 million for an endowed professorship through the Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund, a state program created to…
January 30, 2020
The University of Maryland has stopped authorizing travel to China until further notice, and suspended Education Abroad programming in China for undergraduates…