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An End to the Bleeding

UMD Researchers Partner With Knoxville, Tenn., on Data-Driven Approach to Reducing Gun Violence

Campus & Community

For Testudo, a Happy 90th

Orginal Mascot Statue Retains Sheen After Kidnappings, Repeated Moves and Student ‘Offerings’

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Eight Alums Elected to UMD Foundation’s Board of Trustees

New Members to Advocate for University Priorities

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Language Opens Doors to Alum’s Book

Retired Climate Scientist Spent Months Teaching English to Thai Kindergarteners

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Sea-Level Rise Could Leave Many Marooned Earlier, UMD Study Finds

Before Inundation, Isolation Will Impact U.S. Coastal Communities

Campus & Community

For Testudo, a Happy 90th

Orginal Mascot Statue Retains Sheen After Kidnappings, Repeated Moves and Student ‘Offerings’

People

Eight Alums Elected to UMD Foundation’s Board of Trustees

New Members to Advocate for University Priorities

People

Language Opens Doors to Alum’s Book

Retired Climate Scientist Spent Months Teaching English to Thai Kindergarteners

Research

Sea-Level Rise Could Leave Many Marooned Earlier, UMD Study Finds

Before Inundation, Isolation Will Impact U.S. Coastal Communities

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$78.2M Cooperative Agreement Aims to Merge Engineering, Data Science

Army Research Lab Award to Focus on Advanced AI, Machine Learning

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Op/ed: AI Has Potential to Solve Grand Challenges

Pines Says Higher Ed Institutions Should Consider the Technology’s Upsides Along With Risks

Athletics

Behind Stellar Pitching, Baseball Wins First Big Ten Tournament

Terps Head to NCAA Regional

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Friday Night Live With the City of College Park

Events will feature a variety of musical genres and performers and will include something for everyone: music, food and entertainment. There will be children’s performers, a bounce house, kids’ activities and arts and crafts.

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It isn’t that their whole evolutionary mission is to be pathogenic to humans; humans are sort of inadvertent intruders in the pathways of these organisms.

Rita R. Colwell

Distinguished University Professor emerita of cell biology and molecular genetics, on the disease-causing Vibrio bacteria found in the seaweed blob inching across the Caribbean

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In Brief

$1.9M in USDA Grants Supports Research to Boost Meat and Dairy Production

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded three teams of UMD animal science researchers $650,000 each to help farmers improve production through better selective breeding or disease mitigation. The grants are part of a $13 million USDA program to promote innovative work in cellular, molecular, genomic and whole-animal aspects of nutrition, growth and lactation.

Smith School Establishes Risk Management Consortium

UMD’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is launching an initiative to assess and address risks to government and industry due to extreme weather and climate change, cybersecurity, and instability in national economies and many industries.

Several Summer Road Closures on the Way

As commencement ceremonies end, marking the end of the academic year, Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Carlo Colella alerts drivers of summer road closures for construction of the state’s light-rail Purple Line though campus and several other projects underway at the university.

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Features

‘You Have Learned How to Be Fearless’

2023 Commencement Honors the ‘Terrapin Grit’ of Thousands of UMD Graduates

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2023 UMD Summer Camps

Perennial Favorites and New Programs Offer Choices for Kids of All Ages

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