Provost Seeks Community Input During Strategic Planning
Forums, Weekly Questions to Aid Committees Preparing Report to Shape UMD’s Future
Campus & Community
KN95 Mask Order Expanded; Guidelines Offered for Reuse, Disposal
COVID Testing Schedule Altered for Week Ahead
Creating ‘Prepared Parents’ Collaboratively
UMD Health Education Program Reaches Rural Families in Honduras
How Gels Plus Electricity Could One Day Fix You Up Fast
UMD Research Team Develops Alternative to Sutures for Cuts, Tears
Campus & Community
Provost Seeks Community Input During Strategic Planning
Forums, Weekly Questions to Aid Committees Preparing Report to Shape UMD’s Future
Campus & Community
Creating ‘Prepared Parents’ Collaboratively
UMD Health Education Program Reaches Rural Families in Honduras
Research
How Gels Plus Electricity Could One Day Fix You Up Fast
UMD Research Team Develops Alternative to Sutures for Cuts, Tears
Recent Articles
UMD Report: Complex Challenges Slowed Prince George’s COVID Vaccine Response
Comprehensive Community Approach Needed to Encourage Recovery From Pandemic
Study Finds People of Color More Often Deemed Eligible for Life Sentences in Federal Court
Sentencing Guidelines May Reinforce Bias in Criminal Justice System
Terps work together 4 Maryland to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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Women’s Tennis: Bedford Cup
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Wind Down for the Weekend Meditation
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Volleyball vs. Wisconsin
Sep 25
Football vs. Kent State
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#HappyHensonDay
In honor of alum Jim Henson’s 85th birthday, wear something green or take pictures with the Jim Henson and Kermit statue and post it on social media.
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The Washington Post(R)agweed season is going to extend way into the fall and winter, presumably, and the tree pollen will start way early. So the overall season will become quite long.
In Brief
Vote Now: Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate Nominated for 2021 Three Minute Thesis Competition
Patricia Razafindrambinina, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is one of 20 contestants in this year’s Universitas 21 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT), which challenges research students to communicate the significance of their projects to a nonspecialist audience in a concise and compelling way.
Toolkit Aims to Help Small Businesses Stay in Place
The University of Maryland’s Small Business Anti-Displacement Network (SBAN) has compiled an interactive toolkit of more than 20 implementable strategies for small business leaders to protect vulnerable businesses, especially those owned by immigrants and people of color, from displacement, closure and the ongoing stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic.
CMNS Dean Varshney Named Interim Vice President for Research
University President Darryll J. Pines sent the following email to campus administrators today: Today, I am announcing the appointment of Dr. Amitabh Varshney, Ph.D., as interim vice president for research for the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) and University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), effective Monday, Oct. 11.
Features
It’s All Good
How Terps Cooked Up Food Recovery Network 10 Years Ago and Grew It Into a Nationwide Hunger- and Waste-Fighting Force
A Campus Legacy, by Design
Architect Alums Shaped 25+ UMD Buildings—and Counting