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‘Quantum Steampunk’ Creative Writing Course Explores the Science of Science Fiction

Physics, English Faculty Combine Futuristic Themes With Victorian-Era Aesthetics

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From a Mountaintop, UMD Alum Encounters Toxin-Emitting Olive Bushes, Smothering Vines and the Imperfection of Conservation

In New Book, ‘Bad Naturalist’ Details Efforts to Bring a Virginia Peak Back to Its Roots

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UMD Grad Jason Reynolds Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’

Popular Author of YA, Children’s Books About Kids of Color to Receive $800K

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Art-Science Projects to Explore Quantum Creativity

Newly Funded Artistic Collaborations Seek to Explain Quantum Concepts

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5 Summer Reads by Asian and Asian American Authors

AAPI Literature and Media Club Founder and President Shares Recommendations

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Student Works Awarded in Expanded Sadat Arts for Justice and Peace Program

Music, Poetry Added to Competition; Entries Centered on Freedom of Speech

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Capital-area Chronicler Turns the Page

Departing Washington Post Columnist Shares 20 Years of Family Tales, Reader Favorites

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5 African American Works of Art Everyone Should Know

From Pulitzer Prize-winning Poetry to Renowned Modern Dance, Faculty Experts Share Their Picks

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A Peek Inside … English Professor Christina Walter’s Office

With Collection of Optical Toys, Seeing Isn’t Always Believing

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Jewish Folklore Goes Queer in Alum’s New Novel

The Mystical and Mundane Meet in Story Inspired by Author’s Eastern European Family Matriarchs

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‘Bridging’ an Academic Divide

Faculty and Students Bring Writing Course to D.C. Corrections Facilities

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Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman

‘Their Histories Are Histories of Solidarity’

UMD Experts Help New PBS Documentaries Present Fuller Picture of Tubman, Douglass

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