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School of Public Policy

New do good sculpture with university leaders

UMD Poised to Do More Good

New Courses, Faculty, Research, Opportunities Aim to Amplify Impact

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Quote sculpture in Frederick Douglass Square

UMD to Debut Minor in Anti-Black Racism

Program to Prepare Students to Identify and Disrupt Individual, Structural and Cultural Racism

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Russian ICBM rolls through Red Square

Listening to the Tick, Tick, Tick of the Doomsday Clock

With U.S. and Russia Not Talking, UMD-Hosted Expert Panel Discusses Ways to Defuse Growing Nuclear Threat

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Do Good Challenge finalists pose on stage with two giant checks and other awards

Green Lab Startup, Camp for Kids Dealing With Parents’ Cancer Take First Place in Do Good Challenge

6 Student Teams Split $20K for Their Impactful Ventures, Projects Tackling Social Issues

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collage of six Do Good Challenge finalist teams

6 Student Teams to Make Pitches for Share of $20K at Do Good Challenge

Plastic Recycling, Anti-Hate, Elder Isolation Among Areas Where Finalists Seek to Prove Social Impact

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photographs of seized fentanyl, weapons and other illicit drugs

Op/ed: Stopping Fentanyl at the Border Won’t Work

UMD Researcher Calls for Refocusing Drug Enforcement on Crime, Violence, Corruption—Not Trying to Choke Supply

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Green lightbulb with windmill

Corporate Investment Could Boost Climate-tech Innovation

UMD-led Analysis Shows Opportunity for More Balanced Approach to Funding Innovation

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people meeting with governor to discuss UMD partnership

State Partners With UMD to Plan 60% Carbon Emissions Reduction, Moore Announces

Center for Global Sustainability Analysis Will Identify Opportunities for Greenhouse Gas Cuts

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Thurgood Marshall, Jr. (center) accepts a framed pair of photos of his father and the newly named Thurgood Marshall Hall from UMD President Darryll J. Pines (left), student speaker Shivani Sidh ’25, University System of Maryland Chancellor Jay A. Perman, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice, and School of Public Policy Dean Robert Orr.

UMD Celebrates Naming of Thurgood Marshall Hall

School of Public Policy Building Now Honors Late Civil Rights Lawyer and Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice

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Thurgood Marshall shown with other civil rights activists

School of Public Policy Building to Be Named for Thurgood Marshall

Announcement Recognizes Role of Late Civil Rights Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice in Desegregating UMD and Nation’s Schools

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gloved hands scoop rice out of Terps Against Hunger meal pacakge

New Research Reveals Nonprofit Volunteers More Valued Than Ever, But Scarce

Do Good Institute Partners With New National Initiative on Sweeping Survey

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drug needle on beach

$1M NSF Grant to Help Researchers Unravel Illegal Opioid Market Operations

Study Aimed at Fentanyl and Other Drugs Could Also Shed Light on Human Smuggling, Wildlife Poaching

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