UMD professor continues decades-long research comparing foster care to orphanages
Nathan Fox and his colleagues have examined the outcomes of Romanian children placed in foster care early in their lives.
Board of Regents OKs new major at UMD focused on virtual reality design
The major, called immersive media design, will combine computer science and art.
The federal government opened a new probe into UMD’s Title IX process this year
It opened three cases in 2017.
A UMD student developed an app to help people forge new friendships on campus
The app requires users to be in Bluetooth range — or about 350 feet of each other — to connect.
Over half of anti-vax Facebook ads are from two organizations, UMD researchers say
The team found that pro-vaccine advertisements on Facebook came from a wider variety of sources than anti-vaccination.
Jason Yellin hired as new Maryland athletics strategic communications officer
Yellin joins after spending about four years as an assistant communications commissioner for the Big Ten Conference.
After she was pulled from a space expedition, UMD alumna talks moving forward
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps hopes to finish her mission and get to space in a couple years.
The new Testudo site will be open 24/7 — but it won’t be online for at least 5 more years
UMD is considering two vendors — Oracle and Workday — to replace Testudo.
One person manages most of UMD’s hate bias response, but another staffer is on the way
They're expected to begin "sometime during the spring."
College Park man accused of trespassing in Knox Road apartment wearing only a towel
Eric Tata is facing burglary, trespassing and peeping Tom charges.