After a UMD student’s death, friends and family are creating a scholarship in his honor
After former student Mason Jayne died in a car accident on May 26, friends and family will hold a philanthropy event to promote safe driving.
UMD names its new university relations vice president
Jacqueline Lewis, the University of Iowa Foundation’s senior vice president for development, will assume her new role in August.
UMD student Sean Urbanski indicted in murder of Richard Collins
Sean Urbanski was charged with first and second-degree murder, as well first-degree assault.
The University of Maryland names new associate vice president
Joel Seligman is currently the associate vice president and chief communications officer at the University of New Hampshire.
College Park’s latest pizza place is open for business
Lotsa Pizza is planning another $3 pizza event in August, after most students return to the campus.
Three new solar canopies are helping UMD exceed its renewable energy goal
The canopies are being built on the Terrapin Trail, Mowatt Lane and Regents Drive parking garages.
A group of UMD graduate students created a device to help blind people “see”
The device, called HandSight, uses audio and haptic feedback technology to convey information to the user.
One person suffered injuries from an “adverse chemical reaction” in Chemistry Building
Any byproduct from the reaction has disappeared.
University of Maryland announces its new chief diversity officer
Roger L. Worthington, a UMD professor, was named interim associate provost and chief diversity officer.
New UMD education dean Jennifer Rice is an experienced academic policy researcher
Jennifer Rice, the founding director of the college of education’s Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership and a Big Ten Academic Leadership fellow, will become the college’s dean in July.