Steve Chen elected University of Maryland RHA president for next academic year
The organization’s newly elected president and vice president will take office May 3.
UMD University Senate approves updated Strategic Plan
The strategic plan would introduce new majors, increase graduate fellowship funding and emphasize recruiting minority faculty.
UMD student donates stem cells to leukemia patient
“The opportunity to give somebody who is struggling from cancer another chance of life … I saw it as my responsibility as a human being.”
Dining Services outlines technology behind new program’s hand scanners
Starting in the fall, dining halls will have biometric hand scanners.
Student affairs professor addresses intersectionality, identity factors for UMD students
All students identify themselves in terms of various sociocultural factors, and in all different ways.
UMD women’s studies professor wins 2016 Emily Toth Award
LaMonda Horton-Stallings won for her book, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures.
Hillel could move to a new location behind the Landmark apartments
The move would allow for a larger center for Jewish life.
Anytime-dining program to combat rising student food insecurity
Nearly 1,200 students on a dining plan ran out of dining points during the fall semester.
Scientists study bat species affected by wind turbines
Red and hoary bats together account for 70 percent of the bats killed by wind turbines in the eastern United States.
Notorious former UMD student Jayson Blair visits journalism school, speaks on plagiarism and ethics
Blair made national headlines in May 2003 when news broke that he’d fabricated and plagiarized at least 36 articles during a six-month period for The New York Times.