Terps Vote coalition hopes to register UMD student voters before Maryland primaries
Though millennials are now the largest voting demographic, many of them still don’t vote.
UMD’s public policy school wins $3,500 for its Do Good Campus initiative
The public policy school won the inaugural Voinovich Public Innovation Challenge.
Maryland Stadium and Xfinity Center are getting gender-inclusive family restrooms
The family restrooms already in the Xfinity Center and Maryland Stadium will become gender inclusive.
Students, friends, family gather at McKeldin to remember Christina Koutsoukos
More than 100 people gathered in front of McKeldin Library for a vigil ceremony to light candles and release balloons in her honor.
‘Spread Hummus, Not Hate’: Jewish and Muslim advocates rally at UMD for unity
Members of the Greater Washington Muslim Jewish Forum also met with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland).
MaryPIRG brings Mayor Patrick Wojahn to first meeting, lays out plans for semester
Wojahn, who addressed the group Wednesday, worked with PIRG branches in Wisconsin.
New UMD initiative seeks to address diversity issues, open campus dialogue
The Maryland Dialogues on Diversity and Community, which the University of Maryland announced Monday in an email to the student body, seek to draw members of the university into conversation.
Aldon Morris notes W.E.B. Du Bois’ forgotten impact on sociology
“The lesson that I learned from Du Bois is that we must complain, we must agitate for change,” he said.
UMD researchers find genes that may lead to flesh-eating bacterial infection treatment
More than 500,000 deaths occur each year across the world because of these life-threatening infections.
A UMD-led team will explore public opinion about using personal online data in research
A research team led by the University of Maryland received a grant from the National Science Foundation for the study.