At TED Talks-style event, UMD students discuss topics from immigration to bees Five students presented speeches before more than 120 people. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
Clothesline Project helps UMD sexual assault survivors tell “stories that need to be told” Stories of domestic and sexual abuse survivors written on T-shirts hung from clotheslines in Hornbake Plaza. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
Martin O’Malley will teach a political leadership course at UMD this fall Contemporary Issues in Political Leadership and Participation; Leadership in the Information Age, is open to all undergraduate students DBK Admin December 31, 0999
Police charge UMD student after seizing 375 THC cartridges from College Park home Prince George’s County Police tracked a suspicious package to the address and searched the home on March 28. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
The Green Tidings food truck has returned to UMD after a seven-month absence The menu included rigatoni with beef ragout and a veggie burrito. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
A team of UMD sociology professors launched a fundraiser to study D.C. protests They plan to survey attendees of Washington protests, such as the March for Science and the People’s Climate March. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
One of Terp Thon’s Miracle Kids is coming to UMD next year Jaiwen Hsu was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, in 2010. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
UMD Jewish community remains unified in wake of anti-Semitic threats across the nation Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 27 this year, 100 bomb threats were called into Jewish centers and day schools in the U.S. and Canada. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
UMD’s new Special Olympics college chapter is the first of its kind in Maryland The Student Government Association approved the group in January. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
UMD graduate students call for more affordable off-campus housing options in College Park The Graduate Student Government hosted a panel to discuss how housing issues affect students. DBK Admin December 31, 0999