UMD students call for required cultural competency training for staff, faculty
Some university offices and departments offer voluntary diversity and inclusion trainings or workshops.
UMD MaryPIRG launches campaign to ban Styrofoam statewide
After Prince George’s County enacted a Styrofoam ban in 2016, members of MaryPIRG want to expand the ban statewide.
UMD engineering graduate students host workshop on white supremacy, domestic terrorism
There was a “call to action to do more in our engineering community” after Richard Collins’ death, an event organizer said.
UMD just got its first cooperative house for graduate students
Cooperative Housing at the University of Maryland and the Graduate Student Government collaborated to provide the house for graduate students.
A nonprofit ranked UMD the second-most sustainable Big Ten school
This university also ranked 33 overall in Sierra Magazine’s “Cool Schools” sustainability rankings.
Prosecutors want life without parole for Sean Urbanski in murder of Richard Collins
Urbanski, a former student at this university, was indicted in July on a murder charge in the incident.
University Police investigate on-campus indecent exposure incidents
The incidents occurred on Sunday between 7:15 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., according to a UMD Alert.
Worker dies on UMD campus after falling from building under construction
The worker fell from an upper floor of the building located at Campus Drive and Route 1, an official said.
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.
SGA President A.J. Pruitt calls for more diversity training for some UMD student groups
Pruitt said in a statement that this university “failed to ensure the safety of too many of our students.”
