UMD will launch a $3 million center for grad students to study sustainability
The program aims to recruit women and minorities.
A UMD coalition has registered about 300 voters so far this school year
They’ve done so with the help of a “register to vote” button on Testudo.
Prince Frederick Hall earns LEED Gold rating for sustainability
To earn a Gold rating, a building has to score at least 60 points out of 110 in categories such as water efficiency, indoor environmental quality and innovation.
Student Press Law Center director tells UMD students their rights have “gotten worse”
Frank LoMonte led a discussion about the evolution of students’ First Amendment rights and the values of the Supreme Court.
Former UMD AD Kevin Anderson intervened in sexual misconduct case involving football players
Anderson’s actions represented a “serious lack of judgment,” according to a university statement.
UMD has a pool that simulates the weightlessness of space. It’s one of 6 in the world.
The 50-foot-wide pool is filled with 367,000 gallons of water.
There were 2 murder-suicides in College Park in 3 years. Here’s how responses differed.
University of Maryland Police did not send a crime alert in response to Sept. 28’s murder-suicide, but they did in 2013.
“Such an impact”: Hundreds remember John McNamara at UMD Chapel
An honorary Maryland basketball jersey for McNamara featured prominently at the service.
A UMD student raised money for a children’s organization to honor his mother’s memory
On Saturday, he ran in the Race For Every Child at the Freedom Plaza in Washington.
Some UMD students may have to live in dorm lounges again this year
“It never really felt like home,” said one student who had to do so a few years back.