UMPD charges man with malicious property destruction after swastika found on trash cart
Ronald Alford, 52, was issued a denial of access to the campus.
UMD launches center to research diversity and inclusion issues in higher education
The center will be housed in the counseling, higher education, and special education department.
UMD offers opportunities for international LGBTQ students
This university’s LGBT Equity Center has a partnership with the International Student and Scholar Services office.
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.