UMD Police arrest 2 drivers, pull over 11 cars during sobriety checkpoint on Route 1 On average, University Police conducts two sobriety checkpoints each year. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
A UMD student created an app to help students find local events and entertainment The Flee app will also allow you to see where students’ friends are planning to go that night. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
Ex-USM chancellor Brit Kirwan to be honored in Maryland’s Business and Civic Hall of Fame Kirwan spent more than 30 years at the University of Maryland as a tenured math professor, provost and this university’s president. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
UMD’s biggest class of bioengineering students will get a brand-new Clark Hall Construction is slated to finish by the end of June. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
A new hotel, apartments and retail spaces are moving in near the College Park Metro Officials hope construction will begin sometime in 2018. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
Prince George’s County Schools will close Wednesday for ‘Day Without a Woman’ strike About 1,700 of the county’s teachers and 30 percent of its transportation staff requested off as part of the strike. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
UMD is one of the top producers of Fulbright students in the country For the 2016-17 academic year, 15 of this university’s Fulbright applicants received and accepted a grant. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville welcomed a huge anti-Trump mural last week “Wake up America … DEPORT TRUMP” spans the front corner of the restaurant. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
A student debt initiative could save Maryland residents $20 million a year Fifty-seven percent of graduates in the state leave school with student debt. DBK Admin December 31, 0999
Students continue pushing UMD to divest from Maryland Correctional Enterprises About 40 people came to a town hall hosted by the Prison Resistance Project and the University of Maryland’s NAACP chapter. DBK Admin December 31, 0999