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The University of Maryland’s First-Generation Student Association has expanded its activities and outreach this semester to support students who are the first in their family to attend a four-year college in the United States.
Read More on UMD first-generation students club hopes to provide community, resources for families (The Diamondback)Task Force Releases Report on Antisemitism and Islamophobia (Maryland Today)
Last year, a Joint Presidential and University Senate Task Force on Antisemitism and Islamophobia was created to provide guidance, recommendations and counsel on a strategy to confront antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus.
Read More on Task Force Releases Report on Antisemitism and Islamophobia (Maryland Today)Signs of Accessibility in Performing Arts (Maryland Today)
New TDPS Director Is School’s First Deaf Leader
Read More on Signs of Accessibility in Performing Arts (Maryland Today)Project Embraces Tribal History With Modern Technology (Maryland Today)
Piscataway, UMD Team Up to 3D-Print Replicas of Peace Medals
Read More on Project Embraces Tribal History With Modern Technology (Maryland Today)The rising death toll and humanitarian crisis in Gaza have left many university community members grieving.
Read More on ‘My family back home is struggling’: UMD community grieves Palestinians killed in Gaza (The Diamondback)This year’s festival highlighted social inequities to increase awareness of issues relating to a language’s home region.
Read More on Language house students center international conflicts, social inequality in annual film festival (The Diamondback)The Brown University graduate made history in July by becoming the University of Maryland’s first full-time, tenure line deaf faculty member when she was named professor and director of this university’s theatre, dance and performing studies school.
Read More on Pioneering UMD Deaf faculty member Jill Bradbury aims to improve accessibility in theater (The Diamondback)UMD faculty rights group rebrands, pushes for collective bargaining (The Diamondback)
The University of Maryland’s AAUP chapter rebranded itself in October to become United Academics of Maryland – University of Maryland.
Read More on UMD faculty rights group rebrands, pushes for collective bargaining (The Diamondback)Miss Unity Pageant Celebrates the Legacy and Support of Black Women on Campus (The Black Explosion)
On Saturday, the Nyumburu Cultural Center hosted the 47th Annual Miss Unity Scholarship Pageant, hosted by University of Maryland Alum and TV personality, best known for her role on The Real Housewives of Potomac, Robyn Dixon.
Read More on Miss Unity Pageant Celebrates the Legacy and Support of Black Women on Campus (The Black Explosion)UMD hosts multiple events for Native and Indigenous Heritage Month (Stories Beneath the Shell)
University of Maryland students and community members honored Native and Indigenous culture by painting plant pots in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union’s Studio A last Thursday.
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