UMD to begin renovations for 5 cultural centers over winter break (The Diamondback)
The University of Maryland will begin renovation of five new cultural centers in the Cole Field House over winter break, according to Yvette Lerma Jones, the diversity, equity and inclusion director for the university’s student affairs division.
Confronting Anti-Black Racism (College of Education)
A Grand Challenges Q&A with Kimberly Griffin
UMD’s First Black Leader, Champion for Diversity, Dies (Maryland Today)
Former Chancellor John B. Slaughter Led Community Through 1980s Turmoil
Students from the University of Maryland presented their vision for the Lakeland neighborhood to a crowd of current and former residents inside the community’s Embry African Methodist Episcopal Church on Tuesday.
Funded by UMD Grand Challenge Grants, INFO is playing an integral role in these initiatives
UMD exhibition explores history of student activism for underrepresented groups (The Diamondback)
A new exhibition room celebrating the University of Maryland’s history of student activism for underrepresented groups is open in Hornbake Library.
A History Hidden From View (Maryland Today)
Geology Students Search for Early Gravesite of Historic African American Church
The Potential of Artificial Intelligence to Empower Teachers and Advance Equity
A Grand Challenges Q&A with Jing Liu
UMD sees 46 hate bias incident reports in November amid violence in Israel, Palestine
The University of Maryland has seen a spike in hate bias incident reports on campus in recent weeks after a surge of violence in Israel and Palestine.
Discussing Blackness, Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Israel
Efrat Yerday, Ethiopian Israeli writer, activist, Ph.D. candidate and teacher, delivered a lecture titled “Between the Local and the Global: Blackness, Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Israel” in the Meyerhoff Library space on Wednesday, November 8th.