News from around campus
UMD Joins New National Program Welcoming Refugee Students (Maryland Today)
The University of Maryland is among 17 colleges and universities across the United States enrolling refugee students as the inaugural class of the Welcome Corps on Campus.
New Podcast Explores Past, Present & Future of Black Studies
Ashley Newby and John Drabinski Rolled Out “The Black Studies Podcast” this Summer, with $100K in Support from the Mellon Foundation
news story image The Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BIOE) is excited to announce Senior Lecturer Deborah Goldberg (B.S. ’06, Ph.D. ’10) as the new Associate Chair of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB).
Goldberg Appointed Associate Chair of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in BIOE
news story image The Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BIOE) is excited to announce Senior Lecturer Deborah Goldberg (B.S. ’06, Ph.D. ’10) as the new Associate Chair of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB).
Policy Professor Speaks on Advocacy, Civic Engagement and the Power of Women to be Agents of Change
Associate Clinical Professor Brandi Slaughter, program director of The Karabelle Pizzigati Fellows Initiative in Advocacy for Children, Youth and Families, has spent her career fostering systemic change.
USM workers to see raises, safety protocols with new systemwide contract
University System of Maryland workers at nine institutions can now bargain under one contract with the university system after a new union agreement was signed Friday.
On the Record: “It’s really a justice problem as much as it is a public health problem.”
Associate Clinical Professor Julie Gabrielli spoke with WTOP about why city temperatures are so brutal during summer heat waves, the connection between “heat islands” and disinvestment, and how climate change is making suburbs warmer, too.
New Tools for Keeping Immigrant-Owned Shops in Place
Advocates Help Small Businesses Weather Changing Neighborhoods
14 Terps Say ‘Bonjour’ to Summer Olympics, Paralympics (Maryland Today)
Meet UMD Athletes, Coaches Representing Their Countries in Paris
Research by UMD Students Highlights Marginalized Voices