Welcome GradTerps!
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New Student Orientation 2025
We are so happy to welcome you to your first semester as a GradTerp!
The Graduate School is hosting our campus-wide Graduate School New Student Orientation asynchronously through ELMS-Canvas. Beginning July 1, 2025, anyone with UMD credentials can access the orientations through Open Learning. For all new GradTerps, please click the button below to access the orientations. We ask that students plan to complete the orientation by Friday, August 29.
Be sure to also review our Checklist for New Students!
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Make Friends Early in Your Career
In an essay in Inside Higher Ed, Yi Hao, director of career and professional development at the University of Maryland Graduate School, and Mallory Neil, director of industry partnerships for Clemson University’s College of Science, tout the lifelong benefits of cultivating friendships amid intense study and training.
Communicating the Science of the Stars
Rising Graduate Scholar Jordan Elay explores the hidden universe of small stars. Her work bridges astronomy and community, aiming to inspire and create inclusive spaces in science.
Driving the Research
Rising Graduate Scholar Ann Ramirez combines her childhood dream of becoming a doctor with her passion for math through biomedical engineering. She investigates how engineering solutions can improve the overall immune system function by studying structural changes in lymph nodes.
Our 10,000 GradTerps are part of a broad community of scholars, researchers, practitioners, and teachers who are among the best and the brightest from around the world. As you pursue your graduate degree, we want you to feel connected, engaged, and supported, and encourage you to take full advantage of the breadth of our campus opportunities and resources. We value the creativity, persistence, curiosity, and drive you bring to our campus.
- Dr. Stephen Roth, Associate Provost and Dean, The Graduate School