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UMD Recognized for Innovation in Graduate Education
We have been presented the 2024 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education! The award recognizes promising, innovative proposals to enhance student success and degree completion at the master’s and doctoral levels while promoting inclusiveness.
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