Announcements

Dean Steve Fetter, on behalf of the Graduate School, submitted written testimony on HB 199, for the hearing on the bill before the Maryland House of Delegates Appropriations Committee, held February 7, 2018. Read his full testimony here.

Ala Creciun, Samuel Miner and Roger Bailey are winners of this year's Cosmos

The Graduate School has released its final report from the Spring 2017 Quality of Life Survey. This survey, administered in conjunction with the Office of Graduate Student Life, Graduate Student Government, and the Office of Graduate Student Legal Aid, is the most comprehensive survey of graduate student experience at UMD to date. The full report is available online.

Mike Galczynski has three passions: teaching, baking and traveling. Somehow, he has found a way to satisfy all three through his academic and professional pursuits. As an engineer and science education doctoral student, he teaches innovative engineering courses to undergraduates at UMD, including ones in Greece and Iceland last year.

All of us have had some sort of connection to music.  And concerts have always been the crossroads where different people gather to hear sounds that speak to them.  A kind of organic diversity soup, if you will.

Michelle Beadle Holder (’16, Sociology) is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Missouri. Her research examines the role that religious organizations play in narrowing the gap in health disparities in African American communities.