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A ‘Discovery’ for Graduate Students

Take a Virtual Tour of Housing Community Opening This Summer
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UMD Launches Inaugural Grand Challenges Graduate Communities

Interdisciplinary Teams of Students to Live, Conduct Research Together in New Discovery House
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UMD to Launch Grand Challenges Graduate Communities

New Graduate Student Housing Will Accelerate Interdisciplinary Research, Mentorship and Professional Impact
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News Articles

  • Testimony on HB 270

    Dean Fetter's testimony on HB 270, submitted February 5, 2019 Written testimony on HB 270

  • My Story: Transformed

    By Matthew Aruch, Janet Chernela, Emily Colón, Katie Murtough, and Alison Thieme

  • New Campus Tradition: Candidacy Tea

    The Graduate School held its first-ever Candidacy Tea for doctoral students last week. The occasion celebrated the achievement to candidacy for over 300 graduate students who reached this milestone between June 1 and November 1 of this year.  The event was attended by about 40 graduate students, their advisors and deans.

  • Invest in Your Future: A Graduate School Success Symposium, January 24, 2019

    Invest in Your Future: A Graduate School Success Symposium January 24, 2019 9 am-4 pm Edward St. John Learning Center Registration opens: December 12th, 2019 Last day to cancel for a full refund: January 18th Deposit: $20 (This event is free, but a deposit is required to register. The Graduate School will initiate the process for returning deposits to all attendees within 5-7 business days after the event.)

  • My Story: I Failed and I Am Here

    By Ndeye Aminata Ndiaye

  • Grad Student Stories Film Project Underway

    There is nothing more compelling than a person's story. And what's more, to hear such narrative through film.  The Graduate School, through a series of short graduate student testimonial films, hopes to capture some of the essential elements of graduate life at Maryland.

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